Overview
- Aberdeen beat Motherwell 2-0 at Pittodrie to reach a Scottish Cup quarter-final against Dunfermline on 7 March.
- Referee John Beaton showed three red cards, with Liam Gordon’s initial yellow upgraded to a dismissal for DOGSO after a VAR monitor review.
- Former PGMOL chief Keith Hackett said the Priestman and Gordon red cards were incorrect and that VAR intervened without a clear and obvious error.
- Scotland’s John McGinn called Scottish VAR “a mess” and mocked a distant replay angle reported from behind the Richard Donald Stand.
- Motherwell requested an explanation from Willie Collum as the case added to recent contentious yellow-to-red upgrades, and no officiating policy change has been announced.