Andy Gray slams VAR after Arsenal and Wolves were were left fuming
TV pundit Andy Gray has slammed VAR for crushing the 'soul of the game' after more controversy at the weekend.
Arsenal were left fuming after Anthony Gordon's match-deciding goal was allowed to stand, while Newcastle midfielder Bruno Guimaraes avoided punishment for a supposed elbow on Jorginho.
And Former Liverpool player Iago Aspas showed his frustrations with VAR after throwing the official's monitor on the floor during Celta Vigo's match.
Gray told BeIN SPORTS: 'VAR has done more damage to our game than anything that we have changed in the last 100 years!
'You talk to any football fan who goes to a (Premier League) match now and who wants to celebrate a goal and can't.
'It's becoming disjointed, it's becoming like American football. It stops for four or five minutes.
'It's taken the soul of the game.
'I would only keep VAR for is offside and the goalline.'
Arsenal released a statement on Sunday supporting manager Mikel Arteta after he slammed the refereeing standards in England following his side's 1-0 defeat to Newcastle on Saturday.
The statement says the club is backing their manager after 'yet more unacceptable refereeing and VAR errors'.
It continues by suggesting that fans, players and managers 'deserve better' from the PGMOL.
Arteta was left fuming after the final whistle at St James' Park as Anthony Gordon's match-deciding goal was allowed to stand, while Bruno Guimaraes avoided punishment for a supposed elbow on Jorginho.
Gordon's decisive strike went through three separate VAR checks before being allowed to stand, with referee Stuart Attwell and VAR official Andy Madley deeming that Joe WIllock had kept the ball in play, Joelinton had not fouled Gabriel and that the goalscorer was onside.
In Spain, Aspas showed his
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