Fulham’s objective of the month award for August has been gained by Josh King – regardless of the 18-year-old’s effort not really counting.
Michael Salisbury was on VAR obligation a cross-London conflict between Chelsea and Fulham earlier than the worldwide break as Enzo Maresca’s Blues regarded to take care of their unbeaten begin to the marketing campaign.
Nevertheless, the sport would finally be mired in controversy as a result of a contentious first-half resolution that denied Fulham an opener.
With the sport goalless after 20 minutes, Sander Berge discovered Rodrigo Muniz who proceeded to drift previous Trevoh Chalobah earlier than driving the ball up the pitch.
The Brazilian subsequently performed the ball to King, ebi fired house to the delight of the travelling supporters earlier than Salisbury despatched referee Robert Jones to the monitor to verify for a attainable foul within the build-up.
After reviewing the incident Jones dominated the objective out, with Muniz’s unintended stamp on Chalobah dominated as a ‘reckless problem’ – a call followers have dubbed ‘unbelievable’.
Fulham star Josh King has gained the membership’s objective of the month for August – regardless of his strike not standing
He thought he had opened the scoring in opposition to Chelsea earlier than the trouble was dominated out for a supposed foul
Replays confirmed that Muniz solely made minimal contact with Chalobah and King was left vastly pissed off at seeing the objective disallowed, with referee Rob Jones coming underneath scrutiny.
Chelsea went on to safe all three factors courtesy of targets from Joao Pedro and Enzo Fernandez, leaving Cottagers boss Marco Silva livid.
Had the trouble been allowed to face it will have been King’s first senior objective for Fulham – however he now has a objective of the month award to his title anyway.
Fulham stated that the objective ‘was cruelly taken away from the 18-year-old’ and that he acquired 83.1 per cent of the vote.
Following the furore surrounding the choice, Salisbury was faraway from his place as VAR official for Sunday’s conflict between Arsenal and Liverpool, with John Brooks taking his place.
The choice was additionally criticised by Jamie Carragher on social media, with the previous Liverpool defender writing on X: ‘VAR has had a surprising begin to the season.’
In the meantime, Rio Ferdinand wrote: ‘VAR killing this younger man’s second’.
PGMOL later acknowledged that the choice for VAR to intervene was a mistake.
