The Daily Mail’s chief sports writer Mike Keegan reports that the PGMOL board technical director Howard Webb has contacted Fulham to apologise for the error that led to Josh King’s goal in the SW6 derby being wrongly ruled out yesterday.
King’s first senior goal for his boyhood club looked to have given Fulham the lead at Stamford Bridge – but referee Rob Jones agreed with video assistant referee Michael Salisbury that Rodrigo Muniz had impeded Trevor Chalobah as he trod on the Chelsea defender’s foot when turning whilst in possession of the ball in the build-up to the goal.
Webb has reportedly contacted Fulham regarding the incident this morning and the PGMOL have acknowledged that an error was committed. They now believe that the previously outlined ‘high threshold’ for VAR intervention was not met in this incident. Salisbury has been stood down from the Premier League match between Liverpool and Arsenal this afternoon, where he was also due to act as a video assistant referee, as a result of his mistake.
Too little, too late! They are very sorry, but they will keep on doing it.
So this is crap it does not change the result unless we insist on the game being replayed anyone can say sorry what about Josh Kings great goal sorry Josh we made a mistake that one mistake changed the whole game
Fulham should not accept the apology it will happen again because of corrupt officials like Kavanagh and Jones and I bet If it happens again it will be Fulham nothing changes UNLESS Fulham asked for the game to be replayed or Josh Kings Goal reinstated but that won’t happen if miracles do happen then Jones must never Referee a Fulhammatch again and Michael Salbury sacked
VAR has been a shambles since day one. When your playing a so called big club ,the fans always effect the decisions. Apart from goal technology bin it. All the officials in charge of VAR ,interpretation of the game is different. Doesn’t matter what the top brass tell them. If it’s that good then when the ball goes out for a corner when it’s clearly not tell the referee . Team score from it so how is that any different it’s all rubbish . When is a goal not a goal , oh nobody knows .the fans pay all the money to watch the sport and are just kept in the dark until somebody at VAR tells them yes you have scored or not. Now we find out they couldn’t even get that right. Oh the officials will be rewarded for there mistake by have a week off and being able to do it all again soon. Fine them £10000 everytime they get it wrong . Might think thats a bit hard but when you get relegated at the end of the season and those VAR decisions would have kept you up , bin it.
I have been trying to work out whether there might be any basis for Fulham to take legal action at least for the Salisbury/ Jones debacle.
The Fulham board should at least take advice on this.
In terms of the reported apology from Howard Webb this is of little value without a clear and meaningful commitment to changes both in the standard of referees eg. Kavanagh and Jones have shown themselves repeatedly to be out of their depth and need retraining/ relegation to lower leagues, and more robust guidelines on how/ where VAR intervenes. I note that Salisbury has been stood down from today’s Liverpool/ Arsenal game. I don’t see how Fulham can have any confidence in his involvement in any of their games this season.
Not good enough. Replay the game from when we took the lead. What sanctions are they taking against Jones who was complicite in the fiasco. Maybe they are going to issue him with a pair of balls. My weekend is ruined, I’m still fuming and an apology does not help.
It’s happened before we had goal disallowed when Maja scored for us when on loan for handball got apologised to changed rule after our that helps us a lot the media moaning only reason they said sorry feel they can get away with it on smaller club there a load of cheats looking after big clubs make official complaint tell them if we go down we’re take them to court for compensation. And we want Josh kings goal officially recognised
What I want to hear is that errant referees undergo substantial retraining and aren’t inflicted on clubs again until it’s clear that lessons have been learned.
This wasn’t a “mistake” – it was a fundamental failure to understand the role of a VAR referee. Having a Sunday off and a bit of a financial penalty doesn’t do it for me.
And what about Jones. If he understood the VAR remit he wouldn’t have disallowed the goal.
Comment *They can stuff their apology where the sun don’t shine!
This is different to just an incorrect decision re penalty the King goal was against the rules for VAR and therefore we should apply on those grounds to have the match replayed. Clubs are deducted points for flouting the rules in this case 2we should be awarded at least one point in compensation
They still don’t appear to have accepted that Muniz actions was not a foul ( not even a tackle ) he was just putting his foot on the floor. It just states that VAR shouldn’t of been used. So they must still be the only people in football who watched that and thought it was a foul !
If Jones doesn’t know the rules, he shouldn’t be refereeing. If he does know the rules he shouldn’t have disallowed the goal, so it wasn’t an error so it must have been deliberate malice, i.e corruption. Either way, Jones should be banned.
For Fulham, the 5 points stolen due to incorrect refereeing in the last two games means we are now in the bottom three rather than being top.
In what does this help????
Do away with VAR it is ruining football and takes too long to make a decision which is not the correct decision,and as for Jones sack him he was the worse referee we have had and he made too many wrong decisions.
I hope this won’t go away The ball less FA have the power to change this I think Fulham should seek legal advice on this either way start sorting out the corruption that going on ie refs Kavanagh,Jones and the bias against the smaller clubs,and maybe use foreign referees with no allegiance to an English club make a legal challenge to replay the game and reinstate Josh Kings goal even go to court if this is not sorted then this will carry on with Bias officials favouring the big clubs and decisions given wrong which could cost managers there jobs and teams relegated and the FA just saying sorry without the smaller clubs there would be no premier league let’s get a petition with signatures to do this
i fully agree the Club should consider court action as this decision was against the rules not only for FFC’s sake but for other clubs outside the top 6. These decision could see us relegated hos much would that cost the club. Somebody needs to take a stand
Do you think Fayed would have taken this lightly? no, he would have his lawyers on the case.
Who in their right mind would want to come to Fulham?
I meant what player would sign up for this nonsense.
“Come play in the Premier League! Play against top teams in Europe! And VAR will always minimize your efforts!”
I do consider the King disallowed goal is entirely different to all other VAR nonsense. This is a clear case of foul play as rules where not followed so taking legal advice is a must especially as the club requested a while ago not to have Jones referring our matches anymore. Someone needs to take a stand
In the meantime we are 19th, so bloody unfair!
Scene: A shed in a car park in Hayes. Lightning briefly illuminates tired office furniture and a cluster of 486-era PCs. Enter three VAR officials, hunched round the glowing orb of the monitor. One munches crisps noisily.
VAR 1:
Where shall we three meet again?
VAR 2:
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
VAR 3 (with a mouthful of crisps):
When Fulham’s joy is turn’d to pain,
And Josh King’s dream is struck in vain.
All Three (chanting):
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
A pixel’d boot hangs in the air.
Enter Referee Robert Jones, probably played by Kenneth Branagh. He is troubled, pacing before the screen.
Ref (anguished):
What the fuck am I looking at, good sirs?
Yon blur confounds my sight, it doth but err.
Is’t boot or shadow, toe or ghostly smear?
Ye bid me judge, yet nothing plain is here.
VAR 1 (smirking):
The toe was trod, though barely mayst thou see.
VAR 2 (gleeful):
A careless foul, by law’s decree from we.
VAR 3 (still crunching crisps, solemnly):
Disallow the strike, let Chelsea’s fortune rise,
And bury Fulham’s hope ’neath empty skies.
Ref (broken, resigned):
Then so it is. The dream must I undo.
The goal is gone — by pixels, not by view.
The Ref departs to signal NO GOAL. From their lair, the VAR team watch the touchline feed. Marco Silva rages at the fourth official, arms flailing.
VAR 1 (delighted):
Behold, Silva doth storm and curse the fates!
VAR 2 (coldly):
His wrath doth please us more than victors’ cheers.
VAR 3 (licking salt from fingers):
With glee we feast upon his wrathful cries;
Our work is done — the dreamful moment dies.
All Three (chanting as curtain falls):
By shadow’d foot and pixel’d stain,
Fulham’s joy is lost again.
Thanks Mr Shakespeare. You put a lot of effort into that piece. Can’t wait for Act 2