‘I thought he was going over to the screen at first but unfortunately he booked me and not Onana,’ Wolves head coach Gary O’Neil said
The PGMOL, the referees’ body, apologised to Wolverhampton Wanderers within minutes of their controversial 1-0 defeat away to Manchester United after the failure to award them a blatant injury-time penalty.
Wolves’ new head coach Gary O’Neil revealed that he had talked to the former referee Jonathan Moss who is now the Select Group 1 manager at the PGMOL.
“Having spoken to Jonathan Moss he has come out and apologised and said it was a blatant penalty,” O’Neil revealed.
“I sometimes feel bad. I have spent a lot of time with him [Moss] today, given up a lot of my day to understand the new guidelines and trying not to get myself booked in the first game, which I have failed in, but fair play to Jon for coming out and saying it was a clear and obvious error and he couldn’t believe the on-field ref didn’t give it and can’t believe Var didn’t intervene. It probably made me feel worse actually because you know you are right. I feel worse about leaving with nothing.”