"Just incredible..." - Former FIFA man left stunned at "major" error involving Liverpool

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Former FIFA and Premier League referee Keith Hackett is stunned that Cody Gakpo wasn’t awarded a penalty in Liverpool’s 2-0 victory away to Ipswich Town. Speaking to Football Insider, Hackett couldn’t believe the incident, criticising referee Darren England’s role in it, having previously been doing a good job: “When you look at it, it’s just incredible that the referee has missed it and then VAR has not come in.

If we start to examine it, it’s possible that the referee, in a good position, has actually followed the flight of the ball moving away and actually not held his gaze, which he’s supposed to do. It has to be a penalty kick, and it has to be a yellow card.

Liverpool were denied a penalty kick, simple as that.” A continued lack of VAR consistency in the Premier League This was just the latest in a baffling string of incidents in the Premier League that have gone on for years, ever since VAR was introduced into the English game. There continues to be no consistency whatsoever – the Gakpo foul would have been awarded in other matches – and this relates to every Premier League team, rather than Liverpool simply always being the ones on the wrong end of bad decisions.