The Premier League has asked referees’ body PGMOL to review VAR incidents at Chelsea and Newcastle on Saturday.

On Saturday a series of decisions that were either overturned thanks to the intervention of VAR or not given despite the presence of the review system infuriated managers of multiple teams, who were unable to contain their feelings post-match.

The incidents included:

There have been other flashpoints over the first weeks of the season.

Chelsea were the victims of an incorrect call last month, with Mike Dean – who was on VAR duty at the time – later admitting he should have advised a red card for Spurs defender Cristian Romero after he pulled Marc Cucurella’s hair at a corner.

Dean claimed in a newspaper column he had just a “few seconds” to review the incident, despite taking more than a minute to decide Romero had no case to answer.

Antonio Conte was left perplexed by VAR decisions that went against his side against both Nottingham Forest and West Ham, with the Spurs boss questioning whether the Premier League should get rid of the system completely as “no one is happy” with it.

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