Bournemouth broke a basic rule when they netted their nine-second goal against Arsenal.

And former referee Graham Poll insists the strike should NOT have stood in Saturday's thrilling league fixture.

That's because several Cherries players were already in Arsenal's half when they kicked off the game.

He told BettingSites: “VAR once again appeared to let Arsenal down on Saturday as both the ref, Chris Kavanagh, and his colleagues at Stockley Park failed to punish the fact that a number of Bournemouth players were in the opposing half before the kick-off at the start of the match.

“Kavanagh should have seen the encroachment and ordered the kick-off to be retaken long before Bournemouth got into the Arsenal penalty area.

“This happens in a vast number of games but a goal does not follow within 10 seconds and so the offence goes unnoticed and unpunished.

“Had the player who encroached the most, Antoine Semenyo, been the player who scored, there could well have been an intervention by VAR.

“But with Howard Webb now in charge we will only see less technical offences that are missed being corrected."