Sky Sports will offer live coverage of the Scottish Premiership, with up to 60 games available on the home of Scottish football and four matches live on the opening weekend, including Motherwell vs Rangers, Falkirk vs Dundee Utd, Celtic vs St Mirren and Hearts vs Aberdeen
By Luke Shanley & Alison Conroy
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Scottish FA head of refereeing Willie Collum has told Sky Sports he is “confident” the officials will not be the story of the new season.
The former category one referee, who is preparing for his second season in the post, has spent the summer visiting all 12 Scottish Premiership clubs as well as many in the lower leagues of the SPFL.
Collum’s aim when he replaced Crawford Allan in July 2024 was to improve “the operation and delivery of VAR” and help “alleviate the unsustainable burden” on officials.
He introduced a VAR review show last season to give more transparency and admitted mistakes were made, but he believes there has been real progress.
“I think everybody would agree there’s always going to be exceptions, but particularly in handball we made good ground, the 46-year-old toldSky Sports News.
“I said a year ago at this time we would come to a more football understanding of handball and I think there’s been less controversial handballs given.
“You will still get outliers, that’ll happen. They’ll happen again this season and we need to deal with them as we go, but we definitely want a more consistent approach.
Source: Skysports
