VAR didn’t have to draw a line to know Ivan Toney was offside in the build-up to Brentford’s goal against Arsenal, reckons Frank McAvennie.
Like most fans and pundits, the former West Ham striker is not happy about the string of mistakes VAR has made recently and was baffled the officials could not see that the England striker was offside.
He insists some people he has discussed the decision with believe Toney was clearly off and it should be easy for officials to spot it.
McAvennie said to Football Insider:
“The thing is you can look at it and say he is offside.
“I can get if he did not draw the lines if he got the right decision, but he made the wrong decision. I have heard so many ex-footballers say that they knew right away that he was offside.
“It is not just the referees now, it is the guys in the VAR room getting it wrong as well. He did not have to put any lines in it, you can see clear as day that it is offside.“
Just Arsenal Opinion
Last weekend was a tough one for match officials, especially VAR, as fans question if the technology is helping as we expected.
It takes so much time to come to a decision and still make the wrong one, but authorities will not discard it, so we must find a way to still win in every circumstance.
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The last weekend match was a big off side that var did not said anything about and I think this is not good enough
Toney scored the goal. It was Norgaard that was offside.
Great article except for the fact that you’re talking about the wrong player. VAR only had a couple of mins to get it wrong……just goes to show that human error can occur eve when you’re not under a lot of pressure
We’re the Manchester City goals also somebody else’s fault .nothing to do with bad defending or the goalkeeper