The Key Match Incidents Panel have confirmed that Josh King’s goal in the SW6 derby was wrongly disallowed by VAR.
Professional Game Match Officials Limited chief refereeing officer Howard Webb described the decision to rule out King’s superbly-taken strike for a foul by Rodrigo Muniz on Trevoh Chalobah as a ‘misjudgement’. VAR Michael Salisbury was stood down from his next match and the Key Incidents Panel, wrote in their report on most recent round of fixtures:
“The panel unanimously supported the original on-field call to allow play to continue and award the goal.”
They also found that the VAR in Wolves’ defeat at the hands of Everton was wrong not to give the home side a penalty for a foul by Iliman Ndiaye on Hugo Bueno. The man who didn’t intervene in that case – Craig Pawson – has been selected as the referee for Fulham’s game with Leeds United at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
A lot of good that will do us. No chance of getting match replayed!!
We’ll just have to vote for it as goal of the season.
The FA have the power to reinstate the goal but they won’t because of there mistake Fulham need to take this right to the top to court even that mistake changed the whole result and tempo of the game we were beating Chelsea in every dept and that’s what annoys me how many more times have Fulham got to be on the end of these decisions it’s now getting almost bias against the smaller clubs why
Fulham should take legal action . If just to show the absurdity of the game . The FA can initiate a reply in the case of the misapplication of the law . This has been deemed misjudgment but could worth arguing that the VAR referee had applied the law wrong . Worth a try . In any case if it takes more than 10 seconds to look at something it can not be obvious ….. Better would be to give Fulham 2 points .
Something most of us already knew.
These mistakes cost teams valuable points, which could in a worst case scenario, result in relegation and the loss of millions of pounds. I think, as many do, that there should be an appeals procedure. If VAR can ‘override’ on field decisions, then there should be an official route to appealing such glaring errors as this.
VAR was supposed to be the panacea to correct poor decision making by match officials, unfortunately, it has done the exact opposite by introducing, through simple incompetence, another level of contention.
The rules need to change and quickly.
I agree we should make a stand and look at taking legal action to get the match replayed
I see Jones got the Wales/Canada match as a reward.
I saw that Martin. How can you give such a biased referee this kind of match after such a blatantly bad decision. Yes it does seem like a reward for incompetence
They keep saying goal should have stood we all know that just adds salt to the wound. There not going to do anything about it. Happens to Fulham and smaller clubs to much beginning to look like cheating. They don’t really care
If we made a legal challenge what are the chances of getting the match replayed. Are there any precedents or would it be a pointless exercise