Lee Clark has branded the FA's handling of Newcastle United's VAR farce at Chelsea as an "absolute disgrace" with the only action so far seeing Isaac Hayden charged for making post-game comments on the performance of referee David Coote and VAR man John Brooks.
Hayden posted a tweet saying that Newcastle had been up against "12 men" at Stamford Bridge and in doing so reflected the views of thousands of paying fans. But the FA have so far refused to accept they made a mistake themselves.
In a season in which Newcastle have already suffered from a host of poor and more importantly decisive errors in games from Premier League officials, the anger is still in the air on Tyneside. At Chelsea, Kai Havertz stayed on the field despite leaving Dan Burn bloodied and bruised before Jacob Murphy failed to win a spot-kick after being hauled down in the box at the second attempt and even slow motion replays of the clear fouls unable to sway the mind of Melton Mowbray whistler Brooks.
