Liverpool suffered their first defeat of the season against Spurs yesterday but were on the receiving end of some dreadful decisions from the officials.
Despite being down to 10 men Luis Diaz fired Jurgen Klopp’s side ahead with a sublime finish only for the goal to bizarrely be ruled out for offside.
Our No. 7 was quite clearly onside but VAR Darren England failed to intervene and award the goal.
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Ange Postecoglou’s side would go on to pick up all three points with a 2-1 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and it didn’t take long after the full-time whistle for the PGMOL to release a statement acknowledging that a mistake had been made.
And while the Sky Sports team reviewed the statement in the aftermath of last night’s game Gary Neville could not believe what he was hearing.
The former Manchester United man turned pundit could be heard constantly saying ‘oh no’ as presenter Kelly Cates read through the statement.
Credit to Neville for highlighting how poor the decision was and you can check a video below via (originating from Sky Sports) @Watch_LFC on X:
Gary Neville’s “oh no’s” in this are honestly comedy gold 😂
Perfectly timed pic.twitter.com/4zZMPAhYPM
— Watch LFC (@Watch_LFC) September 30, 2023
I’m not just saying this as an Arsenal fan that detests Sp**s, but the only way to perfect VAR, is when something outrageous like this happens and an investigation PROVES that a team has been denied a legitimate goal, then the PGMOL should firstly APOLOGISE, award the goal, amend the result and the table accordingly. BUT ONLY where PGMOL voluntarily acknowledge an error, otherwise it would become a free-for-all. If this cannot be done, SCRAP VAR because you cant have NUMPTY’s using technology like this. For some reason, the officials in Rugby are more level headed that those in football. Maybe the Premier League should employ Rugby officials to use VAR. What’s more, the on field referee should not be under pressure to review their own decision. The VAR official should be the deciding official, again, as in Rugby. The reason for this is perfectly clear; in the heat of the moment, the on-field official may either miss something or THINK they’ve seen something which is in their own words, “not factual”!