VAR had nothing to do with the incident, and should not even be referred to, not even in a general sense.
Factual calls such as offside calls are usually not seen by the ref on the monitor. The VAR tells him everything he needs to know.
If I can't convince you, then I'll remind you how long was left. At least 60 minutes to go, with 10 men away from home. With the hysteria over the Spurs error, you'd be forgiven for thinking we were robbed of a win there in injury time.
While you remember that and the limited number of similiar incidents, I don't forget the open goals missed at Brighton and Luton, and at home to City and Arsenal, all of which cost two points each. That's 8 points lost. Nothing to do with officials. (Add in the McAllister header last week, and it's 10 dropped) This is now the point of the season, when all those missed opportunities hurt most.
Never mind, much simpler for you to throw corruption allegations about, which can never be proven.
Listen carefully: I mentioned VAR in my post completely independent of the Gakpo incident ( in answer to the original posters point)...I made that clear, read it again ..I said that VAR had nothing to do with it and that it was 100% a referee error.
This thread is about VAR...So you can't just introduce broader football incidents to qualify your argument...that's just silly.
As for why we lost against Spurs...it was due to the unfortunate own goal in injury time....Even though we were robbed of a perfectly good goal.