The two assistant referees at the heart of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) controversy between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool have been stood down from duty. Darren England, VAR for Saturday evening’s Premier League fixture, and Dan Cook, the assistant VAR on the same game, will not officiate for Nottingham Forest vs Brentford on Sunday and the Fulham vs Chelsea match on Monday night respectively. PGMOL confirmed that Craig Pawson will now assume England’s duties as fourth official at the City Ground while Eddie Smart will take over from Cook as assistant referee at Craven Cottage.
VAR lines were not provided with the replays. PGMOL stated that VAR had failed to intervene with the decision and promised a full review into the incident.A PGMOL statement read: “PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool.
“The goal by Luiz Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.”“Who does that help now? We won’t get points for it, it won’t help,” he said. “Nobody expects 100% right decisions but we thought when VAR came in it might make things easier. The decision was made really quick and it changed the momentum of the game.
was shown a straight red card for his challenge on Yves Bissouma. The Liverpool midfielder had initially been yellow-carded by referee Simon Hooper before a VAR intervention.
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