PRO offers sharp rebuke of Daniel Radford’s VAR performance

It’s not often that PRO calls out their own referees. In their latest video reviewing some of the more controversial calls from Week 12, though, they came about as close as they could to doing just that to fan-favorite Daniel Radford.

As you probably know by now, Radford was the VAR official in charge when the Sounders hosted Orlando City on May 15. He was also the official who suggested head referee Dave Gantar take a closer look at Handwalla Bwana’s goal. To be clear, Radford had good reason to look at the play more closely. At full speed, it did look like Nicolas Lodeiro may have handled the ball during the build up.

But as the video above shows, Gantar saw that and thought it was…