Arsenal look to have suffered from one of the worst VAR blunders of the season as video referee Lee Mason simply forgot to draw offside lines when reviewing Ivan Toney’s goal at the Emirates Stadium yesterday.
The Gunners weren’t at their best against Brentford yesterday, but took the lead through Leandro Trossard in the second half as they looked to be doing just enough to pick up another three points.
Still, Toney managed to head home an equaliser for the visitors, giving them a point, though it seems pretty clear that the goal should not have stood.
According to the Daily Mail, PGMOL representative Chris Foy has stated that Mason simply forgot to draw out the offside lines when checking the goal, and if he’d done his job properly, he surely would have seen that it should have been disallowed.
This is quite a remarkable human error to be making at such a high level, and one can sympathise with Arsenal for being absolutely furious about this mistake.
Mikel Arteta’s side remain six points clear at the top of the Premier League table, but they have now taken just one point from the last six available, which is far from ideal when they’re up against their nearest rivals Manchester City next.
Such blunders have been going on for some time.
Now what is the puni
shment for such erring officials?
An apology is of no use.Two points have been stolen.
Such error prone officials shd be banned from
Arsenal games for the season and fined heavily
Why just Arsenal ? Just just get of Very Agrivating (old) Referees
Alltogether ,it’s spoiling the enjoyment Of what used to be called the beautiful game
There comes a time when “errors” of this nature are happening a little too often to be so glibly brushed away.
This is the same VAR ref who doggedly trawled backwards through the play to find an insignificant “foul” to deny Martenelli’s goal at OT.
There are two possible reasons for these “errors”:
1. The refs don’t like VAR and want to discredit it because it shows them up.
2. The added bonus of being able to use the discrediting exercise to influence the game to favour or hinder specific teams (which is quite possibly one of the reasons they want to get rid of VAR) in the first place.
Unless very public and stern action is taken we are going to have to assume that this is indeed deliberate and sanctioned by the PGMOL rather than (yet another) “error”.
It was also interesting to note the commentators complaining at a foul being given against Toney when he was in a race to break past Saliba and was grabbing Saliba’s jersey, thus holding him back (clearly visible on the live and replays), and then pulled him by the shoulder, which caused him to lose his footing and go down.
When Saliba went down they claimed it wasn’t a foul and Saliba went down too easily.
This is the problem with English commentators, they are very clearly biased and then claim outright fouls aren’t actually fouls when they go against their own agendas.
I would challenge either of those two chops commentating on sky yesterday to stay on their feet and maintain the advantage in position Saliba had in the same circumstances.
The “quality” of refereeing and commentary in the UK is more than just a little dubious a lot of the time.
And I have noticed this in other games not involving or affecting Arsenal, there are very definitely clear favourites and agendas at play.
We always hear about how the English game isn’t “dirty” like other leagues, but personally I think people are just fooling themselves.
Thus is not a var blunder.Its deliberately done to stop
Arsenal winning the epl.
It had been going on sincre Wengers to stop the gunnerz challenging the dominance of red faced and now MC
Why do we have to have roy kean doing man utd games shearer doing Newcastle games,, theres always a connection beteween commentary pundits and teams playing,, so theres always gonna be contentions and biased opinions,,, have neutral commentators for each game then youll have less crying faced explayers moaning that the officials arent officiating properly,,but with incidents like this ppl need sacked, not just dropped down the pecking order to lower leagues but kicked out the game altogether for cheating
Mason is from Greater Manchester and was also responsible for the error in Man United v Arsenal where Martinelli goal was incorrectly ruled out. Effectively cost Arsenal 5 points and favoured City & United.
The ref board
shd sack the var team at the matchez where glaring errors were made.
The var team are punishing Arsenal while making sure MC can catch up and retain the title
If this isnt a conspiracy then tell me otherwise