🚨 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.”
🗣️🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Tomas Souček is speaking out!
"It's a BIG error by VAR! I don't see any foul. Every game Arsenal does so many blocks... so many small fouls.... and now suddenly they need the title and they get it. For football this is very disappointing. Even for Arsenal fans this is not what we want."
— ViaPlay
🗣️🎙️| Roy Keane on Westham goal disallowed:
“The decision itself shouldn’t be the issue because it was the correct call, but Arsenal have been awarded goals like that several times this season, and I could clearly remember the one against United.”
The inconsistency in Premier League refereeing is becoming an absolute disgrace. It happens almost every match now, and something seriously needs to be done about it.
There wouldn’t have been this much outrage from fans if Arsenal hadn’t benefited from similar goals all season. That’s where the frustration comes from.”
ℹ️🚨|| Simon Jordan over VAR decision to rule out West Ham’s goal..
Modern officiating and VAR are “rewriting football, the contact involved was never enough to overturn the goal.
West Ham had every right to feel robbed and accused referees of protecting bigger clubs in high-pressure title races.
One week it’s allowed, the next week it’s disallowed. Nobody knows the rules anymore.
Jamie Carragher on the controversial disallowed goal in West Ham United vs Arsenal:
"No one touched David Raya and the goal should have stood. I don't know what Arteta and the players were protesting about, but that's not a foul.
If the officials want Arsenal to win the league, they should just give it to them.
It's scandalous and embarrassing to watch. How did that even happen, and VAR didn't help after the review? Arsenal will go down as the team that was supposedly supported by PGMOL to win the Premier League."
🚨 Jarrod Bowen on disallowed goal: “When you look at the screen for five minutes you'll find something”.
“Do I think it's the right decision? No. Where's the consistency? As a fan you don't want to celebrate a goal and then wait eight minutes and it's taken off you”.
🚨🎙️ Rio Ferdinand on West Ham’s disallowed goal against Arsenal:
“I’ll tell you what, that VAR decision was absolutely shocking. Arsenal have been blocking and crowding goalkeepers from set-pieces all season, and nothing gets called.
We even saw it at Old Trafford when Saliba backed into Bayindir and stopped him from making the save, yet the goal stood without any complaints.
But now, in a huge title race game against West Ham, the same kind of contact suddenly becomes a foul on David Raya? It just doesn’t make sense.
You start wondering what standards are actually being used anymore because the inconsistency is becoming embarrassing.”
"Ref Watch on Sky completely ignoring the “clear and obvious“ point of VAR. If a ref had to see it 17 times, it’s not clear & obvious. The fact it’s such an important game makes no odds. Every game should be officiated the same. Our refs & PGMOL have no clue."
– Matt Le Tissier
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Fans and Pundits are now pointing out that Declan Rice made a CLEAR FOUL which has been MISSED by VAR during the check of West Ham United's goal!
He was holding his opponents with TWO ARMS around his entire body!