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It kind of feels the National media are making more of Ivan Toney's goal wrongly standing after the VAR check than our goal being chalked off

Next time a decision like that gets referred to VAR, a loud continuous chorus of 30,000 boos during the wait would be good to hear. Not that it will have any bearing in the VAR studio but will be a timely reminder to onfield officials that we've been let down by admitted errors more than once...

There's Premier League grounds and then there's Selhurst Park

Also, isn't there THREE assistant VAR officials as well as the main VAR? In which case how the f**k can 'human error' be used as an excuse, reason or whatever, in which FOUR professionals have collectively all got wrong??

Claiming 'human error' simply isn't good enough, not when VAR has time to review replays over and over. People need to be held to account for things like this. I'm not suggesting in any way we have the goal reinstated but this is clearly unsatisfactory performance that needs addressing

I've been thinking recently, give me a couple of months as a VAR official each week and I'm genuinely very confident I'd do a better job than the apparent professionals. I get on field referees have a difficult job and often have to make split second decisions, seeing things just once and at...