'You're not fit to referee' - Spirit of Shankly issue explosive statement in response to Liverpool VAR controversy

Spirit of Shankly has called for drastic changes to how football is officiated after Liverpool’s controversial 2-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur.

The Reds finished the game with nine men as both Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota were dismissed, with a last-minute own goal fromJoel Matip consigning them to a heartbreaking defeat. Yet the biggest talking point came in the first half when Luis Diaz incorrectly had a goal ruled out for offside.

After the final whistle, the PGMOL admitted that the decision not to award the goal was a ‘significant human error’ after VAR had failed to intervene. It would later emerge that VAR Darren England and his assistant Dan Cook were not actually 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.

Referees chief Howard Webb would reach out to apologise to Liverpool following the defeat, but it would be no consolation given the manner of their defeat.

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With Diaz’s disallowed goal only the latest of a long list of officiating errors, the Reds’ supporters union, Spirit of Shankly, have issued an explosive statement calling out both the PGMOL and VAR.

Titled, ‘You’re not fit to referee’, they wrote: “A terrace refrain knocking about in one guise or another since the days of the football special.

“Officials make mistakes, everyone of us makes those, but to limit them on the football field, we have VAR. The introduction of technology as a back-up to erase