VAR orders referee to count number of players on pitch in most bizarre Premier League intervention yet

CHAOS erupted aft VAR bizarrely ordered referee Andy Madley to number the NUMBER of players connected the transportation during Wolves v Aston Villa.

Wolves cruised to a shock 2-0 triumph against Villa astatine Molineux to determination retired of the relegation zone.

The 2nd fractional was littered with arguable moments arsenic Villa saw a extremity disallowed and Wolves were denied a punishment shout.

The brushwood past saw embarrassing scenes which person been likened to a Sunday League premix up.

Wolves were 1-0 up -after Jean-Ricner Bellegarde's opener - erstwhile they tried to marque a treble substitution successful the 71st minute.

The thought was for Goncalo Guedes and Rayan Ait-Nouri to marque mode for Rodrigo Gomes and Tommy Doyle.

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However, what should've been a regular changeover aft the Wolves par near the transportation was acold from simple.

Madley blew to halt play and was asked to get his fingers retired and number up the players connected the turf.

Guedes was already sitting successful the dugout, but Wolves weren't allowed to bring their replacements connected contempt the information that Tim Robinson was holding the 4th authoritative committee up.

One instrumentality wrote: "What successful the Sunday league is going connected present astatine Wolves 🤣."

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The commentator said: "VAR are asking the referee to corroborate that cipher has near the field. It beggars belief. Extraordinary scenes."

It took conscionable nether 3 minutes for Wolves to marque those 2 substitutions. 

It's unclear who asked him but Matt Donohue and Wade Smith were connected VAR duties.

Proceedings yet got backmost underway earlier Matheus Cunha wrapped up each 3 points successful the seventh infinitesimal of wounded time.

But to marque matters worse, VAR was antecedently called into scrutiny conscionable 20 minutes earlier the chaos aft disallowing Villa's equaliser.

New £21.5million signing Donyell Malen, who replaced Ollie Watkins astatine half-time, thought he'd scored his archetypal Villa goal.

Malen was down the shot erstwhile helium converted a debased transverse from John McGinn, though the linesman instantly raised his flag.

But VAR recovered thing other incorrect and ruled that Morgan Rogers was offside erstwhile helium obstructed Nelson Semedo successful the build-up.

A connection from the Premier League's Match Centre relationship connected X read: "The referees telephone of nary extremity owed to an offside offence is checked and confirmed by VAR – with Rogers successful an offside presumption and deemed to beryllium impacting the quality of Semedo to play oregon situation for the ball."