Jamie Carragher highlights new VAR issue after Liverpool decision as PGMOL statement slammed

Jamie Carragher highlights new VAR issue after Liverpool decision as PGMOL statement slammed

Your Liverpool headlines as Jamie Carragher and John Aldridge weigh in on Liverpool VAR farce

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Your morning Liverpool headlines for Tuesday, October 3.

‘I am sick’ – Jamie Carragher highlights new VAR issue after Liverpool make Curtis Jones decision

Jamie Carragher insists he has “sympathy” for Curtis Jones after the midfielder was sent off in Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.

Jones was initially shown a yellow card for a challenge on Spurs midfielder Yves Bissouma in the first half. However, referee Simon Hooper was quickly advised to review his decision on the pitch-side monitor after input from Video Assistant Referees Darren England and Dan Cook at Stockley Park.

Then, after being shown a slow-motion replay of the tackle, Hooper upgraded his initial yellow card to red and Jones was sent off. As it stands, the 22-year-old will miss Liverpool’s next three Premier League fixtures against Brighton & Hove Albion, Everton and Nottingham Forest.

The ECHO, though, understands the Anfield club will appeal the dismissal to the Football Association in the hope of getting the red card rescinded, as was the case with Alexis Mac Allister in August.

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Speaking on Monday Night Football, Carragher admitted he has a “big problem” with the way in which Hooper was advised to review the decision by the VAR officials and revealed he pities with the Reds midfielder.

Read the full story, here.

I’ve been doing my reading – Liverpool are right and Howard Webb has no choice

Well. Luis Diaz, VAR and PGMOL – that is the only way we can start this, really. It is just a disgrace, the whole story from top to bottom.

This PGMOL statement, I’m having none of it. Their silence when it happened spoke louder than words – they knew they were in the wrong.

It is so laughable, it is ridiculous. And that’s the best they could come up with? It is not on at all. Sorting it right there and then was as easy as getting in Simon Hooper’s ear, telling him to stop play, calling it back and awarding Diaz’s goal.

The on-field officials aren’t totally exempt from criticism either. Normally the flag goes up later on, he was so quick on the draw he’s quicker than John Wayne in the old westerns. He had his flag up so quickly.

I’ve been doing my reading since. The club themselves are right – sporting integrity has been compromised. At the end of the day relieving the referees of duty for one or two games isn’t enough, it could cost Liverpool the title.

Read John Aldridge’s latest column, here.

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FA must let common sense prevail as Liverpool charge would be mad after PGMOL admission on VAR

At least one Liverpool player is technically open to an FA charge after venting his frustrations following a VAR shambles. Common sense simply has to prevail.

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There is an urgent need for the FA to exercise common sense as one or more Liverpool players face possible charges. (Image: Photo by Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)

The fallout from the VAR error in Liverpool vs Spurs has been in line with the magnitude of the mistake. Surely the worst blunder in the Premier League since the technology was introduced, it has remained a talking point more than 48 hours after the match ended.

Far more galling than a bad subjective call, this is an error that has been specifically borne of the technology. Of course, Liverpool would not have been awarded the goal without VAR either, with the on-field assistant wrongly calling offside, but a failure to intervene on the basis of an erroneous ‘check complete’ call when the opposite was intended is far harder to stomach than a rogue flag.

Never before have all of the officials been near-instantly aware that a grave game-altering error has been made, yet felt powerless to alter it. Presumably, nobody was prepared to make the call that the circumstances warranted overriding VAR protocol — and with Spurs scoring soon afterwards, the situation rapidly became utterly irrevocable.

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Common sense certainly did not prevail. But there is a chance for the FA, at least, to use some of it as it assesses the fallout from the incident.

Naturally, Liverpool players and staff were aghast at the outcome. To his eternal credit, Jürgen Klopp was remarkably restrained in his post-match interview given the circumstances, but some of his players let their emotions get the better of them a little more.

In particular, Alexis Mac Allister has undoubtedly opened himself up to the technical possibility of an FA charge, as the Metro reports. In a heated and since-deleted exchange with international teammate Cristian Romero on Instagram, the Liverpool midfielder said the Spurs victory was ‘normal when you have 12 players’.

By the letter of the law, the FA probably feels bound to find that this is questioning the integrity of a match official. That warrants a charge. But in the circumstances, to enforce that would be utterly ridiculous.

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The integrity of the match officiating is already a lost cause. A perfectly valid goal was chalked off because of an administrative error: the PGMOL has admitted that the VAR process failed miserably. While the referees were not on Tottenham’s side, as Mac Allister implied, they categorically handed Spurs the victory by way of their decision-making.

Players are already expected to be like robots in the sheer amount of football they are made to play. Now, they are being asked never to show any emotion either. Frankly, even Mac Allister’s outburst is relatively restrained in the context of the scale of the injustice perpetuated against Liverpool.

It’s too late to salvage much from this incident, which has left the reputation of VAR and the PGMOL in tatters. But the FA, at least, can use a little bit of common sense, ensuring that the situation does not contrive to get even worse.

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