Bruce: How VAR do we have to go?
an absolute nonsense that Callum’s goal was ruled out for handball because it wasn’t deliberate.
“It isn’t VAR that’s the problem. It is the fact that it was brought in to correct clear and obvious mistakes and everything is being done by the letter of the law. It is ruining the game as a spectacle and it is something that has to be addressed.
“I am sitting here thinking we’ve scored two goals in the last minute and should have won 2-1. That’s me probably being a bit greedy, but VAR is killing the game.”
Kop boss Jurgen Klopp bemoaned his team’s failure to take their chances and Liverpool now face a fight to finish in the top four.
Fought
Klopp said: “We kept them alive by missing our chances and even when we got our first bit of luck with VAR we couldn’t even take that present.
“Newcastle fought for it and we got nothing pretty much.
“If you deserve, you deserve it. Today I didn’t see us deserve to be playing in the Champions League next year.”
■ THE Premier League will spearhead a co-ordinated blanket social media blackout against the rise in online racial abuse.
And they will be joined by the likes of the FA, EFL, Women’s Super League, PFA, LMA and Kick It Out in a show of force.
They will all unite for a boycott from 3pm on April 30 to 11.59pm on May 3.
The action will ramp up pressure on social media firms – including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – to clean up.
Premier League chief executive
Richard Masters said: “Racist behaviour of any form is unacceptable. The appalling abuse we are seeing players receive on social media platforms cannot be allowed to continue.”