Saturday, 19 January 2019

Where is VAR when you need it?

Saturday19 January 2019, Lordswood 3 Erith Town 1 - Southern Counties East, Premier Division, Martyn Grove



Quite an even first half but both teams did seem to like a moan. Second half started with a bang as the home team number 11 found a good cross and Lordswood found themselves one up. A few minutes later, same player had another cross and we then had a goalmouth scramble - the ball may have even crossed the line twice, however the linesman and Ref decided to give the goal.


from where I stood, it did look like the ball had crossed the line, however the Erith players were not so sure and one decided to tell the ref, in no uncertain terms. A red card was quickly shown and we were fortunate that people stepped in to stop the sent off player continuing his argument with the home fans.



Number 11 again was involved in the third goal but after that the game did clam down and Erith even got a goal back - just think how boring the game would have been if we had VAR at this level?







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