Liverpool ask PGMOL to release audio of VAR decision to disallow Luis Diaz's goal at Tottenham

PGMOL said «significant human error» was behind Luis Diaz's goal being ruled out for Liverpool at Tottenham; VAR team mistakenly thought on-field decision had been to award goal; Liverpool formally request audio from officials after vowing to «explore the range of options available»

Monday 2 October 2023 16:52, UK

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Liverpool have made a formal request to PGMOL for the audio between match officials from Saturday’s defeat at Spurs after Luis Diaz's opener was wrongly disallowed.

Diaz's goal against Spurs was incorrectly disallowed for offside after a mix-up from VAR official Darren England labelled by the PGMOL a «significant human error». He and his assistant VAR were taken off duty from their scheduled games on Sunday.

Liverpool vowed on Sunday to «explore the range of options available» to them to reach a resolution, and have now approached the PGMOL for the raw audio files of the conversations between England and his on-field colleagues which led to the goal being ruled out.

England and assistant Dan Cook mistakenly believed Diaz's goal was initially allowed to stand and told on-field referee Simon Hooper their check was complete.

The statement from Liverpool read: «Liverpool Football Club acknowledges PGMOL's admission of their failures last night. It is clear that the correct application of the laws of the game did not occur, resulting in sporting integrity being undermined.

»We fully accept the pressures that match officials work under but these pressures are supposed to be alleviated, not exacerbated, by the existence and implementation of VAR.

«It is therefore unsatisfactory that sufficient time was not afforded to allow the correct decision to be made