Wesley’s heel was adjudged to be offside in the build-up to a disallowed Grealish goal BT SPORTConcerned club officials are to talk to Richard Masters, newly confirmed as the Premier League chief executive, about Mike Riley’s handling of VAR which has descended into a global embarrassment for the image-conscious league. Some want Riley dismissed, and a less pedagogical official appointed general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited which oversees VAR at Stockley Park. “He is actually a bit thick,” said one leading club official of Riley. He is the root of the Premier League problem.’’Clubs voted to bring in VAR but their discontent with Riley’s application of technology mounts through every round of games where goals are chalked off through fractional offsides, from heels to armpits. There are doubts in certain quarters over whether…

Source: The Times January 02, 2020 12:06 UTC