Sandro Tonali of Newcastle complains to referee Chris Kavanagh during Saturday’s FA Cup game against Aston Villa
“Isn’t it nice to have a weekend without VAR, where we can all simply focus on the football and refereeing does not have to dominate the narrative? This just in: that is not how football works. ‘Have we finally found the game that might turn you in favour of VAR?’ presenter Kelly Cates teased a wound-up Alan Shearer in the BBC studio at half-time of his beloved Newcastle United’s FA Cup fourth-round meeting with Aston Villa on Saturday. …”
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