{"id":466159,"date":"2023-10-17T19:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466159"},"modified":"2023-10-17T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:38:53","slug":"vars-to-return-to-pl-officiating-after-liverpool-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vars-to-return-to-pl-officiating-after-liverpool-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"VARs to return to PL officiating after Liverpool scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VAR officials involved when Liverpool were wrongly denied a goal in September\u2019s EPL defeat at Tottenham Hotspur will return for this weekend&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n9bxXlUInH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/n9bxXlUInH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Wheatley (@ChrisWheatley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisWheatley\/status\/1714334663647408504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Referees Darren England and Dan Cook were banned for 2 games that same weekend before being excluded from the previous round of matches.<\/p>\n<p>England will be the 4<sup>th<\/sup> referee for Brentford&#8217;s home match vs Burnley, while Cook will serve as an assistant official for Man. United clash vs. Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>9-man Liverpool 2-1 defeat in London on September 30<sup>th<\/sup> after Jo\u00ebl Matip scored an own goal in the match\u2019s final seconds. However, Liverpool should have taken the lead in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half when Luiz Diaz netted, only for the goal to be disallowed.<\/p>\n<p>PGMOL had to apologize for the error and label it as a &#8220;significant human error.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VAR officials involved when Liverpool were wrongly denied a goal in September\u2019s EPL defeat at Tottenham Hotspur will return for this weekend&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466160,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17317,20216],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17886,682],"acf":{"announce":"The Video Assistant Referees will return to duty in the Premier League after the Reds error.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466162,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466159\/revisions\/466162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466159"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466159"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}