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Furious Shearer slams Irons VAR hold up

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Nayef Aguerd and the rest of us were joined in our fury at the three minute VAR hold up after the Hammers goal against Saints by a certain Alan Shearer.

The former England star and MOTD pundit  took to his social media platform to express his disbelief at how long it took to decide the goal was legal.

He agreed with most of us that it was as clear as day the goal should stand as the Hammers took the lead midway through the first half thanks to the Moroccan defender’s header.

With images showing that Aguerd was quite clearly onside for the goal, the hold up in being allowed to celebrate was quite dreadful and it was all too much for Shearer  with the Premier League all-time top scorer taking to his social media account.

He snapped: “Wtf is going on VAR?” on his personal Twitter .

The Hammers held on for all three points to move out of the relegation zone and up to 14th

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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