{"id":871,"date":"2026-08-10T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=871"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:01:17","slug":"explained-why-fulham-had-opener-chalked-off-against-chelsea-by-var-as-premier-league-clarify-controversial-referee-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why Fulham had opener chalked off against Chelsea by VAR as Premier League clarify controversial referee decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joshua King looked to have given Fulham a 21st-minute lead at Stamford Bridge, only for the goal to be overturned by referee Robert Jones. To make matters worse, Chelsea, who were second-best in the first half, took the lead in stoppage time through Joao Pedro&#8217;s header. So, here&#8217;s why the Cottagers&#8217; opener was ruled out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/explained-why-fulham-had-opener-chalked-off-chelsea-var-premier-league-clarify-controversial-referee-decision\/bltd6b7f637db3baa8e\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua King looked to have given Fulham a 21st-minute lead at Stamford Bridge, only for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}