Former referee claims ‘Lucky’ Coventry City

“Where they (Coventry) were unlucky obviously was the goal disallowed for offside. Now, I thought it looked like a perfect blank. Then you look at the replay and they draw those lines, but those lines aren’t always in the right position, are they?

“That’s why we need semi-automatic offside, because then we know exactly. This (decision) took forever. Semi-automatic offside, in a few seconds we’ll know.”

The writer’s vision

Arguments can be formulated in any way on this. According to the letter of the law, Wright was offside according to the lines drawn by VAR. However, as Halsey said, there are zero guarantees that they were inserted in the right place. While technology is still controlled by humans, there will always be that element of doubt and reason for debate.

As for Coventry’s late penalty, it was certainly tough on Manchester United. Wan-Bissaka appears to lunge for the ball while keeping his arms in what can be classed as a natural position. There was really nowhere else to go. Still, this is one of those decisions that would have been debated late into the night in the local pub before VAR.

With all that said, VAR robbed us of one of the greatest FA Cup comebacks in history, whether it was the right call or not.