What Sean Dyche wants to happen with VAR after controversial Dominic Calvert-Lewin Everton red card

Everton manager Sean Dyche has called for more consistency with VAR following Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s controversial sending off in the goalless draw at Crystal Palace.

Calvert-Lewin was given his marching orders in the FA Cup third-round tie at Selhurst Park after catching Nathaniel Clyne with a raised boot despite the free-kick not being given in real time. Dyche said: “I just think it’s in a peculiar place, I’ll try and explain myself. If you slow anything down of that nature, it’s going to look a lot worse compared to when you see it live.

“I’ve seen it both of course, it doesn’t look that bad, but if you slow it down it’s high but there’s minimal contact. I know you can’t judge a player but he’s certainly not that type of player, that’s for sure.

“Then you go, 'right, okay', live the ref gives nothing but then of course it’s pulled back. Then you go, ‘right, let’s start slowing it down’.”

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The Blues boss added: “The bigger picture point for me is Beto clearly gets pulled to the floor with two arms around his waist so why don’t they slow-mo that? Because if it’s the same, I’ve seen the slow-mo.

“So when the slow-mo happens and the ball drops in front of him, the player has got to arms around his waist. What they’ll say, I guarantee is, ‘yeah, but if you look at it live, he doesn’t hold on to him long enough’.

“I bet that will be the feedback. They go, ‘well, if you look at that live, yeah, it’s not that bad'. So where? What’s the parity? We all know the penalty thing when you get the end of someone’s toe and they go down and that’s okay but you grab