Brighton and Hove Albion head coach Roberto De Zerbi could have been forgiven a hollow laugh when Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp complained about the goal his side had wrongly disallowed away to Tottenham last weekend after a failure of communication between VAR officials.
De Zerbi’s men received no fewer than four apologies from PGMOL, the referees’ organisation, last season after VAR errors – one after Liverpool’s Fabinho was not shown a red card for a foul on Albion’s Evan Ferguson in the FA Cup tie between the clubs at the Amex Stadium.