Philippe Auclair

And I think perhaps we should move back a little bit and say the right decision was taken.

It was a foul.

It was the most consequential foul of them all in the box at the time.

The right decision was given, but the consequences are absolutely huge.

And this is the problem.

The problem becomes, it's not the game.

It's not even the incident.

The problem is about the consequences of using VAR in those particular situations.

And which goes way beyond even the title or the relegation is the fact that obviously the system...

doesn't quite work as it should work.

And that there is a real problem in particular with free kicks, dead ball situations, basically, which is why at least try, I think they have tried out actually the encroachment rule in a couple of tournaments and it worked out okay.

Whether it would work okay in a game which has got so much, again, so many consequences hanging onto it, I don't know, but probably worth a try because the fact that we're all talking about it and we cannot not talk about it

is an indication that there's something here which is deeply wrong because we should be talking about, there were plenty of other things to talk about in this game, be it about West Ham being about Arsenal, which are admirable things or not so admirable things, but they go in the background and that in itself is bad.

And the thing is that the fact that he's, well, you can see, it's quite extraordinary because he's rooted to the spot.

And usually when a keeper is rooted to the spot, it means that he's thinking, oh shit, I don't stand a chance here.

And so, and he tenses up.

He doesn't, he's super relaxed.

He doesn't move.

And in fact, you can almost feel Matheus Fernandes thinking, well, the keeper's going to do something.

The keeper's going to do something.