West Ham United boss David Moyes has scorned Premier League officials for their 'scandalous' decision to disallow Maxwel Cornet's stoppage-time equaliser at Chelsea on Saturday with the Scot allegedly bursting into referee Andy Madley's dressing room after the game.
Kai Havertz had put the Blues 2-1 up with just moments to go in what looked like a superb comeback victory for Thomas Tuchel's men on home turf. But when Jarrod Bowen raced through and forced Edouard Mendy into action, the ball was parried out for Cornet to smash into the top corner to leave away fans ecstatic and the Chelsea faithful with heads in their hands.
But the drama wasn't done there. VAR intervened, and a lengthy wait culminated in Madley bizarrely ruling that Bowen had either fouled the Senegalese stopper or taken the ball out of his clutch before Cornet netted. Hammers fans were left seething at the decision, whilst pundits and fans up and down the country have aired their bamboozlement at yet another controversial incident. And Moyes was not afraid to hide his anger at officials, labelling the sequence as a 'scandalous' decision.
"Well you've seen it haven't you, so you've a chance to assess it yourself," Moyes told reporters. "It's a scandalous decision, absolutely rotten decision from one of your supposedly elite referees. It doesn't say much about whoever sent him over on VAR, as well. But it's an unbelievable decision that went against us."
According to talkSPORT, the former Manchester United boss wasn't done there; storming the officials' dressing room and airing expletives at those in charge, gesticulating to them on the pitch and telling reporters that he felt Mendy had faked his injury to sway the decision of Jarred Gillett, who was in charge of VAR.
"We feel we got back to 2-2 and it was not down to anything we have done," Moyes continued. "I support a lot of the VAR stuff, I actually think the goalkeeper dives, he is faking an injury because he cannot get to the next one - he did the same on the first goal as well. The referee somehow gets that so wrong it is incredible."
Glasgow-born Moyes has a history of airing his frustration at referees. With his then-Everton side pressing for a winner against Manchester United back in 2010, a last-minute attack was halted by referee Martin Atkinson - with Moyes picking up charges of improper conduct for his behaviour towards the officials.
The result leaves the Hammers 18th in the Premier League table, with just one win from their opening six games - and with their Europa Conference League campaign still to come, it could further cause problems to their league position in an already packed schedule.
