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.