West Ham star Jarrod Bowen has spoken out on VAR as Liverpool receive audio after shambles and lifts the lid on his special arrangement.
If Liverpool are looking for a club to sympathise with their frustrations over VAR then they’d be hard pressed to find a better candidate than West Ham.
Earlier this year Hammers News reported on the shocking fact that West Ham were officially the club worst affected by VAR interventions.
Infamously Jarrod Bowen’s phantom foul on Chelsea goalkeeper of the time Edouard Mendy denied the Hammers a deserved draw last term.
It was dubbed the worst VAR decision yet by West Ham boss David Moyes and pundits.
Shambolic Liverpool incident takes the torch from West Ham as worst VAR moment yet
The same report showed that Liverpool were the team who had benefited most from video tech interventions last season.
Now Liverpool are finding out just how wronged West Ham felt.
Although it must be said the degree of incompetence from the Premier League officials and VAR in denying Liverpool star Luis Diaz his excellent goal at Spurs is clearly next level.
The incident – after which Liverpool revealed they were ‘considering their options’ – has re-opened the already gaping wound of a debate that is the use of VAR in the Premier League.
West Ham star Jarrod Bowen speaks out on VAR as Liverpool receive audio after shambles and lifts lid on special arrangement
Now West Ham star Bowen has spoken out on VAR as Liverpool receive audio after shambles and lifts the lid on his special arrangement.
According to Sky Sports Liverpool are now in receipt of the audio communications between the officials and VAR hub during the game.
Bowen has told Sky Sports News (Tuesday 1pm), he sympathises with Liverpool. And he says VAR has completely changed the enjoyment of the most special element of football – scoring goals.
The Hammers attacker, who scored against Liverpool at Anfield recently, revealed he has a special arrangement with scouser Kevin Nolan before he allows himself to celebrate goals.
‘If that happened to you, it’s obviously cost you the game at the end of the day’
“When I score I’m always running past the dugout and I’m always on to Kev Nolan and I always just put my thumb up for him to say (whether it’s a goal or not) and he’ll be like (indicating yes or no).
“And it gives you a relief (if its thumbs up) because you do kind of second guess now. I think in the moment, unless you look around and the ref has given a foul or the linesman has put his flag up, then you think you can celebrate. But it’s almost ‘Am I celebrating for nothing here’.
“But once I get the thumbs up from Kev (it’s all good). I can ask him for anything. I think I asked him for the Liverpool header last week and there was no chance I was offside but I just wasn’t sure if it was (being checked). You never know what it’s going to get pulled up for, you never know if there’s a foul that’s happened before.
“It is the main talking point at the minute and hopefully it can get sorted and see what happens from that.
“But I think we all saw the (Liverpool) mistake and what happened. I think when you’re a club, if that happened to you, it’s obviously cost you the game at the end of the day so obviously it’s disappointing for them (Liverpool). Moving forward I think we just have to keep going how it is and cut out the mistakes.”
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