Howard Webb has admitted that VAR should have stepped in to suggest Nottingham Forest receive a penalty during their Premier League match against Everton.
This acknowledgement comes after Forest caused controversy by publicly criticizing the choice of video referee Stuart Attwell, claiming he favoured Luton Town and lacked impartiality.
Speaking on the TV show Match Officials Mic’d Up, Webb stated that Attwell should have advised referee Anthony Taylor to review an incident involving Ashley Young's tackle on Callum Hudson-Odoi in the penalty area.
Reviewing audio footage, it was clear that Taylor believed Young had touched the ball, which he hadn't, and Attwell interpreted the challenge as part of a "tussle," not a foul.
Webb said: "The referee waves away the penalty decision and the video assistant looks at it and asks whether the non-award was a clear and obvious error and comes to the conclusion it wasn’t."
"He doesn’t see a clear action that he considers worthy of intervention. We would have preferred an intervention on this situation for the referee to go to the screen to make a judgment for himself and probably [we] would have come out with a different outcome if that would have happened."
