Bournemouth are unlikely to be able to mount a successful legal challenge after they were relegated by a single point that Aston Villa earned in controversial circumstances, i can reveal.
Villa conceded a “goal” against Sheffield United in June that was not awarded by referee Michael Oliver after Hawk-Eye’s cameras failed to spot the ball had clearly crossed the line. The video assistant referee did not flag up the error either.
Hawk-Eye apologised for the mistake at the time and the match finished goalless. On the final day of the season Villa stayed up, a point ahead of relegated Bournemouth. Had they both finished with 34 points, however, Villa would have been relegated on goal difference.
“While Bournemouth will no doubt be ruing its relegation, the club will find it enormously difficult to bring a successful legal challenge based on the failure by Hawk-Eye,” Simon Leaf, head of sport for law firm Mishcon de Reya, told i.
“One of the main problems for Bournemouth is that the Premier League rules make it perfectly clear that matches are to ‘proceed even if goal-line technology is unavailable for part or all of’ the match and that the ‘referee’s decision as to whether a goal has been scored shall be final’.
“The rules that Bournemouth have signed up to make it clear that clubs need to accept that the system may not work and that in the case of match decisions the buck stops with the referee.
“As a result, a claim against the Premier League (including the match officials) would be tough to establish… [and] unlikely to succeed.”
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