Liverpool lost 1-2 to Tottenham Hotspur last week, and Luis Diaz's goal in the first half was wrongly ruled offside, causing great repercussions in the soccer world. The Professional Referee Company of the United Kingdom (PGMOL), under pressure, made public the recordings of conversations of the refereeing team during the incident on Tuesday (3), and the culprit, the VAR referee, Ingren, was aware of the mistake at that time, but he used the excuse that he could not do anything to help, so it is no wonder that the Liverpool fans are furious. No wonder Liverpool fans are angry.
After Luis Diaz's goal was ruled offside, VAR referee Englund mistakenly thought that the main referee, Simon Hobbs, had ruled that the goal was scored. According to the publicly available audio recording, after Englund said that "the check was completed", Simon Hobbs praised the team for "doing a good job", but the mistake was discovered by the "replay operator" very quickly, and a series of unthinkable conversations ensued:
Are you satisfied with this decision?
VAR Assistant Licensee (Quirk): Yeah.
REPLAY OPERATOR: Are you happy with this decision?
VAR Assistant Referee (Quirk): Offside, in... It's a mistake, Englund.
Englund: Bleh?
Replay Operator: The goal was ruled offside, are you satisfied with this image? No, the image shows that the goal was not offside.
Englund: Oh! FxxK!
Replay operator: pause, pause. Ollie (PGMOL control room supervisor) words to pause, Ollie words to pause.
ENGLAND: Repeat.
REPLAY OPERATOR: Ollie called for a timeout and ruled it was offside.
Englund: Nothing can be done!
Replay Operator: ollie word suspension of play, ollie word suspension of play.
Englund: Ollie?
REPLAY OPERATOR: Stop the game, to stop the game? Stop the game.
ENGLAND: They've opened up a wave and there's nothing they can do about it, nothing they can do about it.
Quirk: They've already started, there's nothing they can do about it.
Englund: There's nothing I can do about it, nothing I can do about it, FxxK!
