Manchester United have been informed that VAR did not feel Premier League referee Chris Kavanagh's decision to send off Bruno Fernandes was 'clearly wrong' despite the Reds winning an appeal at a later date.
Fernandes was sent off during the defeat to Tottenham Hotspur after a challenge on James Maddison. The dismissal came during a terrible first half with United 1-0 down.
With ten men in the second half, the Reds went on to lose the game 3-0 in a match which put manager Erik ten Hag on the brink of the sack. Last week, the FA confirmed that Fernandes would not serve a three-match ban for the red card which led to questions as to why VAR did not intervene at the time.
In the latest episode Match Officials Mic'd Up, PGMOL head Howard Webb was grilled as to what went wrong on the day that led to Fernandes wrongly being sent off. "The red card was correctly overturned on appeal," he admitted.
"We hear on the audio the assistant referee coming with the information around this being from his position, a red-card offence and the referee takes his advice and issues the red. When you look back on the footage, you see that the contact is high and Bruno Fernandes slips first and puts his foot out to stop Maddison.
"It’s not an attempt for the ball, from the assistant referee’s position - he’s got a good view, a nice open view, a better viewing angle then what the referee has got. [It] looks like there are studs there going into the shin and if there is it would be a red card but it’s just a slight mis-read.