The Premier League have appointed a cup final strong set of officials to look after Newcastle United's home game with AFC Bournemouth this weekend at St James' Park.
United were left furious by a VAR decision from both Michael Sailsbury and Lee Mason to disallow Marc Guehi's own goal after Joe Willock was wrongly adjudged to have fouled Crystal Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita at the Leazes End. TV replays later showed that the goal should have stood and that Sailsbury had been shown an unbalanced view of the incident.
The decision left Eddie Howe unhappy and Alan Shearer furious in his Match of the Day analysis. The Premier League have offered United a strong officiating line-up in the aftermath of the incident.
FA Cup final referee Craig Pawson - who oversaw Liverpool's penalty shoot-out win over Chelsea at Wembley this year - will be the man in the middle. And the man in the VAR box this time around will be Nuneaton's Stuart Attwell who took charge of this year's League Cup final involving the Reds and Chelsea, a game also won by Liverpool on spot-kicks.
Shearer slammed the officiating against Palace as "beyond terrible" on a bad weekend for VAR in the last round of fixtures, with incidents in Chelsea's win over West Ham also courting negative publicity.
Eddie Howe said at the time: "Joe's momentum is fixed at that point from his opponent, it then carries him into the goalkeeper.
"But without that push, there's no way that Joe would have gone in with that force, so for me, it's not a foul. If anything, it's a penalty if it's not a goal, so I was very surprised with the outcome."
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