"I did the interview after the game and someone asked me if we were going to appeal it and I thought I'm really not sure about it, the appeals in this day and age are seemingly worthless. But when I get the info back from the club at what has been said in VAR I thought yeah, absolutely, because the referee has seen the incident, it's not like he hasn't seen it."
"All I'm saying is that VAR, in time, we won't need a referee. VAR will do it for them from wherever they're doing it from because that's what they do. They've asked the referee to go over something that he's actually seen. He's seen it, it's not like he's missed the incident."
"Of course they are. It's such a nonsense. It's fine if they've missed something dramatic and it constitutes a clear error, but that's not what's happening here. The referee saw it, made a decision, and VAR forced him to change his mind."
Martin O'Neill expressed strong criticism of VAR following Celtic's failed appeal of Auston Trusty's red card against Hibernian. O'Neill described the Scottish FA appeals process as worthless and VAR as debilitating for referees. He argued that VAR officials are inappropriately intervening to overturn decisions that the on-pitch referee has already witnessed and assessed. In Trusty's case, the referee had seen the incident and decided it warranted only a warning, but VAR intervened and forced the referee to change his decision, resulting in a red card. O'Neill contends this represents VAR officials re-refereeing matches rather than correcting clear errors, ultimately undermining the authority and effectiveness of on-pitch officials.
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