RAGING David Moyes claimed VAR official Simon Hooper needs to “go to Specsavers”.
And the West Ham boss said it was all “ridiculous” referee Peter Bankes’ fault that West Ham drew 1-1 at Southampton.
Moyes was left seething at Romain Perraud’s opener for Saints after Bankes collided with Jarrod Bowen and stopped him from making a tackle.
Asked whether West Ham should have won against Southampton, Moyes said: “The real reason is the referee gets in the way of the ability for us to defend.
“The ball comes out and Jarrod Bowen goes to get the ball and the referee blocks Bowen from getting to it and the boy scores from it. Ridiculous, it really is.
“Wait until you see the angles and the pictures and you will soon see how terrible it is that he allows it to go on.
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“Maybe you just have to say that the referee was in a really bad position.
“The referee’s right in his line. Jarrod can’t round the referee to get the ball.”
Skipper Declan Rice added: “The ref was stood right in the way, but he didn’t touch the ball, so that’s why he didn’t give it. It is one of them.
“The ref is saying he has not done anything wrong. It is a split-second decision and they have scored a goal.”
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Later, both Bankes and Hooper missed a judo-style foul on Tomas Soucek at a corner, with Moyes suggesting the VAR needed his eyes tested.
Moyes added: “Whoever was on VAR today needs to go to Specsavers.
“The penalty kick on Soucek is a judo move by the player who is marking him.
“There must be new rules in football, which are you can grab them right around the waist and you can hold them.
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“Then you can put them in a judo move, where you slam them down.
“He gets him and throws him right down, it’s unreal. It’s not the referee, it is VAR.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
