Aston Villa were already seething at trailing to 10-man Brentford and then, four minutes into the second half, those frustrations grew tenfold. Tammy Abraham thought he had made a goalscoring return, his first since winning promotion from the Championship seven years ago, but then it was all eyes on the referee, Tim Robinson, and the big screens that indicated a review. At Stockley Park, the video assistant referee, Paul Tierney, rewound the clock by 19 seconds, to the moment Leon Bailey, at the opposite end of the pitch, was deemed to have failed to keep the ball in play.
After a VAR delay of almost four minutes, Robinson’s mic connected with the stadium speakers. “After review, the ball is factually out of play, so the restart will be a throw-in to Brentford,” the referee said amid mass groans – and much worse – from the restless locals. The Premier League’s Match Centre said the ball was out of play “within the attacking possession phase (APP)”.
Continue reading…Aston Villa were already seething at trailing to 10-man Brentford and then, four minutes into the second half, those frustrations grew tenfold. Tammy Abraham thought he had made a goalscoring return, his first since winning promotion from the Championship seven years ago, but then it was all eyes on the referee, Tim Robinson, and the big screens that indicated a review. At Stockley Park, the video assistant referee, Paul Tierney, rewound the clock by 19 seconds, to the moment Leon Bailey, at the opposite end of the pitch, was deemed to have failed to keep the ball in play.After a VAR delay of almost four minutes, Robinson’s mic connected with the stadium speakers. “After review, the ball is factually out of play, so the restart will be a throw-in to Brentford,” the referee said amid mass groans – and much worse – from the restless locals. The Premier League’s Match Centre said the ball was out of play “within the attacking possession phase (APP)”. Continue reading…