‘Beyond terrible’: Pundits slam the VAR horror show
IT’S beyond terrible. Players, managers and football clubs are being and have been let down. It’s been a terrible day. They’re being let down by incidents like that. It’s really awful, you work hard all week to put into practice what you’re doing on the training ground and then you’re let down by that. It’s not right.
Mike Riley wasn’t up to the job, they’ve got rid of him — though he’s still in a job until Howard Webb comes in. He’s got a big job on his hands. There have been far, far too many errors. VAR is not the problem, it’s the people that are running it that are the problem.
Eddie Howe took it too well. You’ve seen the reaction with David Moyes, he was angry.
DANNY MURPHY
IT’S actually unbelievable, it’s ridiculous. It’s time to get some ex-pros involved, I don’t understand the reluctance to do it. It seems nonsensical not to, we’ve played the game and we understand it.
It helps if managers get angry, because it puts referees on alert and they don’t want to upset you — ask Sir Alex Ferguson.
MICHAEL OWEN
IF that is a foul by Jarrod Bowen, it’s a worrying day for football.
KEITH HACKETT
VAR Lee Mason was at the centre of the controversy in the Leeds United game on Saturday. Yesterday he was back to be VAR for the Man Utd v Arsenal game. PGMOL, send him home and get a replacement in. In business we would ask: is he fit for purpose?
GARY LINEKER
I SAY this as a Leicester fan: these VAR decisions are sucking the life and joy out of the game.