'What the hell does that mean?' - Simon Jordan slams 'stupid' Liverpool response to VAR blunder

TalkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan believes the fault for Liverpool's VAR controversy lies with referees, not the technology itself, and feels the club's follow-up statement won't have any impact.

Diaz seemingly put 10-man Liverpool in front against Tottenham Hotspur although the linesman flagged offside. VAR then signalled play-on however after full-time when the Reds' defeat was already confirmed, PGMOL published a statement detailing how the wrong outcome had been communicated leading to the Reds being incorrectly denied.

Speaking about the mess-up on talkSPORT, Jordan was not impressed. "They all failed. The whole [system] failed," he began. "No one can excuse it, the competency of the individual is in question here, the diligence and paying attention to all that is going on in front of him.

Although the former Crystal Palace owner conceded human errors are natural occurrences, he could not defend referee Simon Hooper for allowing the match to continue without rectifying the mistake at the first opportunity.

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"The protocol of the current rules are once the game has kicked off, you have to get on with it. Someone had to break protocol in the better interests of the game, had to be prepared to take the wrath of working for the PGMOL, break protocol and live with that in the better interests of the game.

"I bet they'd have been supported by [Howard] Webb. Leadership - there is not enough of it."

Jordan also strongly addressed Liverpool's own club statement, in which they demanded the need for 'escalation and resolution'. It has since been revealed the