Brentford 5-2 Leeds: Fan offered referee money while checking VAR monitor

VAR was the huge talking point from Saturday’s entertaining Premier League fixtures.

The technology, which many fans still detest, was used to make some very dubious calls.

In West Ham‘s 2-1 defeat away at Chelsea, Maxwel Cornet had a goal chalked off after VAR declared that Jarrod Bowen hadfouled Edouard Mendy in the build-up.

It was an incredibly harsh call and Newcastle had a goal cheaply disallowed too in their match against Crystal Palace for an apparent infraction by Joe Willock.

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Yeah, it really wasn’t a good day for VAR and Leeds fans also weren’t overly happy with the use of the technology during their 5-2 defeat away at Brentford.

In the first half, a penalty was awarded to the home side for a challenge by Luis Sinisterra on hat-trick hero Ivan Toney inside the box.

The referee didn’t initially give it as a foul, but was asked to go check the pitchside monitor and he eventually overturned his decision.

It was very soft and you can understand why those in the Leeds contingent are unhappy.

The fact the away side were then denied a penalty of their own in the second half, for what appeared to be a much more blatant foul on Crysencio Summerville, only added to their anger.

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