WATCH: 'You're all scared!' - Furious Arsenal legend Paul Merson blasts former referee Mike Dean as guests clash on live TV over Tottenham-Liverpool VAR controversy

Paul Merson ripped apart former referee Mike Dean on live TV as guests clashed over Tottenham-Liverpool VAR controversy.

WHAT HAPPENED? The controversy regarding Luis Diaz's mistakenly cancelled goal by VAR against Tottenham continues to be a topic of hot debate in the TV studios. The PGMOL admitted that the goal should have stood and it had been erroneously chalked off as a result of «a significant human error».

While Jurgen Klopp suggested midweekthat there should be a replay, there have been opinions from various quarters that the game should have been stopped to award the goal to Liverpool. And Arsenal legend Paul Merson is one of them.

However, Dean was in no mood to entertain that proposal and took a dig at former players by claiming that most of them don't know the rules.

«The way forward, do you get ex players in? For me no because I just don't think, if you go get players in, half of them don't know the laws of the game full stop as you can tell by what you (Merson) said about restarting games for the sake of it,» he said during the Soccer Saturday debate on Sky Sports.

Merson was furious to hear that and he retorted: «For the sake of it? For the sake of it? What do you mean for the sake of it? You're playing Liverpool against Tottenham, one of the biggest games and you're saying for the sake of it.

»There's no law. No one is going to die so stop the game. You're all scared. You're all like 'Oh my god I'm going to get in trouble'. Stop the game. Stop the game and then look at the circumstances.

«Seriously, it's typical you have not played the game. Because you know the rules, it's different.»

Paul Merson and Mike Dean clash over 'the laws of the game'