I HAD spent the summer desperately hoping VAR and the standard of Premier League officiating would improve this season. But we’re one game in and it already looks like we are set for another campaign of anger and confusion caused by people who don’t understand the pain and anguish their mistakes cause. 6 VAR will be a problem again over the next 12 months, says Karren Brady 6 Fabian Schar saw straight red for "headbutting" Ben Brereton Diaz last Saturday Credit: Rex 6 Wolves defender Yerson Mosquera sqeezed Gabriel Jesus on the backside Credit: Reuters 6 And VAR could not look at Eberechi Eze’s perfectly fine freekick Credit: Rex Newcastle’s Fabian Schar was sent off for a “headbutt” on Southampton’s Ben Brereton Diaz — even though the Saints striker thrust his head forward with as much “force” as Schar.
Yet at Arsenal, Wolves’ Yerson Mosquera was not even booked despite appearing to strangle Kai Havertz and squeezing Gabriel Jesus’ backside! So infuriating VAR inconsistencies are back, it seems. And just when it could have been put to proper use at Brentford to award Crystal Palace a perfectly good goal, VAR was not allowed to get involved because on-field ref Sam Barrott had blown his whistle too early. Seriously? READ MORE FOOTBALL NEWS GREEN LIGHT Mason Greenwood set to turn back on England to play for Jamaica Eberechi Eze’s brilliant free-kick flew in but was ruled out for a perceived foul on Nathan Collins by Will Hughes.
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