The head of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, PGMOL, Howard Webb, has admitted that his officials made an embarrassing error in ruling out Fulham’s goal against Chelsea.
Josh King’s strike was disallowed following a VAR review as they fell to a 2-0 defeat by their rivals on Saturday.
King thought he had put Fulham 1-0 up in the derby, only for referee Rob Jones to rule that his team-mate Rodrigo Muniz had committed a foul earlier in the move.
Muniz was deemed to have made a “careless challenge” on Chalobah near the halfway line in the build-up to the counter-attack.
PGMOL later dropped Michael Salisbury, the VAR official who worked with Jones, from Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash between Liverpool and Arsenal.
“It wasn’t controversial, it was wrong,” Webb said on Match Officials Mic’d Up.
“We’ve established some principles in terms of how we officiate in the Premier League and how we use VAR.”