I don't get the VAR involvement in the 1st Palace penalty, which was given on the pitch but subsequently overturned. I thought the 3 areas within the scope of VAR to be decisions regarding offsides (when leading up to a goal), penalty kicks and red cards. Whilst the foul in the box was a correct decision, a foul by Hughes was deemed to have occurred earlier ine play. The tackle was seen by the referee with an unobstructed view from less than 10 yards away, but he did not give it (even though it was a foul). Surely a VAR review of that foul is outside the scope of reference for VAR decisions? Incidentally, all 3 pundits on MOTD thought it was right to overturn the decision, but I would love to know why.
For a goal VAR is used to see if there was any foul play in the build up so had Palace scored VAR would have correctly highlight the foul which led to the goal. I don’t know for sure but I assume the build up to a penalty is treated the same way. In any case of all the VAR decisions to pick on this is way down the list as it was definitely the right decision to award the foul
Aww now look what you've done, Kyran Wilson is very upset with you now. He's thrown his cue down in anger!.
