🚨 Mateu Lahoz (retired Spanish referee) on West Ham’s disallowed equaliser against Arsenal:
🗣️ “I watched the replay many times and for me, that goal should have stood. Raya was never fully in control of the ball in any situation. If I was the referee, there is no chance I’m disallowing that goal.
When you are fighting relegation, one decision like this can change everything for a club. Players work the whole season for moments and points like these.
And maybe the referee also had pressure in his mind. Arsenal are fighting for the Premier League and perhaps nobody wanted the headlines if that goal changed the title race or helped Manchester City again.
Football is becoming too clinical. Sometimes the game needs common sense more than five-minute VAR reviews.”
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Many Premier League fans are FURIOUS over what they see as the league’s refereeing hypocrisy.
They argue that West Ham’s disallowed goal, despite being a foul, is the same type of set-piece block Arsenal have used all season without being punished.
Fans are now demanding CONSISTENCY from referees, claiming Arsenal have benefited from similar decisions throughout the campaign... But now that it has gone against them, it a foul.