Richard Keys uses Everton incident as he rages at Liverpool controversy, ‘absolute nonsense’
Richard Keys has used an incident in the Everton game against Luton Town to highlight where the officials went wrong with a controversial moment for Liverpool at Tottenham.
Speaking on beIN SPORTS on Saturday (30 September), the presenter noted that it took VAR three minutes and 20 seconds to decide to award Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goal in the Blues 2-1 defeat to the Hatters.
After Luis Diaz had a goal wrongfully ruled out for offside and VAR didn’t intervene properly in the Reds’ 2-1 loss to Spurs, Keys said he doesn’t buy the PGMOL’s reasoning that it wanted to keep the game moving after it took so long to make a decision on the goal in the other game at Goodison Park.
“I do not buy the reason that we have been given from the production team, which is ‘well it keeps the game moving so we don’t want it to change’,” said Keys.
“Absolute nonsense. Three minutes and 20 seconds at Goodison today to define whether Calvert-Lewin was onside or off, three minutes and 20 seconds.”
Bizarre
It’s utterly bizarre that the officials managed to get the decision in the Liverpool game so wrong when it was clear that Diaz was onside.
Although there won’t be much sympathy for the Reds from Everton fans, it isn’t a good sign for anyone to see incidents like this happening when there is so much on the line and people pay a lot of money to go to the games.
Keys is right to point out the incident at Goodison because it shouldn’t take more than three minutes to decide whether to award a goal or not, either.
It’s beyond ridiculous how some of the officials are managing games at this moment in time and there are far too many high-profile mistakes being made.
While the Blues will have been pleased to see Calvert-Lewin’s goal be given, it won’t provide them with too much comfort, though, after they eventually lost the game.
In other Everton news, Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have agreed on a “devastating” concern at Goodison.