The brutal departure of Lee Mason showed how ruthless Howard Webb will be in his battle to lift the standards of Premier League refereeing – and it will only be the start as VAR faced another day of criticism.
Mason left his role as a VAR by ‘mutual consent’ less than a week after The Mail on Sunday revealed he failed to draw offside lines on Ivan Toney’s controversial equaliser at Arsenal.
Yet such swift, decisive action was not enough to quell the tide of fury towards VAR Saturday.
Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi slammed Premier League officials as ‘not good enough’ and even accused head of referees Webb of wasting his time after being sent off in the tunnel after his side’s 1-0 defeat to Fulham.