Celtic and Rangers set for ‘unfair’ treatment as ‘bizarre’ development confirmed – pundit
Danny Mills has claimed it is “bizarre” Celtic and Rangers’ Scottish Premiership games will have VAR after the World Cup later this year.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the ex-Premier League and England defender insisted it is unfair for the technology to be introduced midway through the season.
BBC Sport reported on Tuesday (19 April) that all but one of the SPFL clubs voted in favour of introducing VAR.
It will be launched when the league resumes following the conclusion of the World Cup in Qatar in December.
The SPFL also hopes to use the system for the League Cup semi-finals and final in January and February 2023.
“It’s good as long as the people running it are working it properly,” Mills told Football Insider correspondent Connor Whitley.
“I find it bizarre that it’s coming in mid-season. People are going to say ‘Actually when we played you last time that should have been a penalty’. Is that fair? Possibly not is the answer.
“If you’re going to wait until after the World Cup why not just wait until the following season?
“Have it running in the background after Christmas. Don’t actually use it but allow the referees to be mic’d up and get together and talk about when they would want it to come in.
“They can use it as a learning period. Watching games together, thinking about decisions they are going to make and how that works. Surely that would be better.
“You’re effectively changing the laws of the game halfway through the season.”
In other news, Kieran Maguire has saluted a ‘successful experiment’ after a Rangers-Celtic agreement is reached