{"id":517787,"date":"2026-09-14T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517787"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:32:17","slug":"no-weekend-match-for-manchester-derby-var-referees","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/no-weekend-match-for-manchester-derby-var-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"No weekend match for Manchester derby VAR referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video assistant official for the Manchester derby, Matt Donohue, and his assistant VAR, Blake Antrobus, have not been picked for this weekend\u2019s EPL matches.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s refereeing body, Pro Ref, made the decision through its chief refereeing officer, Howard Webb, and his team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING! \ud83d\udca3<\/p>\n<p>Matt Donohue and Blake Antrobus have been STOOD DOWN for the weekend following the Manchester Derby on Sunday. \u274c<\/p>\n<p>Decision made by Pro Ref boss Howard Webb. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeKeegan_DM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@MikeKeegan_DM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WATcNvs40s\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WATcNvs40s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Polymarket FC (@PolymarketFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolymarketFC\/status\/2099525414590779442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This follows Pro Ref&#8217;s admission of an &#8220;error of judgment&#8221; in awarding Erling Haaland&#8217;s winning goal for the Sky Blues against the Red Devils yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian goal scorer netted in the 60<sup>th<\/sup> minute at Old Trafford after Josko Gvardiol&#8217;s assist.<\/p>\n<p>However, the goal was initially disallowed for offside, but after VAR review, it was awarded after Patrick Dorgu was ruled to have played onside.<\/p>\n<p>The big problem is that the goal should have been disallowed because Manchester City&#8217;s newest transfer, Enzo Fernandez, was in an offside position and interfered with play as he tried to score before the ball reached Erling, and he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video assistant official for the Manchester derby, Matt Donohue, and his assistant VAR, Blake Antrobus, have not been picked for this weekend\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517788,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27179],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[27180],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The VAR officials from the derby will not work this upcoming weekend.","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\/517787"}],"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=517787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517790,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517787\/revisions\/517790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517787"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517787"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}