Liverpool have every right to feel wronged after one of the worst officiating errors in Premier League history cost them dear in their last-minute 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur.
Luis Diazincorrectly had a goal disallowed for offside in the first half, with the PGMOL admitting that the decision not to award the goal was a "significant human error" after VAR failed to intervene. Chief Howard Webb would reach out to apologise to the club after the final whistle.
It would later emerge that VAR Darren England and his assistant Dan Cook were not aware that the on-field decision was to disallow the goal for offside, in what has been described as a momentary lapse of concentration, and were then unable to intervene once play had restarted due to the laws of the game.
Such an error is the most embarrassing of mistakes, and has understandably been the main talking point following the Reds’ last-minute loss. But while Liverpool were incomprehensibly denied a perfectly valid goal, it is not the only decision that club sources feel aggrieved by.
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Jurgen Klopp’s side finished the match in North London with nine men after Curtis Joneswas shown a straight red card in the first half, while Diogo Jota picked up two bookings in quick-succession after the interval. The midfielder will now serve a three-match ban, while the forward will miss the Reds’ trip to Brighton next weekend courtesy of a one-game suspension.
But was it the right decision to dismiss either player? Jones was initially booked by referee Simon Hooper for a foul on Yves Bissouma, only for
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