{"id":289683,"date":"2023-09-05T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=289683"},"modified":"2023-09-05T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:36:50","slug":"revealed-key-reason-why-wolves-did-not-get-a-penalty-at-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/revealed-key-reason-why-wolves-did-not-get-a-penalty-at-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: Key reason why Wolves did not get a penalty at Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a new directive for greater transparency on the big decisions across the Premier League, refereeing chief Howard Webb has revealed why Wolves were not awarded a penalty late in their defeat at Manchester United.<\/p>\n
Webb was speaking on the PGMOL’s first Match Officials Mic’d Up<\/span> show,\u00a0joined by\u00a0<\/span>Michael Owen in the studio for the 26-minute programme.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the most controversial decisions was Simon Hooper’s decision not to punish Man United\u00a0goalkeeper Andre Onana for a reckless collision with Wolves’ Sasa Kalajdzic.<\/p>\n ‘No way,’ audio from referee Hooper shows him saying, ‘it’s like collisions, we don’t give those.’<\/p>\n VAR Michael Salisbury then interjects: ‘Delay, delay, checking a possible penalty. I want to view this, because I think Onana collides into, he tried to win the ball but he’s late. He goes to challenge for the ball and then makes aerial contact with the Wolves player.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Man United goalkeeper Andre Onana went unpunished for this stoppage time collision<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A new show has revealed the conversation audio between the match referee and the VAR<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Refereeing chief Howard Webb has now revealed how VAR wrongly failed not to give a penalty<\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n ‘It’s late and it’s clumsy in my opinion. Dawson wins the header. It’s late, it’s very late on the aerial challenge.’<\/p>\n There is then a debate about the fact that it is Craig Dawson who wins the header, not Kalajdzic, who Onana clatters into.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Because the Wolves player doesn’t head the ball – Dawson wins the header – it’s a normal collision. Check complete,’ Salisbury adds, which satisfies Hooper.<\/p>\n Webb swiftly contacted Wolves in the aftermath to apologise for Hooper and Salisbury’s mistake – which cost Wolves a golden opportunity of a point at Old Trafford – and he has now expanded on exactly how Gary O’Neil’s side were failed by VAR that night.<\/p>\n ‘We hear the VAR in this circumstance going through the checking phase and he’s describing what he’s seen,’ Webb said.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘He starts to go down the road to recommending a review, but he overthinks it a little bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Sometimes VAR can do that. They’re trying to identify what the game would expect and when he sees them come together, he knows that can happen and it’s not a foul.<\/p>\n ‘He sees it as a collision and two players coming together – the difference with this one, is that Onana jumps in at the Wolves\u00a0player so it’s not two players coming together. It’s one going into another.’<\/p>\n In a wide-ranging discussion, which went beyond Wolves’ misfortune at Old Trafford to include debates around Kai Havertz’s overturned penalty this weekend against Manchester United; Anass Zaroury’s red card; John Egan’s handball penalty; Virgil van Dijk’s red card; and Nathan Ake’s goal v Fulham.\u00a0<\/p>\n The show was produced via Premier League\u00a0Productions and broadcast on both Sky Sports and TNT Sports.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Micahel Owen joined Webb for the show, which will be broadcast on both Sky and TNT Sports<\/p>\n While the process should give fans a clearer idea of a VAR’s decision making in the moment, the call on Onana remains a major frustration to Wolves fans.<\/p>\n In the sixth minute of added time at the end of the match Onana raced\u00a0out for a cross from the right – but failed to get near it and instead hammers into Kalajdzic.<\/p>\n In his protests boss O’Neil was booked and Webb is determined to front up to errors, such as this one.<\/p>\n He added: ‘In the end we didn’t recommend a review…we should have done, we acknowledge that as an error, which is of course disappointing.<\/p>\n ‘We think it’s important we acknowledge clear errors. When it’s clear like this one, we don’t want people to benchmark against this situation.<\/p>\n ‘This was clearly wrong \u2013 if this happens the following week, we expect a penalty to be given. So, I think it’s only right we acknowledge errors when they happen, acknowledge that wasn’t correct; and we expect to see something different next time.’<\/p>\n Referee Hooper and VAR Michael Salisbury were both dropped following the mistake after failing to realise that United goalkeeper Onana had fouled Kalajdzic in the 1-0 loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\nIT’S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n