Tony Pulis has commented on the controversial refereeing decision in Chelsea’s 2-1 win over West Ham at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
The Blues managed to secure the important win at home, mainly thanks to Ben Chilwell who scored the equaliser and assisted Kai Havertz’s winner.
The most decisive moment, however, came later in the game.
It had looked like West Ham managed to grab a late equaliser in the 90th minute through Maxwel Cornet before referee Andrew Medley, who had to check the monitor, ruled it out for a foul on Edouard Mendy by Jarrod Bowen.
Pulis was clearly not impressed by the refereeing decision.
“[Mendy] parried the ball out, and it is Jarrod Bowen’s momentum that takes him into the goalkeeper,” the former Stoke City manager told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“It is a game of challenges. That’s extraordinary.
“It’s his laces that catch the lad not his studs. That’s ridiculous.”
Many Chelsea fans would argue that if Bowen had made that challenge anywhere else on the pitch, catching another player’s leg late, it would still have been a foul, so why should it have been different on a goalkeeper?
Pulis went on to add: “It’s not VAR, VAR just records the TV footage. It’s the people who are running VAR.
“It’s those human beings who are making the decisions.
“It’s the referees stuck in that office, wherever they are, making the decisions.”
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