Alan Shearer Alan Shearer called for VAR voting to be sent to football stadiums after controversy over Liverpool’s goal in their 2-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur.
The extent of what PGMOL called “significant human error” was revealed on Tuesday when audio of the incident at Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium was released for the first time. Liverpool obtained the clip earlier in the day following a strong statement from the club demanding answers after Luis Diaz’s goal was wrongly ruled out.
In the hours after the incident, Darren England and Dan Cook, who were the VAR and assistant VAR for the match, were suspended from Premier League duties for the rest of the week before also being removed from this round. weekend And last night came the news that England will not be taking part in the Liverpool game this season. The audio illustrates the serious breakdown between officials on the pitch and at Stockley Park, with former Newcastle United and England striker Shearer describing the error as “gross” and “shambolic”.
But the journalist believes that the most important change must happen in the stadiums – so fans who know what happens when the game is stopped.
“You can use any word – confusion, disgraceful. I listened to it last night like everyone else, it’s chaotic, you have so many voices,” Shearer said on Wednesday. “Can you imagine being a judge when it’s quite difficult anyway in this pressure situation where you have to make a decision and you have four or five voices in your ear?
– There must be more communication than in rugby. There is a voice in the stadium talking to the VAR official because there is no game without the fans because the fans think about everything they do with football.
“They have to hear what is happening in the stadium – it has to happen and it has to improve. There are two professionals in the VAR room, the VAR and the assistant VAR, how on earth can they make such a decision? What?.
“I think more footballers should be in that room and help them make decisions who haven’t necessarily played football at the highest level, but those who have played football. There are so many things, we need a better understanding, it’s not is going to happen, it is here to stay and we have to endure it.
“It’s going to have to get better as it goes and their big problem is a trust problem because there were people who didn’t believe in it, so you can imagine how it’s going to go.”
