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It’s fair to say it wasn’t a great weekend for Premier League officials.

There were several controversial incidents that the referees, quite frankly, got wrong.

Whether it was disallowing West Ham’s late equaliser against Chelsea, chalking off Newcastle’s goal against Crystal Palace, prematurely flagging Philippe Coutinho for offside before he scored against Manchester City or missing Virgil van Dijk’s potential red card challenge on Amadou Onana during the Merseyside derby, the officiating was far below the standard we expect.

And that’s just a few incidents on the very same day.

It led to Match of the Day pundit, Alan Shearer, going on a passionate rant.

“‘Minimum interference, maximum benefit’, was what we were told when VAR was brought in,” Shearer began.

When talking about Newcastle’s disallowed goal during their 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace, where Joe Willock was adjudged to have fouled Vicente Guaita, with the VAR officials missing that Palace defender Tyrick Mitchell had pushed Willock into the goalkeeper, Shearer said: “They should be told to stay out of it the VAR officials. This was never ever, ever a foul. And I don’t think anyone who has played the game will agree with the VAR Jared Gillett and the referee Andy Madley.”

West Ham also saw a goal disallowed when Jarrod Bowen was accused of fouling Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy before Maxwell Cornet smashed the ball home.

“The keeper [Mendy] goes down because he realises he’s made a wreck,” Shearer said. “[Jarrod] Bowen just steps over him, he doesn’t interfere with the play.

“We saw Michael Oliver stick to his decision when he went over to the monitor [to review a penalty incident in Bournemouth’s win over Nottingham Forest]. Why doesn’t he [Madley] stick