The beauty of VAR is that it lays bare the bias of the officials towards certain teams. It is there for all to see and removes any doubt. Dont get rid of VAR just get rid of the appaling officials who preside.

He’s offside 😂

Would be interested to hear Mark's take on the Wolves penalty when Emerson arguably gets a touch on the ball, and also Emerson's disallowed goal where foot to foot contact was deemed the offence although it was accidental. All those incidents get turned round it finishes 3-2 to West Ham.

Whats a worse call? This or kalvin phillips getting penalized for a pen against newcastle? West ham have dropped enough points due to VAR. its about time a call goies west hams way

Why is everyone obsessed over the fact that Fabianski can see the ball? His view of the ball isn't what's obstructed, his view of Kilman is obviously obstructed and so Chirewa was deemed to be interfering with play. Whether you think the goal should stand or not, the reason why the decision was made isn't exactly difficult to grasp

By that logic, I think every PL team should put a player right in front of the opposing keeper then get another player to fire it into the bottom corner. Going by your logic, that's not offside. It's offside, simple as. There's no debate about it, he was centimeters in front of Fabianski.

Brian Clough said if your on the pitch your involved in play simple as that all this nonsense not involved in play

They're wrong. It was the correct decision

Halsey is missing something important. The ball just leaves corner kickers boot , Fabianski is moving forwards but was stopped by their player , they touch , he has to step backwards. That player is active , previously interfered with the outcome and now in an offside position. Dermot Gallagher has said 90 other refs would agree it was offside but Halsey is just doing it to be controversial just like some of his rubbish contentious decisions when he was a referee (just want's attention all the time).

Sorry I understand why Wolves fans are upset however look at the slo-mo replay from the reverse angle and you can clearly see two things. 1 the Wolves player is directly IN FRONT of Fabianski. I repeat in front, not the left, not to the right. 2 by being in that position he prevents the keeper from moving forward and cutting off the angle. If that isn’t in the line of sight what is? Most fans are so partisan it’s impossible to have reasoned debate. Still that’s football I guess

Right decision. If you think it's not... 🙁

It’s really not as bad a decision as people are making out. The player was offside and obscuring Fabianski’s vision. How you can be so outraged about it is so confusing to me. Also, when has it been ok to go in on a ref like that and question their professional ability? That used to get you fined.

Gabby sticking up for Wolves, priceless 😂

Offside. He is having a detrimental effect on the keeper standing in offside position. Impossible to say what the keeper would have done if he had not been there.

It was offside...... the player standing in front of the goalie was offside, and if you're standing right on the keeper blocking the header then that's interfering with play........ pretty basic decision........

That goal should of stood but also Emerson goal should of stood as he didn’t intentionally stand on the defender foot ⚒️

If he's in an offside position and blocking the goalkeepers view of the header it has to be interferring with play.

VAR was introduced to look at and correct obvious errors by the referees, which weren't that many. Now it scrutinises every tackle, shot, throw in foul, goal, everything. We are now seeing glaring VAR errors every week, so in my opinion it is not doing what it should be. Football has been ruined, thanks to VAR,

The player was standing right in front of the GK, and he was in an offside position…wether you agree with it or not (I don’t btw) it’s a completely justified decision from the ref

Why has nobody picked up west hams goal Kurt stood in front of Jose sa and he couldn't move

I think Schar's disallowed goal against Fulham for Dan Burn's "foul" is a bigger injustice. If that was a foul, especially where the ball was well over their heads, then there should be freekicks and penalties awarded every time a ball is crossed into the box

Wolves have had more points deducted through VAR this season than Everton have through punishment.

If ever you have a reason to believe in karma its the minutes Wolves are always given in added time against us. In defence also you cannot justify Emerson's goal being disallowed. Their penalty was debateable my feeling is a 3 goal win to westham!

VAR is the worst thing that has happened to premier league football.

Shocking show of misunderstanding of the Laws of the Game, from all three of the Pundits. If you are talking about the spirit of the Game. Ask IFAB to change the Offside law. don't cook the Officials for decision which is 100% correct in law.

Could of fabinski go forward ……….. no

I was there , nobody appealed against that goal. The ref didn't see any issue. Why did VAR get involved. Was it Wolves again. Why is it always Wolves? The Ref at the end couldn't be bothered to talk to the players. He was more interested in dishing out yellows. Sabria mockingly clapped him. Yellow. So now the goalies just have to stand behind a player and claim they were impeded.

Gary o'neil stop crying you should not have your player obstructing the goal keeper in an offside position if you think you can cheat a goal or manipulate people to get your own way west ham have had more goals then anyone taken away by var get over it

Good to see dermot backing the referee up this morning!!

Whys Halsey talking like he didnt a whole heap of decesions incorrect, what a plonker

So in your opinion standing in front of the keeper on a direct free kick is okay so long as the keeper wouldn't get to the ball

Offside and interference, could not be more simple

This is getting ridiculous,we have had 8 VAR decisions worse than this one that’s cost us points,but no public outcry for us little old West Ham.Sick of the bias against us from MSM.Offside those are the rules correct or not but were applied to letter of the law offside get over it

The wolves player was backing in to Fabianski. Offside, end of, move on.

The argument that an Ex-Player may have bias in the VAR room is nonsense!!! An Ex-Player can do the courses and exams and become a referee.All referee's got into the job because they are football fans, they all have hometowns and support teams in their personal life. You're not telling me that no referee doesn't have a slight bias towards certain teams. But when you do the job in front of millions, you can't get caught out with obvious bias decisions.

Earlier this season, Man City were given a goal under VERY similar circumstances. Double standards?

Bring back old school football when striker ball and goalie hammered into goal. Why is it different now compared to years ago. Because goalies are molly coddled 😊😊

Gabby hates wolves and even he says it’s a goal

see VAR should go but then what happens is that there are so many cameras and so many pundits scrutinizing everything and picking up mistakes then var will come back

incompetence or corruption??

God, kettle calling pit black. Time Referees got some guts and stick by the Laws of the Game.

Big fine incoming!

Wolves manager, what a child, boohoo

Anyone who thinks this was a goal clearly doesn’t know anything about football. Go back to school.

It should be scrapped immediately until they can come up with a version that actually works - I was all for it IF it wiped out mistakes etc but it is worse than the previous system! I'm West Ham and we have lost so many points over the last few weeks because of inept VAR decisions, it's a joke!

VAR has ruined football end of, it is not fit for purpose. Anyone that knows anything about our beautiful game knows that this was a perfectly good goal. This garbage is happening week after week for all the clubs in the Prem. I've been watching some Championship games lately and it's an absolute joy with no VAR, the games flow with none of horrible revue delays after every goal etc. Ditch VAR!

Yeah lets get a player in there to judge decisions, because all footballers would obviously get all decisions correct 🙄

Same old shhheet different day…

It was offside.

We need to go back to the old rule if your behind the last defender doesn't matter where on the pitch your offside it's not rocket science none of this his not interfering with play shouldn't be on the pitch as Mr clough would say

You Cannot be offside from a Corner to the Individuals who do not know what their talking about..

Var...was that a yawn Alan?

Thank god Halsey doesn’t ref anymore what a muppet

The trouble is the refs dont seem to have any ground to apply common sense or pragmatic decisions from the powers above. I dont even believe var is a specialist position.... every regular punter can see when a decision is wrong...The rules dont seem to allow for any flexibility. Id like to see refs ignoring var at times and sticking to their decisions too

Have var had a good game all season I don't think so

Don't care... it wasn't given as a goal.... same as many other teams have been robbed by VAR interference over these past couple of years. Argue all you like... it ain't gonna change

Wolves, Forest and Burnley have been screwed with decisions this season. If something happens to Liverpool or United or one of the big teams it’s news for a month. This nonsense happens to the ‘smaller’ teams every week and no one bats an eyelid.

Good decision, well done ref, Emerson’s goal should have stood, so Wolves got away with one at least

Corruption plain and simple

Why talk about that one incident. The penalty wolves got was controversial as was Emersons goal that was controversially dissallowed. On balance the result still stands. West Ham have been on the receiving end of poor Var more than any other club over the last two years. They owe us a few good ones.

Anyone with half a brain, should've realised VAR would never work because apart from offside everything is subjective. The one thing it normally gets right is offside but even that we feel cheated by, we wanted VAR to get those offsides that were so egregiously wrong, a yard onside or 2 yards off but now we get 5mm offside as if that would've prevented the majority of these goal. This one its highly unlikely Fabianski will save it but the fact he is standing there in front of Fabianski he is interfering by simply being there, under the rules it does tick the boxes, yep don't want it given against me but want it given for me. We've changed the rules of the game to implement VAR and make it quicker, apart other sports adding a referral rule, none have changed the actual playing laws of the sports to implement their review systems. Football is unique at the speed it moves and the immediate direction changes it has ove the 3 dimensions, as long as we have subjective rules VAR will NEVER work constantly , and the rules will always be subjective in the main!

But a West Ham player was on the line so how can there be an offside?

VAR needs to go. Completely ruined the game and it’s no long enjoyable to watch. At the very least they need to change it to a challenge system like other sports

The laws of the game state he is offside, like it or not that's the way it is.

You're so wrong Halsey. He backed into Fabianski twice so that he had to push him off and couldn't make a choice to come out to the ball or move or dive as he was being interfered with.Obviously offside. No wonder you don't ref any more if that's your idiotic opinion. Red card for that non punch as well? Have you taken your medication this morning Mark?

They don't want wolves chasing top six just as much as west ham , but I think out of the two evils they would prefer west ham than wolves, bit more big chew ready , but west ham have had biased refs var pundits commentators against✌️ the little east London club✌️ for years I mean years. 'X'

Football is aids these days.... soul has gone just turned into a supremely wet non contact sport

Stop this, 'we need ex players'. Im not an ex proffesional, and everyone else here, we all know the rules and that was a goal.

So what we gonna do then -- just keep talking about it - this season has been a joke and there is no accountability so the refs ain’t bothered - have you noticed sky presenters have stopped critising referees - it’s clear carragher and co have been warned by the bosses to stop ref criticism - I noticed it with the doku challenge at Liverpool the 4 pundits were the only people who didn’t think it was a pen - sky belong in Russia or North Korea they bully their employees and actually do carry up their threats ask Matt LeTissier and dozens of others - shameful have to come on KZfaq now to get the truth

It’s all a scam that’s why! End of

Curupt 😊

Offsite all day long

Another shocking decision by the ref and VAR!

Corruption!

Blah blah blah talk shite as usual...... Whys Emersons disallowed goal not being discussed,the Wolves player cheated as Emersons only got his eyes on the ball yet the geezers rolling around like a sniper had taken him out......