Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Aberdeen fan view: Dons make the most of marginal gains

Tempers flared between players during the match as well. Image: SNS.
Tempers flared between players during the match as well. Image: SNS.

David Marshall is nearing the end of his playing days, and might be starting to think about his onward job options.

For a short while last night, he may have been pondering how quickly he could train as an electrician and disrupt the power supply to Pittodrie’s VAR system.

In the defining moment of Marshall’s career, he will have felt like he waited seven minutes to discover whether he would be officially credited with a pivotal penalty save. Here, in a less memorable chapter, he literally did.

The world seemed to be against the goalkeeper in that period, with a pair of marginal calls which would have gone his way a few weeks ago. Whilst there was little doubt about the second, Marshall departing his line noticeably earlier than in Belgrade, he was arguably unfortunate in the first place to concede a penalty which Duk was clearly hoping to obtain.

Aberdeen’s Bojan Miovski celebrates after making it 2-0 against Hibs.

The referee having decided in real time that contact was either absent or inconsequential, the evidence of VAR did not look to be clearly and obviously contrary. That referees appear to be shown such brief snippets of the point of action, taken out of context of the phase of play, has the potential to mislead them – such as the strange situation last week where Dundee United‘s Tony Watt was shown a delayed red card on the ref’s viewing of a replay, then reprieved on the appeal tribunal watching an expanded version of the same clip.

If this penalty was contentious though, Aberdeen need make no apology to Hibs for its catalysing impact on the match.

Jim Goodwin was not on the touchline when David Munro trotted over to check the screen but he will have been looking down upon it all from his temporarily lofty perch with a wry grin.

Conversation