Kris Boyd has demanded Scottish football implement VAR and blasted the punditry culture around refereeing.

The Rangers legend rounded on unnamed pundits he feels play to the gallery and refuse to call out "blatant" decisions that go for their club.

And Boyd also had Celtic chairman Ian Bankier in his sights after he told the last AGM there were "deep concerns" within the club over refereeing in Scotland.

He told the Scottish Sun: "It’s time for the clubs to put their petty bickering aside and sing from the same hymn sheet on this.

"Of course, it cannot eliminate every single mistake in football but it is 100 times better than what we have at the moment. I can guarantee you all our refs would want it installed.

"Until you have all the tools you cannot be taken seriously.

"And Uefa could do a lot worse than make it compulsory for all national leagues to have VAR if they want to compete in their competitions.

"If not, then it is not really a level playing field.

"You run the risk of teams qualifying for Europe essentially by default.

"Refs have always been under enormous pressure in Scotland and it doesn’t help when you have high-profile figures making their life even more difficult.

"Celtic chairman Ian Bankier played to the crowd when lambasting officials at the recent AGM.

"Having been a big noise in the whisky industry I’m sure Bankier would have had ‘deep concerns’ if his firms were operating without the best of equipment.

"VAR should be a vital ingredient in Scottish football just like malted barley in a single malt.

"There’s also certain pundits who fail to call out blatant wrong decisions that benefit their team just to appease the masses watching on club television.

"Referees are viewed as an easy target and if we keep going at this rate they will be hounded out of the game.

"That should not be happening and it certainly doesn’t help when people in powerful positions encourage a pile on."