The VAR audio from Luis Díaz’s wrongly disallowed goal for Liverpool at Tottenham has been released by the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL), revealing the replay operator was the first person to spot the embarrassing error and urge the team of officials to stop the game.
The PGMOL held an internal review into the humiliating incident and on Monday said it and the Football Association would review the policy that allows officials to officiate matches outside Fifa and Uefa appointments, after it emerged the VAR and the assistant VAR culpable, Darren England and Dan Cook respectively, officiated a match in the United Arab Emirates 48 hours earlier. The PGMOL played down suggestions of mental fatigue, adamant the trip was comparable with refereeing a midweek Champions League or Europa League tie.
