The audio from the disputed incident between Andre Onana and Sasa Kalajdzic in Manchester United's win over Wolves has been published by VAR.
Onana's collision with Kalajdzic overshadowed Manchester United's 1-0 victory over Wolves on the opening weekend of the 2018 Premier League season.
VAR checked for a penalty after match referee Simon Hooper disregarded Wolves' pleas for one.
To Gary O'Neil's chagrin, Michael Salisbury, who was on VAR duty, did not advise Hooper to alter his judgement.
The audio from VAR and the referee has since been revealed via the new show Match Officials Mic'd Up.
"So, the custodian goes to challenge for the ball, and he makes aerial contact with the Wolves player," VAR explained. In my perspective, it is late and clunky.BREAKING: VAR has now released audio from the contentious incident involving Andre Onana and Sasa Kalajdzic Nasir Jabbar.
Published at 20:40 on September 5, 2023 BST | Last modified at 21:00 on September 5, 2023 BST
BREAKING: VAR has now released audio from the contentious incident involving Andre Onana and Sasa Kalajdzic.
The audio from the disputed incident between Andre Onana and Sasa Kalajdzic in Manchester United's win over Wolves has been published by VAR.
Onana's collision with Kalajdzic overshadowed Manchester United's 1-0 victory over Wolves on the opening weekend of the 2018 Premier League season.
VAR checked for a penalty after match referee Simon Hooper disregarded Wolves' pleas for one.
To Gary O'Neil's chagrin, Michael Salisbury, who was on VAR duty, did not advise Hooper to alter his judgement.
"But the difference in this one is that Onana jumps into the Wolves player," PGMOL's chief operating officer added. Kalajdzic is simply jumping up, not into Onana. So instead of two players interacting, one enters the other.
"We did not advise a review." We should've done it. We recognise that as an error, which was, of course, disappointing. We definitely used what we learned from that to attempt to avoid making the same mistake in the future.
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"We believe it is critical that we acknowledge obvious errors." We don't want people to compare themselves to situations like this one. This was clearly wrong, and if it happens again the following week, we demand a penalty. So,
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