Lee Mason has not been selected for VAR duty for the next round of Premier League fixtures following his latest contentious performance.
In November, Mason was in the seat at Stockley Park during Nottingham Forest’s controversial draw with Brentford. The Reds had three penalty appeals turned down, only to see Brentford given a spot-kick for a similar level of contact in the box after Mason told on-field referee Andrew Marriner to look at the monitor. The injustice left Forest fans furious.
Mason was in the headlines for the wrong reasons again on Saturday as he failed to spot an offside in the build-up to Brentford’s equalising goal at Arsenal. It was a match-defining incident as the Bees put a dent in the Gunners’ title ambitions by securing a 1-1 draw.
