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Exactly. VAR should have kept its nose out of both of them. Or better still, not been there at all.

Dermot Gallagher is programmed never to actually use the words 'got it wrong' in respect of any refereeing or VAR decision!

It was so 'clear and obvious' that the entire home support in the stadium leaped to their feet and shouted "foul! Penalty!" and all the Brighton players put their hands up in the air and rushed exultantly to the ref to claim a penalty........ .........oh, wait a minute............

They have announced that they didn't move the bar. So, that just proves that their view of 'didn't move' is based on the same warped version of English as their view of 'clear and obvious'. Clearly (IMHO) football needs an equivalent of 'umpire's call' in cricket. The foul by Keane on Connolly...

Absolutely this. The worst thing about the implementation of VAR to the PL is that the referees - or whatever panel it was - that laid down the guidelines had a completed different (and frankly perverted) interpretation of 'clear and obvious' than the rest of the known world!

There is another component of what makes a foul.

He also said it was a penalty.

"Come gather round people wherever you roam"!