Dundee United to request SPFL & SFA talks on VAR
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‘Main throws himself down. It boils my blood’
Dundee United are seeking an urgent meeting with Scottish Premiership clubs, the Scottish FA and referees' representatives to discuss VAR.
United are angry with the penalty award against them in Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to St Mirren.
The club has already contacted Crawford Allan, the SFA's head of referee's operations, asking for an explanation.
And the league's bottom club want the SPFL to facilitate a wider conversation on the implementation of VAR.
United are in the process of submitting their request in writing, citing inconsistencies and a lack of clarity over decisions.
Referee Craig Napier gave St Mirren a penalty when striker Curtis Main went down under a challenge from Loick Ayina, with a lengthy delay for VAR checks and Napier not being asked to review the incident on the pitch-side monitor.
It left Jim Goodwin exasperated, with the United manager saying: "The longer the VAR check goes on, the more you think they won't give it.
"Clearly there isn't enough contact there to make it obvious.
"I have seen two angles and I am struggling to see anything. It's not a penalty. To lose that goal in that manner is extremely hard to take."
BBC Sportscene pundit Richard Foster described the penalty as "a nonsense", saying "Main just throws himself to the ground, if there's any contact, it's minimal".
The Tannadice club has twice appealed against VAR-related red cards this season, succeeding in getting Tony Watt's dismissal overturned, but failing to do the same with Ryan Edwards.
BBC Scotland has approached the SFA and SPFL for comment.
Stats back up VAR but concern growing - analysis
Chris McLaughlin, sports news correspondent, BBC Scotland
Before VAR was implemented, the head of the SFA, Ian Maxwell, said it could take three months to properly bed in. That now seems like a conservative prediction.
The governing body has always defended VAR, and will continue to do so publicly, but there is growing concern about some errors and the communication around how other decisions are reached. I am told this is a "work in progress". What they continue to have faith in, are the numbers. Clubs are regularly updated with stats showing the effectiveness of VAR. As it stands, the SFA say around 98% of the refereeing decisions made, post VAR implementation, are correct - that's compared to 92% pre VAR.
Stats are never going to appease clubs who are on the wrong end of the 2% margin, though. No Scottish club has yet called for a total end to VAR - everyone knows the genie isn't going back into the bottle, but could those who rubbed the lamp be ready to admit that VAR isn't quite everything they had wished for?
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