VAR IS OUT OF CONTROL

O'Neill: Game's re-refereed

- BY ANTHONY BROWN

A RILED Martin O'Neill reckons VAR is “re-refereeing” games following the decision to red card Auston Trusty after 10-man Celtic were pegged back by Premiership leaders Hearts in an exhilarating 2-2 draw at Tynecastle yesterday afternoon.

In a match the defending champions could not afford to lose, they led twice through an early Benjamin Nygren free-kick and a Yang Hyun-jun tap-in just after the hour. But Hearts hit back each time through Stuart Findlay early in the second half and then in the 87th minute when Claudio Braga fired home.

Trusty was sent off with Celtic leading 2-1 in the 77th minute after being deemed to have denied Landry Kabore a goalscoring opportunity following a VAR intervention, having initially been shown a yellow card by referee Steven McLean.