Luton boss critic’s VAR decisions over penalty in their defeat at Blades’

Luton boss Rob Edwards took aim at the officials after VAR stepped in to award two penalties for handball in their loss to Sheffield United — including one to the Hatters.

First, VAR Paul Tierney sent referee Chris Kavanagh to his pitchside monitor after Luton’s Reece Burke struck the ball with a flailing arm at a corner.

Kavanagh awarded a penalty, which James McAtee scored, then history repeated itself in the second half.

This time it was United and Vini Souza being punished for an alleged handball — Carlton Morris scoring the spot-kick on the way to a 3-1 defeat — but Edwards admitted the decision that fell in his side’s favour was wrong.

‘We dominated massive spells but got punished with a 2-0 loss. I’m taking the penalties out of it,’ said the Luton boss.

‘Neither were penalties, ours or theirs. I don’t know what a penalty is any more.

‘It’s a little bit strange, once they had theirs we appealed for ours.

‘It’s not the referee’s fault, he was told to go and look at it.’

Be the first to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.


*