Spain v Scotland

Well it seems to me that the functionality of VAR is just not fit for purpose.
First you get the ridiculous decision to allow Rangers first goal against us, then you get the debacle in the Spurs v Liverpool game, then the failure to send off the City player against Arsenal and now you get VAR declaring a foul on the keeper ( which there wasn’t - if there was Simon and his team mates would have gone berserk ) then 10 minutes later declaring it was actually offside. Now, let’s say he was offside, he didn’t touch the ball so it then becomes a case of “did he interfere with the keeper’s chance to save it?” - if that’s a yes, then why did Simon not claim it? The fact of the matter is that the entire Spanish team accepted the on-field decision passively because they knew it was a good goal, they only began to be animated when the ref headed for the screen… and if it was an offside decision, why did he need to go to the screen? They never do that. If it was an offside decision why did he point for a free kick rather than raise his arm and signal a line to indicate offside?

How did the keeper get away with cleaning out McGinn?
How did Laporte get away with multiple offences?

The entire refereeing display should be called into question because of how one sided his decisions were.

Scotland put in very good defensive performance & scored an outstanding goal which would have changed the game completely if it had been allowed.

In the end Spain scored twice after the scare of the disallowed goal because they upped the tempo and scored a good goal and then capitalised on an unfortunate slip; but if our goal had stood they may not have recovered.

So on to Norway v Spain & I would love to see it end all square as that would give us a great chance of winning the group.

You can accept defeat when you play badly but not when you are robbed by the officials. It was an excellent goal which was practically unsaveable.
But I am now an avid Spanish supporter for their next game.

The ref was giving shite decisions against Scotland from the off, having a word with Dykes for a nothing incident, then booking him for sod all, when it was their player jumping into him. Also gave a foul against Robertson when the keeper fell onto him, injuring him, so no surprise he deemed Hendry to be interfering with play after being in an offside position.

Perfectly good goal that the keeper had no chance of saving, so should have stood.

I hope Norway draw with Spain, got confidence we'll qualify anyway, but want to win the group.

I'm beginning to get a wee niggly feeling that the stars will combine to make sure that we fail to qualify. Can't help it. It's Scotland.

Its the scepticism within us Orco.It surfaces now and again.Surely not this time though.Robbed the other night by corrupt and inept officialdom again..

orco wrote:I'm beginning to get a wee niggly feeling that the stars will combine to make sure that we fail to qualify. Can't help it. It's Scotland.

Aye after years of failure, it's hard to shake off that feeling of impending doom. We've got ourselves in such a great position after 5 straight wins, it seems harder to fail than to qualify now. Like Livi being 4th and only needing one more win to secure a top 6 spot last season.

Liviforever wrote:The ref was giving shite decisions against Scotland from the off, having a word with Dykes for a nothing incident, then booking him for sod all, when it was their player jumping into him. Also gave a foul against Robertson when the keeper fell onto him, injuring him, so no surprise he deemed Hendry to be interfering with play after being in an offside position.

Perfectly good goal that the keeper had no chance of saving, so should have stood.

I hope Norway draw with Spain, got confidence we'll qualify anyway, but want to win the group.

Agree with all of that

1-0 to Spain v Norway, ah well looks like we'll qualify in 2nd place, unless Spain fecks up somehow.

When the draw was made second to Spain would have been an outstanding outcome given Haaland’s goal record; I don’t think anyone thought we’d run them this close though and who knows what might have been if the officials hadn’t made the ridiculous decision to disallow McTominay’s wonderstrike free kick.

As Steve Clark said,regardless of last nights result,albeit confirming our place in Germany. We've earned the right to qualify with those five wins previously. Well done to the squad and hopefully do ourselves justice over there.Theve deserved the chance to do so.????????????????????????.

We're on the road with Stevie's armyyyyy
We're all going to Germanyyyyy
We'll really shake them up when we win the Euro's cup
Cause Scotland is the greatest football team