Webb admits VAR missed offside

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Rafferty

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Ah, Howard Webb say the officials are hurting, may we should put them out of their misery, fire 20% of them, including him

Then hire with the best English speaking refs from across Europe

They obviously know their organisation is failing but instead of doing something useful they just renamed it

September 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM

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VAR with tunnel vision: Referee chief admits errors in Manchester Derby

During Manchester City's 1-0 win over United, the VAR missed an offside position by Enzo Fernández. Haaland's goal should not have counted, according to Howard Webb.

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The Guardian

Howard Webb says accidental handball law ‘a nonsense’ and calls for reform

Webb wants to stop ‘ridiculous situations’ Says VAR officials in United v City had ‘tunnel vision’ Howard Webb has described the law around accidental handball as “a bit of a nonsense” and called for its reform to stop referees being drawn into “ridiculous situations”. The chief refereeing officer for English football made his remarks on Tuesday, when he also fronted up over the error that allowed Manchester City to win Sunday’s Manchester derby. Webb said he was “really disappointed” with the video assistant referee call that failed to spot Enzo Fernández interfering with play from an offside position before Erling Haaland scored the only goal . Continue reading. . .

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The Sidney Morning Herald

'A blatant failure of VAR'

Craig Foster and Tommy Oar unpack Erling Haaland's controversial goal that was awarded by VAR.

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John Foot

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But the Sunderland-Arsenal 'checked and cleared' VAR guys are fine, it seems.

September 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM

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nigelphilipjones.bsky.social

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www.theguardian.com/football/202... Extraordinary word salad used by Chris Foy to justify the Sunderland penalty v Arsenal. Foy’s great insight is that whatever the ref decided, VAR was correct not to overturn it, though from Foy’s description of events you may as well toss a coin! #SUNARS