This is what makes the game and its officials a laughing stock, I'm afraid. There was a referee, an assistant, goal line technology and VAR with its various officials. Yet still they fail to see that a goal was scored. It was obvious and easy to check. The TV cameras showed very quickly that the keeper had taken the ball behind the line, which was patently obvious because it showed the ball actually behind the post. It is difficult to see why the normally reliable GDS failed when it normally works to a millimetre or so. But the human factor could have resolved this in seconds.
What I find most incredible is the failure of the referee, a man acknowledged as the best in the country, to consult VAR, and for those at the VAR bunker to fail to alert him. As I said, such a catalogue of errors does the Premier League no credit. If Aston Villa were to survive because of that and relegate, say, Bournemouth, we may have a serious controversy in a few weeks time.
As a light hearted aside, I did see a picture on t'internet of the VAR monitors with Stevie Wonder sat in front of them.