Jeff Stelling has joined those who don’t agree that Tottenham deserved the penalty which Harry Kane converted to give Spurs the lead earlier today.
Ezgjan Alioski was adjudged to have fouled Steven Bergwijn in the Leeds United penalty area in the first half.
It was a tricky decision with the contact appearing to have happened outside the box.
Referee David Coote and his video assistant Paul Tierney looked at the incident for some minutes and they eventually agreed that the penalty happened inside the box.
Several fans and pundits have faulted that decision, and Stelling, who was working on Soccer Saturday, reckons that the contact clearly happened outside the penalty area and Bergwijn simply fell inside the box.
He added that it wasn’t a foul in which the player continued contact until they got into the box, rather it was just a trip.
He said as quoted by the Yorkshire Evening Post: “They [Spurs] are winning, but look, I’m lost. I don’t understand it anymore.
“Looking along the line, the contact was clearly three or four inches outside of the box.
“It wasn’t a foul whereby contact continues into the box, it was just a trip.
“It was outside the box – well, that was my opinion. David Coote and Paul Tierney were the ones who disagreed with that.”
Stelling clearly does not understand the rules that govern VAR, it has to be a clear and obvious error to overturn a decision and that was not clear, certainly not as clear as Paul Pogba tripping Paul Pogba and getting a penalty.
Even if it was a dodgy decision it was nothing compared to the diabolical decision against Eric Dier against Newcastle United but I never saw too much whining then.