It was hard to argue with West Ham manager David Moyes when he commented on Sunday: “We have just seen another ridiculous weekend of decisions.”
Moyes, who is usually fair-minded in such matters, had every right to be upset.
He had witnessed his Paraguayan centre-back Fabian Balbuena being given an absurd straight red card, courtesy of VAR for… well, simply kicking the ball.
Thankfully, the FA had enough sense to rescind the card on Tuesday, backing Moyes’ view that it was a “really, rank rotten decision.”
The worrying aspect is that the VAR official actually saw something wrong with it in the first place.
It’s been replayed on television over and over again and what you see in real time is Balbuena chase a loose ball and whack it downfield as Chelsea’s Ben Chilwell moves in to try and block it.
The Chelsea defender is too late, the ball has already gone but…
