Liverpool suffered a 1-2 defeat away to Tottenham Hotspur in a high-profile Premier League clash. In the first half, Luis Diaz's goal was ruled offside, a call that sparked heated debate. Faced with pressure from the British professional referee company (PGMOL), Tuesday (3), the ball witness team in the incident during the conversation recordings have been made public, in which the VAR ball witness England Glenn in the realization of the error, but "can not do anything about it" gesture to try to calm the storm, which can not help but make the Liverpool fans feel angry.
After Luis Diaz's goal was ruled out for offside, VAR referee Englund mistakenly thought referee Simon Hooper had already awarded the goal. However, according to public recordings, Simon Hooper praised the team's performance when Engellen announced that the "check was complete", but the error was quickly pointed out by the "replay operator". A series of puzzling conversations ensued:
Are you happy with the decision?
VAR Assistant Ball Witness (Quirk): Yes.
REPLAY OPERATOR: Are you happy with the decision?
VAR assistant referee (Quirk): offside, goal... Got it wrong, Englund.
Englund: What do you mean?
REPLAY OPERATOR: The call on the field was offside, are you happy with the picture? There was no offside. The screen showed that the goal was not offside.
Englund: Oh! FxxK!
Replay Operator: pause, pause. Ollie (PGMOL control room supervisor) says pause needed, Ollie says pause needed.
Englund: Replay.
REPLAY OPERATOR: Ollie called for a timeout and the ruling was no offsides.
Englund: Nothing can be done!
Replay Operator: ollie says suspend the game, ollie says suspend the game.
Englund: Ollie?
REPLAY OPERATOR: Stop the game. Want to stop the game? Stop the game.
ENGLAND: They've restarted the game, can't do anything about it, can't do anything about it.
Quirk: They've restarted the game and there's nothing we can do about it.
Englund: There's nothing I can do about it, nothing I can do about it, FxxK!
