'The cynic in me' - Liverpool legend Phil Thompson questions PGMOL and Howard Webb after VAR chaos

Liverpool legend Phil Thompson favours taking VAR out of football and refuses to accept PGMOL's reasoning behind Luis Diaz's wrongly disallowed goal.

The fallout from the latest officiating blunder in the Premier League has continued into Tuesday - the public await clarity from PGMOL bosses after the Reds formally requested to receive the full audio between on-field referee Simon Hooper, his assistants and VAR officials Darren England and Dan Cook that led to a 'significant human error' and the denial of Diaz's perfectly fine goal.

The club's course of action is one to help prevent a major incident such as this from never occurring again, though former Liverpool captain Thompson has explained his simple solution to achieve the same end. He was speaking to Paddy Power and wants VAR scrapped entirely.

"I’ve never been an advocate of it from the beginning," he admitted. "VAR was to come in to help us to get more decisions right. Have football fans ever argued more since VAR has come in?

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"We accepted the human error side without VAR, with marginal offside calls, that was part of the game. We didn’t moan or argue as much as we have with VAR.

"Too many referees make decisions now because they think that their decisions will be rectified by officials in Stockley Park, and they aren’t being.

"We can’t celebrate goals anymore because we’re nervous has something happened in the build-up. That’s not the way we love the game and why people pay hard earned money to go and watch the game. I would be in favour of taking it out of our game."

The 69-year-old