Callum Wilson scored a 97th-minute penalty to salvage a point for Newcastle United against Tottenham after VAR adjudged Eric Dier to have committed a handball offence.
As Newcastle pressed for an equaliser late on, substitute Andy Carroll rose high to win a header inside the penalty area with the ball rebounding off Dier who had jumped to challenge the towering striker.
After Spurs cleared the ball, Newcastle’s players, led by Carroll, implored referee Peter Bankes to award them a spot-kick but he initially allowed play to continue.
However, it quickly became apparent that the VAR team led by Lee Mason were looking at the incident in greater detail and after deeming that Carroll was onside and that a handball offence had taken place, they advised Bankes to watch it back on his pitchside monitor.
Bankes decided to award the spot-kick and Wilson converted beyond Hugo Lloris for his second Newcastle goal in three Premier League games since joining from Bournemouth for £20m in the summer.
Sky Sports commentator Jamie Carragher lashed out at the decision, saying: “It’s an absolute disgrace, an absolute joke. Newcastle fans will be ecstatic, I can understand that but everyone else in this country will say exactly what I’m saying.
“Eric Dier jumps for the ball, has no control of where his arms are going to be, it was a header half a yard away from him, hits him on the back of his arm, he has no idea what’s going on. This is a joke.
“The Premier League, the FA, Fifa, [chairman of Fifa’s referee’s committee Pierluigi] Collina, whoever is involved in this, stop it because you’re ruining football for everybody. Absolute joke.”
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— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) September 27, 2020
As soon as Wilson’s effort had nestled in the bottom corner, Jose Mourinho turned away from the action and walked down the tunnel. Mourinho’s goalkeeping coach Nuno Santos was sent off after the final whistle had been blown after confronting Bankes on the pitch.
Mourinho refused to discuss the incident directly but made his feelings on it abundantly clear.
“We know that the Tottenham box is a special box,” he told Sky Sports. “We managed to keep them always away and then we had that situation where we lost two points but I’m not going to comment on it.”
He added: “I prefer to give my money to charity, not to the FA.”
It was another controversial handball decision which occurred just 24 hours after Everton had benefited from a similar decision against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
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Palace boss Roy Hodgson was more outspoken on the incident which saw Joel Ward penalised after Lucas Digne’s header had hit his arm from point-blank range.
“It’s completely unacceptable. It’s destroying my enjoyment of the game of football,” said Hodgson.
“I can’t understand how everyone in the game – the Premier League, referees, managers and coaches – have allowed this rule to come into operation. I don’t want to profit from it or lose from it.”
A dreadful day for Spurs was exacerbated when Mourinho confirmed after the game that in-form Son Heung-min is set for a period on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring injury in the first half.
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