WE GOT BIG VAR CALLS BADLY WRONG, ADMIT TOP REFS

THE Premier League’s refereeing body have admitted they got two major calls wrong on a weekend of madness that saw VAR reviews blight the action on the field. The top flight will investigate incidents that saw seemingly good goals chalked off for West Ham and Newcastle, while PGMOL are understood to have acknowledged privately that the VAR interventions to disallow the goals were incorrect. The refereeing body will cooperate with the Premier League after their request to review the two incidents, and use them to educate officials. West Ham manager David Moyes, who has avoided punishment from the FA for his post-match criticism, described the decision to disallow Maxwel Cornet’s late equaliser at Chelsea as ‘scandalous’ and ‘rotten’. Referee Andy Madley originally gave the goal, then performed a U-turn after being sent to his pitch-side monitor by VAR Jarred Gillett to study Jarrod Bowen’s coming-together with Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy. Sharing Moyes’s fury after their 2-1 defeat, West Ham midfielder Declan Rice said it was ‘up there with one of the worst VAR decisions made since it’s come into the game’.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe was not as scathing as Moyes or Rice after his team’s potential winner, via a Tyrick Mitchell own goal, was ruled out for a foul by Joe Willock on Crystal Palace

goalkeeper Vicente Guaita. Replays