{"id":989,"date":"2026-08-12T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=989"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:47:16","slug":"premier-league-replace-var-for-liverpools-title-showdown-with-arsenal-after-incorrect-intervention-in-chelseas-controversial-win-against-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Premier League replace VAR for Liverpool&#8217;s title showdown with Arsenal after incorrect intervention in Chelsea&#8217;s controversial win against Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The change by refereeing body PGMOL came after Salisbury&#8217;s VAR intervention during Saturday&#8217;s west London derby between Chelsea and Fulham, which saw a goal for the latter disallowed at 0-0 midway through the first half. Chelsea eventually went on to win the game 2-0. Joshua King put the ball in the net for the Cottagers, but Salisbury flagged to on-field referee Robert Jones a potential foul in the build-up. The focus was on inconclusive or minimal contact between Rodrigo Muniz and Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah and the baffling decision was to disallow the goal. The Premier League&#8217;s official Match Centre account on X labelled it a &#8220;careless&#8221; challenge from Muniz, standing on the foot of Chalobah, in justification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/premier-league-replace-var-liverpool-arsenal-incorrect-intervention-chelsea-fulham\/blt1f3e132178da402e\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change by refereeing body PGMOL came after Salisbury&#8217;s VAR intervention during Saturday&#8217;s west London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}