VAR gets it wrong for the umpteenth time

Last night West Ham should have been given a penalty just before half-time when Victor Lindelof handled the ball inside his own area from a Said Benrahma cross.

Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole were on pundit duty for BT Sport and both of them dissected the incident during the half-time break.

“Without a doubt 100% (it was a penalty). He has moved his arm towards the ball, I don’t understand for the life of me why VAR hasn’t looked at it. It killed West Ham against Liverpool and it’s happened again, David Moyes will be furious.”

And then Rio Ferdinand added:

“We all shouted handball immediately. You see his arm, he moves his arm towards the ball. I don’t know how the referee hasn’t been told to go over and have a look at it.”

How on earth that decision wasn’t given last night is absolutely mind-boggling.

It’s not VAR that’s the problem, it’s the inept officials operating it.

It does make you think though, that there is a bias towards the so-called big six teams.. When was the last time we got a big decision given in our favour against one of those sides?

We seem to be reaching a point where barely a game goes by when VAR doesn’t creatgye talking points and problems.

Significantly, there are no former players involved in making these decisions – only those who haven;t played the game at a professional level.

That needs to change if we are to continue with this technological intervention within the game.