FANS are demanding a replay of Tottenham vs Liverpool after the VAR Darren England’s disasterclass.
On-field officials incorrectly ruled out a Luis Diaz strike for offside.
VAR then somehow failed to intervene.
SunSport understands England clearly saw Diaz was ONSIDE but forgot what the on-field decision was.
He then accidentally gave the “check complete” signal believing he was AWARDING Diaz’s goal when, in fact, he was allowing play to continue at 0-0.
The referee organisation admitted “significant human error”, with Liverpool fans enraged
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Many supporters feel the apology is not good enough and they want the match to be replayed instead.
One supporter reacted to the statement saying: “Game should be replayed. VAR to make sure there are no mistakes made in these games and they failed in giving a correct decision.”
Another added: “I have very mixed feelings about what should happen with the dreadful refereeing decisions in the Tottenham-Liverpool match.
“On hand I think the match should be replayed, too many game changing errors.
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“If it was replayed I’d be outraged because I know that wouldn’t happen with us.”
A third said: “Game should actually be replayed IMO.”
To make matters worse for Liverpool Curtis Jones was controversially sent off, with Gary Neville and Jamie Redknapp both suggesting he was unfortunate to receive a red card after his foot slipped over the ball.
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The PGMOL apologised for their mistake with a statement after the match.
It read: “PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool.
“The goal by Luis Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials.
“This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.
“PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.
“PGMOL will immediately be contacting Liverpool at the conclusion of the fixture to acknowledge the error.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
