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Liverpool have made a formal request to receive the audio recording between officials from the weekend defeat to Totteham Hotspur.
Refereeing body PGMOL were forced to issue an apology for a “significant human error” after Luis Diaz scored in the first half, only to see the offside flag go up to rule out his strike.
What has since followed can only be described as one of the more chaotic and improbable scenarios in the Premier League since the introduction of the video technology, as it was revealed VAR official Darren England drew lines to check for offside and determined Diaz was actually onside – but failed to realise that on-field referee Simon Hooper and his assistant officials had initially ruled the goal out for offside.
That meant they relayed a “check complete” decision, intending to mean a goal, but actually giving the go-ahead for a restart with a Tottenham free-kick, thus leaving Liverpool without a perfectly legitimate 1-0 lead in a match where they ended up having two sent-off and lost 2-1 late on.
The Reds released a statement saying “sporting integrity [was] undermined” and that they would “explore the range of options […] for escalation and resolution” – with their first step now being to now formally request to PGMOL for the audio between officials to be released to them.
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