The guidance received from VAR headquarters was that the proximity of Fernandez to Yengi and the positioning of the Rangers defender’s arm, meant that it was not deemed a punishable hand ball. <\/p>\n
However, the replays seemed to show Fernandez’s arm move towards the ball, a fact which fuelled much of Livingston’s anger.<\/p>\n
Add in the fact that Hardie was not even asked to come and look at the incident heightened that feeling. <\/p>\n
“I’ve not had an explanation,” Martindale said. “I’d argue his arm is not in a natural position but he makes a movement towards the ball, and the ball’s going on target.<\/p>\n
“When we’re spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on technology to get big decisions right in games, it’s disappointing. <\/p>\n
“It’s got to be the people using the technology, rather than the technology, I would imagine”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guidance received from VAR headquarters was that the proximity of Fernandez to Yengi and the positioning of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-154518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}