Referees in the Premier League made six incorrect VAR interventions before the winter break for the World Cup, according to an independent panel.
The panel, made up of three former players and a representative from the Premier League and PGMOL, reports back to clubs on which key match incidents across a weekend have included a mistake – one of which includes Newcastle United’s disallowed goal against Crystal Palace back in early September.
If you had managed to forget about the injustice suffered at the hands of Michael Salisbury, the ‘error’ that drew the referee to the VAR monitor it was as clear and obvious as your vision through the thick fog of the Tyne.
Kieran Trippier’s brilliant delivery from a deep free-kick to the far post was met by Sven Botman who nodded it back across goal, with Joe Willock being shoved in the back by Tyrick Mitchell before the defender turned it into his own goal.
However, somehow after going to the monitor, Salisbury deemed that Willock had fouled Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita following the Mitchell push and disallowed the goal – leaving the game to finish nils apiece, and Newcastle two points to the deficit.
PGMOL followed with an apology shortly after for their error, so it is perhaps of little surprise that this instance is among five others listed as mistakes made by officials so far this season.
The six ‘game-changing’ incidents VAR got wrong can be seen below:
Is there only me that thinks 6 is a lot of mistakes in only half a season … especially when the technology was introduced to reduce the number of mistakes in the first place.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy: these are only the most obvious errors. There are many more when they give the goalie the benefit of the doubt even when they crash into the forward.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
There were also six errors of non intervention so that’s 12 acknowledged clear errors. That’s not the tech it’s the cr4p application of it by officials
They’re already caveating it with the number of errors is low against the amount of incidents reviewed🫣🙄
I think that misses the point that with properly educated officials and consistent guidance var should actually complement the game. They could also allow regular tweaking to rules where it’s obvious var implementation is causing problems and it could be easily applied to pick up on diving
GoWest!Mag(Quote)
“nils apiece”?
Do you also say “ones apiece”, and “twos apiece”?
Freddd(Quote)