Overview
- Liverpool have lodged a formal complaint with PGMOL over the disallowed header at Manchester City, which has been acknowledged without any change to the result.
- Released audio from Match Officials Mic'd Up captures the assistant citing Robertson's ducking in front of Gianluigi Donnarumma before VAR confirmed the on-field offside call.
- Referees' chief Howard Webb said it was "not unreasonable" to deem Robertson's action as impacting the goalkeeper, stressing the VAR's "clear and obvious" threshold to overturn.
- Premier League managers, via the LMA, are pushing for permanent on-field referee and VAR pairings to improve consistency, with PGMOL said to be working toward that model.
- Former Premier League referee Chris Foy judged the incident highly subjective and not a clear and obvious error, reinforcing why the on-field decision stood.