‘He hates Liverpool’: Many Reds on Twitter go to town on ridiculous Martin Atkinson, whose VAR room madness comes a fortnight after Old Trafford shambles

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Premier League referee Martin Atkinson has had an absolute shocker as Liverpool took on Aston Villa.

Bobby Firmino thought he had pulled the Reds level with the hosts, half an hour into the game, but then Jon Moss ruled the goal out.

VAR (Atkinson) was consulted after the ruling, but it was decided that the Brazilian was offside – the only problem is that he wasn’t!

Bobby’s arm was in an offside position, but the offside rule only applies to parts of the body that you can use to score a goal – and using an arm is obviously hand ball!

Tyrone Mings’ knee is clearly keeping the forward on side, in my opinion anyway. Take a look at the incident below:

Thing is, VAR is meant to remedy these situations – referees should be able to go to officials and get a considered response, but Atkinson got it all wrong.

Villa had taken the lead against the Reds with an early goal through Mahmoud Hassan, also known as Trezeguet, after a mix up in the Reds’ defence.

VAR was consulted for their goal, and it was given, but fans in the stadium sang “f*ck VAR” shortly after both decisions in protest.

Take a look at how supporters on social media reacted to Bobby’s goal being ruled out:

https://twitter.com/FootballFunnnys/status/1190653776497201153?s=19

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