VAR Darren England and assistant Dan Cook were dropped after the PGMOL issued an apology for failing to allow Liverpool’s opening goal at Spurs
Darren England, the VAR, and Dan Cook, the AVAR, have been removed from duties at Nottingham Forest v Brentford on Sunday and Fulham v Chelsea on Monday respectively. England was due to be the fourth official at the City Ground and Cook the assistant referee at Craven Cottage.
Luis Díaz thought he had scored the opening goal at Tottenham only for a flag to go up. But rather than overrule the on-field decision, England, the VAR, called “check complete” because he had not noticed the goal had been disallowed and instead thought it had been given by the referee, Simon Hooper. The PGMOL issued an apology for the “significant human error” and for England’s lapse of concentration. Since the start of last season, the PGMOL has apologised for mistakes on 14 occasions..
As with all goals, the VAR checks every element of the goal to ensure they are correct. The lines were drawn and the process was correctly followed. However, England lost focus of the initial onfield decision. PGMOL acknowledged the decision to rule out Díaz’s 34th-minute goal was a “clear and obvious factual error”.
The error is another mortifying episode in a difficult season for PGMOL and its implementation of VAR.
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