The person in charge of the referees of Premier League, Howard Webbwas disappointed by the fact that VAR did not intervene when the captain of Manchester United, Bruno Fernandeswas sent off in the final 3-0 defeat against Tottenham Hotspur.
Fernandes He saw red in the 42nd minute for a tackle James Maddison in Old Trafford last month, but then avoided a three-game suspension after the United successfully appealed.
“We released the audio. You can hear the assistant referee – who had a good view of the play – saying, ‘it looks awful, 100% red to me,'” Webb said on the Stick to Football podcast.
“From his angle it looked like it, because it looked like the studs went in. But then there was another angle that was shown on the replay in sports in the sky. “I immediately said to myself: ‘that will be an annulment, but it won’t be,'” he added.
“I’m frustrated that we didn’t intervene to put it right because, in my opinion, the decision was clearly wrong and he didn’t nail the blocks. If he had, it would have been a red card,” he said.
He VAR It was introduced in 2019 to help field officials with key match decisions, but the technology has been at the center of controversy with complaints ranging from its extensive testing to delays that can last several minutes.
The teams voted to keep the VAR in June despite massive criticism of last season’s technology-assisted officiating system.
Webb already stated the VAR he made fewer mistakes this season.
“We have an independent panel made up of former players, who judge every decision every week, and according to the panel, which is independent of us (PGMOL), there were only two mistakes by VAR this season, compared to 10 during the same period last year,” he added.
Source: La Verdad
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