{"id":91349,"date":"2025-05-11T00:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91349\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:14:13","slug":"fuming-gerry-mcculloch-explains-bizarre-var-check-at-nicolas-kuhns-celtic-equaliser-vs-hibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91349\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuming Gerry McCulloch explains bizarre VAR check at Nicolas Kuhn’s Celtic equaliser vs Hibs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celtic\u2019s win over Hibs was, eventually, a fairly comfortable affair.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite going behind to a shock Hibs first half opener, Brendan Rodgers\u2019<\/a> side battled back with ease late on in the first 45 minutes to go in at the break 2-1 ahead.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Kuhn<\/a> and Adam Idah combined to put Celtic ahead and both players were also involved in the Hoops\u2019 equaliser.<\/p>\n

However, VAR seemed determined to find something wrong with Celtic\u2019s equaliser as the video referee made a lengthy check on Kuhn\u2019s goal which held up play resuming for a number of minutes.<\/p>\n

And reacting at half-time, Celtic TV\u2019s Gerry McCulloch was raging as he revealed the real reason VAR spent an age assessing Kuhn\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesVAR blasted for \u2018trying to find something\u2019 wrong with Celtic equaliser vs Hibs<\/p>\n

VAR<\/a> is not without its critics and more often than not it creates controversy where there needs to be none.<\/p>\n

And at Celtic Park today, McCulloch blasted the refereeing technology for its lengthy check on a goal that really didn\u2019t deserve the amount of time it took to come the conclusion that Kuhn scored a legitimate goal.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Celtic TV<\/a>, McCulloch fumed, \u201cThat stoppage was incredible. I mean, you can understand VAR, when it\u2019s to the benefit when it picks up things that referees miss. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut at no point in that move, would anybody think there was any any issue with that goal, whether it was offside or interference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to find something! Apparently they were looking for interference at the attacking phase of play.\u201d<\/p>\n

VAR has plenty of work left to improve after another Celtic Park incident<\/p>\n

Thankfully, VAR didn\u2019t affect today\u2019s result but there has been plenty of controversy surrounding the technology this season.<\/p>\n

Against St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup, VAR picked up strange comments about Celtic striker Adam Idah<\/a> after the match referee appeared to accuse the Irishman of trying to buy a foul.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget the incredible decision to chalk off a goal VAR made the last time Celtic faced Hibs.<\/p>\n

The SFA have plenty work left to do to improve the technology and the length of time it takes to check decisions should be one of them.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic\u2019s win over Hibs was, eventually, a fairly comfortable affair. Despite going behind to a shock Hibs first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[43224,94,43225,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-celtic-tv","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nicolas-kuhn","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486317183014393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}