30 September 2023 , 19:54
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Gary Neville has described PGMOL's latest mistake as "really, really bad" - after they apologised to Liverpool on Saturday evening.
Luis Diaz's goal was wrongly disallowed for offside during Liverpool's 2-1 defeat at Tottenham. The video assistant referee (VAR) failed to properly check the incident, with Spurs going on to win the Premier League clash thanks to a late own goal by Joel Matip.
PGMOL, who are responsible for refereeing in the Premier League, said sorry to Jurgen Klopp's side for the blunder and put it down to a "significant human error". Manchester United icon Neville was stunned by the mistake, describing it as "unbelievable".
Neville was part of Sky Sports' coverage for the game and offered his thoughts on PGMOL's apology. He said: "Oh no, seriously? At the time, I thought that’s onside but then I hear in my ear, ‘check complete’. No lines, it was so quick. Something was obviously wrong.
"That is unbelievable. That is a really, really bad one. They’ve said significant, that’s not significant, that’s really significant. I’ve made a point over the last few weeks - do we even have the right camera angles for these VAR interventions anymore?
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"I’ve defended VAR and offsides as a matter of fact but over the last few weeks, there’s been so many that they’ve gotten wrong. It was all too quick, it wasn’t right. I asked the director, and he told me they must’ve drawn the lines on back at Stockley Park (where VAR decisions are made), but they can’t have.
"That’s a horrendous one - that is clearly (Cristian) Romero’s foot and clearly Diaz’s shoulder, it’s not like there’s a bunch of players there. It’s almost as if there’s no cameras anymore, they’re picking the wrong cameras to draw the lines on. Something doesn’t feel right!"
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A statement from PGMOL read: "PGMOL acknowledges significant human error occurred during the first-half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool. The goal by Luis Diaz was disallowed by the on-field team of match officials.
"That 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. PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error. PGMOL will immediately be contacting Liverpool at the conclusion of the fixture to acknowledge the error."
Neville's fellow Sky Sports pundit Andros Townsend added: "We all looked at it upstairs and we all thought it was onside, but I was shocked when we saw they’d given it offside... If we’re now saying we can’t even trust the technology, what does that say about the state of English football? How can we trust it anymore?"