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"Even watching that afterwards, the human eye tells you that’s a penalty. Joe’s perfectly right, the distance between Gallagher, the player who takes the shot, and Soucek, is one of the
key elements." Under new PGMOL chief Howard Webb, VAR has been involved in fewer decisions but Walton feels that at the London Stadium the wrong call was made. "Howard [Webb] has
brought in a new regime where transparency about decision-making is being made more public these days. Cast your mind back to only a few weeks ago in the Manchester derby - Marcus Rashford’s
offside goal - when we analysed it by law it was the correct decision to give a goal," Walton added. "But Howard came out and said actually what does football want? Looking at it
again, he said that would probably be penalised, likewise if you fast forward to today, with the law you could almost defend the player there by saying his arm was in a natural position, but
really football, I think, as a community would want that given as a penalty kick. As a former Premier League referee, I think that was the wrong decision today and it should have been a
penalty kick."