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Half Time: West Ham 2 Chelsea 1 (VAR -1)

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West Ham should have been 2-1 up against Chelsea at the London Stadium at half time.

Tomas Soucek scored two good goals but the first one was ruled null and void by VAR.

The Hammers don’t seem to catch a break with referee Jon Moss spending three and a half minutes at Stockley Park before ruling out the goal much to David Moues disgust.

Commentators on Sky Sports were also surprised at the decision which they disagreed with.

Michail Antonio was in an off-side position but he was not interfering with play or blocking the Chelsea goalkeepers vision.  Former Hammer James Collins in the Sky studio was lost for words saying the goal should have stood adding that if anything Antonio on the floor helped Chelsea buy blocking half the goal.

Another former Hammer Carlton Cole on Sky’s watch-a-long was equally furious shouting Antonio is on the floor, what is he supposed to do?

Just a few minutes after the wrongly disallowed goal,  Issa Diop concedes a penalty which Chelsea convert to take the lead.

Justice was served on deep in injury time before half time as Tomas Soucek rose hight to nod in to get his second goal of the first half.

So officially the scoreline at Half time was 1-1  but it should be 2-1 to the Hammers and -1 to VAR and Jon Moss

Bring on the second half!

COYI

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I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball,

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