Premier League legend Alan Shearer has given his opinion on Brentford’s goal against Arsenal, which he believes should have been ruled out.
The Gunners took the lead through Leandro Trossard as they looked to beat a very stubborn Brentford side.
However, the Bees had other ideas and ensured they got at least one goal back through Ivan Toney.
It was enough to help Thomas Frank’s side maintain their league-unbeaten run, but after the game, everyone began to question the strike, even though there was a lengthy VAR check for errors.
Shearer suggests the check took too long and the VAR panicked. The ex-striker said on the BBC:
“Lee Mason, in VAR, he has panicked. He is thinking he has used too much time on that thing looking at it.
“He hasn’t spotted that, and he certainly hasn’t spotted the big error which was the second header from where the goal came from. Awful error.”
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It is sad that we are at the wrong end of a bad decision, as it has been for most of the time and we have to move on.
Dwelling on what could have been is pointless and we must now show we have the character required to be champions by beating Manchester City in our next fixture, but it will not be an easy game, with the champions now confident they could overtake us.
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I’m curious. If the PL was so inclined, could they go out and sign the top referees in the world? Or is it required that domestic leagues have home- grown officials?
Isn’t there an Aussie reffing in the PL now? A fairly thin skinned one if yesterday’s second yellow to Lemina is anything to go by.
It’s a good question.
A reason often put forward for the standard of refereeing in the UK is that the abuse they suffer at lower levels of the game is so bad that most give up before they reach a senior level.
Perhaps other countries don’t have that problem so there may a pool of talented top-level refs waitingt to be tapped into.
On the other hand, looking at the standard of refs in the WC etc, perhaps some countries have bigger problems than the UK!
IDKWIC, while referering, the abuse was bad and I’m going back over 30 years ago.
I have been spat on, challenged about my parents, threatened with violence during and after a game and gave it up when my daughter got involved with one of these morons.
I did get the backing of the local football association and some of them were banned from the game.
But to the PL referees to grass root refereeing is like chalk and cheese and they are world’s apart…. and your right in assuming that many of them drop out of the game.
My article on var will be a little late, because I’m travelling down for the game tomorrow and won’t get back until Thursday evening… but it will be done.
But to compare…!!
Some form of radical changes necessary, it is happening too often now for my liking.
There is no way why such blatant errors should be happening every week, even with the extended time the official still gets it wrong.
Change the rules to assist the officials, make it less technical or abandoned VAR totally.
Too much stress and embarrassment, Lampard once said even his three year old daughter at home could get certain decision right.
VAR got it wrong. But no VAR and the goal still would have stood.
VAR didn’t get it wrong – the VAR ref advised wrongly. The on-field ref incorrectly failed to overrule him (he has the final decision, as always).
But… with VAR, it should’ve been chalked off. VAR gave them a chance to get it right. They failed to take advantage of the benefits of the technology.
Only in football are these bad decisions so frequent. The human officials in other sports get it right, as a team.
You are telling me something that i have already said. VAR got it wrong and that was because of human error, we know. I just shortened it, to make a point. If VAR was invented the goal would still have stood.
Sorry, VAR NOT invented.
you are getting it wrong. the VAR ref ignored the facts on purpose. he is a crook, not a bumbling idiot.
Drawing the line to determine offsides is the only purpose of the line, so why did they not use it?
Line judge does not have line..
Hmmm. corruption me thinks
Is it corruption. There is no doubt about that. Corrupt Officials making bad decisions on purpose.
The season Liverpool won the league, they were supported by bad officiating.
Had Mason followed the proper order of review (latest action first then followed by earlier action), he would not have put himself in a situation of thinking he had used too much time.
If Mason had reviewed Norgaard’s assist (latest action) first and found him offside, it would be irrelevant to review Pinnock’s interference (earlier action), thereby saving 3 mins on doing something totally irrelevant. It would have helped to reduce his workload and time pressure. Perhaps with less to focus on, he would not have panicked
100% correct! And also giving back 3 mins of football to the fans who pay the highest prices in the world to watch the game. They don’t pay all this money for less football being replaced by farcical VAR decisions.
I think it would have around 10 seconds max to sort that offside out.
And fans are told it’s nonsense when they suggest a bias against their team now and then. This doesn’t help, it was obvious to me that it was offside so I sat down and relaxed after seeing the replay, couldn’t believe he called it a goal. Human error is understandable but not on a var replay that is clear. Anyway, we have to take it, nothing to be done other than bring our A game to city
I kept saying refs and pgmol wont let arsenal win it , i will make everything possible for us to fail,its funny JA hasnt made an article when lee mason FORGOT to draw the lines ,its all over media outlets ,but when i point how the biased agaiant arsenal im called a conspiracy theorist etc,.
If it’s a conspiracy, why didn’t they call back mbuemo’s goal? That was a clear and obvious error by the ref if such a thing exists…
Shdnt the linesman flag for offside?
What about the ref?
Shdnt they offciate inharmony?
Webb has alot on his plate.