Fulham's Josh King thought he had scored at Chelsea before VAR Michael Salisbury sent referee Rob Jones to a pitchside monitor for a foul by Rodrigo Muniz on Trevoh Chalobah. Fulham boss Marco Silva described the intervention as "unbelievable." PGMOL removed Salisbury from the VAR appointment for Liverpool v Arsenal and admitted an error. Premier League referees' chief Howard Webb said established guidance was not followed, stressing a high threshold for penalising contact and a high bar for VAR intervention, and insisting on preserving on-field decisions unless evidence is very clear before overturning goals.
"It wasn't controversial, it was wrong," Webb said on the Premier League's VAR show, Match Officials Mic'd Up. "We've established some principles in terms of how we officiate in the Premier League and how we use VAR. They sit around a high threshold for penalising contact -- it aids the flow and rhythm and tempo of the game."
"We've also established a high bar for intervention with VAR. In other words, if situations are not clearly wrong and the referee has made a call on the field, that call will stand, or at least should stand. And that's the message that we give to all of our VARs, particularly when we come to taking away goals that are so obviously such a crucial moment in the game."
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