Newcastle assistant manager Jason Tindall and captain Jamaal Lascelles were both left remonstrating with referee Martin Atkinson after he failed to award the home side a penalty during their clash with Manchester City.
Newcastle were already 2-0 down when Ryan Fraser chased a ball through into the City box with defender Joao Cancelo trying to cover across.
Ederson also came flying out of his goal to cover, and while Cancelo collected the ball, the Brazilian goalkeeper went to ground and only made contact with the Newcastle attacker.
Fans and players alike appealed to Atkinson either to award the spot-kick or for the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) to intervene.
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“VAR will have to look at that. It’s clumsy,” said Sky Sports co-commentator Don Goodman.
“It’s a penalty! Surely! He has cleaned him out.
“That is an outrage. You cannot slide into an opponent and just clean him out. It’s a penalty.”
Lascelles and Tindall both approached Atkinson and his assistants to offer their point of view at half-time before the latter had to pull his skipper away.
Magpies legend Alan Shearer was similar incensed.
“It was a disgusting decision,” he told BBC 5 Live.
“I think the officials have been awful today and they have been awful for a long time now. I think certainly this season – so many terrible decisions.
“That is an experienced referee and someone sat watching a screen on VAR. If he cannot tell the referee that is a howler or an error and to give a penalty, what is going on? It is an awful decision.”
At half-time, Sky pundits Jermain Defoe and Jamie Redknapp tried to find reason in the decision-making, but could not.
“It’s a penalty,” said Defoe. “If that’s outside the box it’s a free-kick so of course it’s a penalty.”
When told that the Premier League had pointed out Cancelo coming away with the ball, Redknapp said: “[They] don’t know what’s going on. That’s just a terrible excuse. You can see that he wipes him out! It’s a foul. It’s a penalty.”
View from St James’ Park
By Mark Douglas, i‘s northern football correspondent
If Martin Atkinson’s penalty call was bewildering, the inability of VAR to intervene to correct it bordered on scandalous.
Few inside St James’ Park would have laboured under the belief it would have turned this match in Newcastle’s favour but after Mike Dean’s contentious calls at Anfield on Thursday, Eddie Howe is building a case that his team are hard done by.
Whether Joao Cancelo came away with the ball or not is surely irrelevant when Ryan Fraser was taken out by Ederson with such force.
It was – without doubt – a penalty and exactly the sort of call technology was introduced to rectify.
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