VARs to return to PL officiating after Liverpool scandal

The VAR officials involved when Liverpool were wrongly denied a goal in September’s EPL defeat at Tottenham Hotspur will return for this weekend’s matches.

VAR error officials Darren England (fourth official at Brentford vs Burnley) and Dan Cook (assistant at Sheffield Utd v Man Utd) will return to Premier League action this weekend. pic.twitter.com/n9bxXlUInH

— Chris Wheatley (@ChrisWheatley) October 17, 2023

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Referees Darren England and Dan Cook were banned for 2 games that same weekend before being excluded from the previous round of matches.

England will be the 4^th referee for Brentford’s home match vs Burnley, while Cook will serve as an assistant official for Man. United clash vs. Sheffield United.

9-man Liverpool 2-1 defeat in London on September 30^th after Joël Matip scored an own goal in the match’s final seconds. However, Liverpool should have taken the lead in the 1^st half when Luiz Diaz netted, only for the goal to be disallowed.

PGMOL had to apologize for the error and label it as a “significant human error.”