The PGMOL boss Howard Webb defended the decision to overwrite Everton’s punishment in her 2-2 draw against Manchester United last month, but asked why the referee in the field no better over the incident of Var.
In the added time of the eventful game, Ashley Young threw himself under pressure from both Harry Maguire and Matthijs de Ligt. The officer on the field, Andy Madley, gave a punishment, but after checking the incident, overridden, outside the decision to check the incident.
It was an extremely controversial call when repetitions undoubtedly showed that Young’s shirt was pulled, but the Premier League quickly confirmed that the officials did not believe that a foul had been committed, much to the surprise of many observation from home, which believed that Madley had not seen enough corners of the incident to make the decision.
Webb, continue to speak Match officer MIC’D Upagreed that Madley was not supplied with the corresponding number of perspectives, but insisted that the decision to overestimate the punishment would still have been achieved.
“The referee clearly punished Maguire in this situation,” said Webb. “He believed Maguire pulled Young with his left hand and he describes that. The Var knows that and it will be the starting point of the check.
“If the Var looks at it, Maguire does not do what the referee perceives it in real time. He sees a touch, but no train from Maguire. There is no contact with a lower body. Boy rises via Maguires’s leg and then spreads his leg and goes to the floor.
“It is not a foul by Maguire. In our opinion, awarding a punishment is clear and obviously wrong.
“You ask the referee on the screen to take into account the actions of de Ligt, but I absolutely accept that the angles that are present to the referee at this point are not clear enough, which does.
“You have to show him the angles earlier on the screen. I do not say that De Ligt’s actions are a foul, but you have to show another angle to make a determination on the screen. Some of these corners were shown in the show, and I think part of the criticism came about how this process came about.
“We talked about how not all contacts are a bad contact – just because they have a small tractor does not mean that they fall forward according to the effects of this action and the way young.
“We do not believe that this corresponds to the threshold of a punishment. That was the referee’s view on the screen and was currently shown the angle behind the target.
“I am pretty sure that he would have come to the same decision anyway, but people can see that he saw the full information.”