Var Official Dropped After Pgmol Admit Mistake Over Fulham Goal

Official Michael Salisbury has been dropped for Sunday's Premier League crippled betwixt Liverpool and Arsenal aft Professional Game Match Officials Limited said it was a correction for nan video adjunct referee to disallow Fulham's opening extremity astatine Chelsea connected Saturday.

Josh King scored 22 minutes into nan crippled only for it to beryllium chalked disconnected pursuing VAR involution for a foul by Rodrigo Muniz successful nan build-up.

Muniz was deemed to person stepped connected nan ft of Chelsea centre-back Trevoh Chalobah while trying to move him adjacent nan halfway line.

The extremity was ruled retired aft a lengthy reappraisal by VAR charismatic Salisbury, which was confirmed by referee Robert Jones aft looking astatine nan pitchside monitor, and Chelsea went connected to triumph 2-0.

Referees main Howard Webb has spoken to Fulham and declared nan determination was an error.

He said nan determination to norm retired nan extremity did not scope nan precocious barroom of a VAR involution arsenic it was not a clear and evident correction by nan referee and should person been a 'referees' call' instead.

As a result, referees' assemblage PGMOL has replaced Salisbury pinch John Brooks for nan Sunday's lucifer astatine Anfield.

More to follow.