Rangers, who were refused a penalty at Celtic Park, have demanded that the SFA make the VAR audio from the match public.

Before the half, Alistair Johnston and Rangers striker Abdallah Sima got into a struggle inside the area, and Johnston seemed to put the ball out of play with his hand. While Willie Collum’s VAR room supported the official and originally seemed to reject charges of a handball, referee Nick Walsh did not point to the spot. Pundits Chris Boyd, Neil Lennon, and James McFadden would argue on Sky during the halftime break that the Celtic star ought to have been sent off for a handball.

Rangers, in the opinion of former SFA referee Steve Conroy, were denied a clear penalty during the moment. Conroy asserted that when looking for a penalty, VAR cannot intervene in an offside scenario.”Rangers have been robbed of the chance to level the game with a penalty kick,” Conroy said on Sports Lens. It was obviously a penalty.Offside doesn’t matter. Only in the event of a result, such as a goal, can VAR check for offside. It wasn’t there.Willie Collum is present to determine if a hand ball occurred or not.The fact that the game was restarted with a goal kick rather than an indirect free kick, as would have happened if the offside had been called, is the telling circumstance.