DAN BURN was satisfied that Newcastle ought to’ve been awarded a second penalty in opposition to Brentford on Saturday.
The Magpies clinched a slim 1-0 win over Thomas Frank’s facet due to a second-half spot-kick from Callum Wilson.
Nonetheless, Burn believed his group ought to’ve scored one other.
The defender appealed for an additional penalty within the 82nd minute after the ball appeared to make contact with Bryan Mbeumo’s hand.
And he did so whereas swearing at referee Craig Pawson.
Whereas Pawson was reviewing the incident on the pitchside monitor, Burn was overheard saying: “That is a f***ing stonewall penalty!”
Followers took to Twitter to react, with one individual writing: “Given Brentford received a penalty in opposition to Burn final season for the exact same purpose you may see why he thinks this.”
One other added: “They alter the principles each week.”
Whereas a 3rd individual disagreed, commenting: “By no means a penalty. It hits the Brentford participant’s head earlier than it hits his hand, would have cherished for it to be given however wasn’t a penalty and we might say it wasn’t a penalty if it was the opposite method round and it occurred to us.”
Burn was not given a warning for his x-rated blast.
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The penalty incident was one in all a number of controversial VAR selections on Saturday.
Manchester United followers felt that they have been wrongfully denied a objective throughout their conflict with Brighton after the ball was deemed to be out of play earlier than Rasmus Hojlund fired it into the web.
And Tottenham supporters believed they need to’ve been awarded a penalty in opposition to Sheffield United after James Maddison went to floor following a problem from Chris Basham within the field.
