Gary Neville has come to the defence of referees and to some extent, VAR too, after the controversy that overshadowed the Manchester United vs Arsenal and Chelsea vs West Ham games this weekend.
Premier League game week 6 in 2022/23 will be remembered for all the VAR controversy that occurred during multiple fixtures. Not only the two aforementioned fixtures but also incidents during Newcastle vs Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest vs AFC Bournemouth had referees at Stockley Park struggling to get the right decision.
In the Blues' win in the London derby, the general consensus was that Maxwel Cornet's late equaliser for the Hammers should have stood. This is despite both Thomas Tuchel and Graeme Souness pushing back against the claims that the technology in this incidence helped produce a 'scandalous' outcome, according to both Declan Rice and David Moyes.
