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Man Utd legend Peter Schmeichel fumes over disallowed West Ham goal

Man Utd legend Schmeichel fumes over disallowed West Ham goal
Man Utd legend Schmeichel fumes over disallowed West Ham goalDennis Goodwin/ProSports / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia

Peter Schmeichel has strongly criticised the officiating after Arsenal’s controversial 1-0 win over West Ham United.

The former Manchester United goalkeeper was furious after a late equaliser from Callum Wilson was ruled out following a VAR review.

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Officials Chris Kavanagh and Darren England disallowed the goal after deciding that Pablo had fouled goalkeeper David Raya. 

Speaking on Viaplay, the Danish legend argued Mikel Arteta’s men from inconsistent decisions, claiming similar physical challenges by the league leaders often go unpunished.

"What really makes me angry is that Arsenal would never be top of the league if that’s a free-kick. That’s how they’ve scored so many goals, by blocking people, holding people, doing all kinds of things,” said Schmeichel.

“And then we get to this point, it takes VAR five minutes, Darren England the VAR, it takes five minutes. He starts it over again and starts it over again and again… that in itself puts so much doubt into that decision that it cannot be a free-kick. 

“I think it’s so wrong. I just don’t understand why all of a sudden that’s a free-kick, because it’s not been for any teams all the way throughout the season. All this, it’s just crazy. And that decision today, it’s just so wrong on so many levels."

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