Alan Shearer

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Well, I mean, what a finale to that game between West Ham and Arsenal.

Sort of sums things up a little bit that VAR could decide who wins the league.

clearly the defender where was VAR for that one it was the one first game of the season as well wasn't there Old Trafford but yeah that's where we are with it probably probably a foul though for me probably a foul but that's not quite what VAR is supposed to be is it if I were a West Ham fan or indeed a Manchester City fan I think I'd be a little bit

angry tonight because there was a lot of fouling going on at that corner.

There was a lot of grappling by Arsenal players on the West Ham attackers.

I know that goalkeepers are protected more than anyone else and it was probably a foul on him.

But do you not then look at what happened before where people have been held, which is probably more an obvious foul.

But, you know, they turned it over.

You know, it depends where the bar is at the moment.

It must be a low bar at the moment to turn that one over, I would have thought.

But yeah, it was probably a foul.

Do you think they were perhaps influenced by the gravitas of the situation, the importance, the significance of it all?

Do you think that, I mean, it took a long time?

Yeah, what a goalkeeper he is.

What a goalkeeper he is.

The first substitution they made though, it seemed to change things quite a lot.

After Ben White went off, obviously injured, they'd previously had seven shots in the first 14 minutes.

They made 149 passes and 91 passes in the opposition half in the opening 27 minutes, but then recorded 108 passes and just 54 in West Ham's half in the period after Ben White was substituted and