VAR problems have clouded football for almost four years now, with the 2018 World Cup marking the start of the video revolution in football.
In all fairness, many leagues have implemented it well; noticably the Dutch league, the Bundesliga and Serie A where there are little to no shambles.
The Premier League is arguably the worst league in the world for making VAR blunders – you only have to look at Diogo Jota’s dive for Liverpool this weekend to realise that.
Many in Scotland have still pushed for it, however – despite the drawbacks it may bring.
And after the narrow 2-1 over Alloa at the weekend, where Yosuke Ideguchi and Callum McGregor suffered injuries, Postecoglou berated the non-implementation of VAR.
“Most countries have VAR now and those kind of things don’t escape punishment anymore,” he said to the Glasgow Times.
“That’s the right way to go about it. I don’t think anybody wants to see that [type of tackle], and at the same time we want to sell this game and keep increasing the attention the game here in Scotland gets. We want to showcase it.
“We’ve signed players from the other side of the world, Hearts have signed a couple of Aussies. The game here is getting a global reach here now, and I don’t think people want to tune in and see people getting hurt. They want to tune in and see exciting football, so it falls on everyone to protect the image of the game.
“If you have VAR, those sorts of incidents are dealt with pretty quickly now, and what you see is less and less of them because players know they can’t escape that anymore.
“Here in Scotland we obviously don’t have VAR, but it’s not just referees, because they can sometimes miss things. There are linesmen, fourth officials who are also part of the game, and their role is to protect that environment so we all see what we want to see, and that is football being played.”
With a quarter of the league’s stadiums boasting under 10,000 capacity, it remains to be seen if these clubs will be able to facilitate VAR equipment.
Ultimately, a decision will have to be taken soon if the league is to keep up with other top-flight divisions around the world.
And if Celtic’s game in Alloa is anything to come by, that may be sooner than anticipated.
