The quite unbelievable circumstances which led to a Liverpool goal in their defeat to Spurs being incorrectly disallowed for offside have been revealed.
“It’s pretty inexplicable really,” Gary Lineker said.“I don’t know. The one bit of VAR that we have accepted and that we’ve learned we can’t argue about was this – the offside. This is going to put so much doubt into decisions that have gone on beforehand and that are going to go on in the future, because of this. It is a monumental error. It is clearly onside.”“We actually spotted it straight away,” Shearer confirmed. “Within a second or two we said, ‘hang on a minute, that’s not offside’.
“Now, what we’re led to believe is that Darren England, who is the VAR, and Daniel Cook, the assistant VAR, they’ve done everything they should have done in terms of drawing the lines, but instead of saying to the referee, ‘you need to allow a goal because that is not offside’, for some reason he’s had a huge lapse in concentration and instead of saying that he’s actually said ‘check complete’.
“My argument to that would be: what is the point of them having an assistant VAR? Because I’ve worked it out, there’s about 30 to 35 seconds between them making the decision and then allowing kick-off. “He’s had a moment of panic or a lapse in concentration, whatever. It’s a huge error. So that’s the VAR Darren England. The assistant VAR, why can’t he then say, ‘hang on a minute, before you kick-off we need to stop this’, rather than going through this process of saying ‘we’ve made a huge error’?Offering his two cents, Micah Richards added: “It’s time isn’t it, though? Everyone’s talking about VAR taking too long, basically they’ve panicked in the moment, made a mistake and it’s been horrible.
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