Referee Chris Kavanagh and his assistant Nick Greenhalgh have not been selected for a Premier League game this weekend.<\/p>\n
The pair were heavily criticised for their decisions in the fourth round FA Cup tie between Aston Villa and Newcastle United<\/a> on Saturday, in which there was no video assistant referee.<\/p>\n VAR will not be brought in until the fifth round.<\/p>\n Referees’ body Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO) bases its selections on factors including post-match performance assessments conducted by an independent Key Match Incidents panel, ensuring accountability for officials.<\/p>\n Among the errors, Kavanagh and Greenhalgh missed a clear offside against Tammy Abraham for Villa’s opening goal.<\/p>\n A potential red card for Lucas Digne for a challenge on Jacob Murphy was also missed, along with a possible offside against Dan Burn on Newcastle<\/a>‘s equaliser. <\/p>\n But it was the Digne non-penalty decision that really left most speechless.<\/p>\n The Villa full-back was two yards inside the penalty area when he was penalised for a handball, but Kavanagh and Greenhalgh decided the offence was a yard outside the area and awarded a free-kick – from which Newcastle<\/a>‘s Sandro Tonali scored the 63rd-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n Speaking on Match of the Day, Wayne Rooney said it was “one of the worst decisions I have ever seen”.<\/p>\n However, despite the criticism Kavanagh is highly regarded and in December was promoted to Uefa’s elite list<\/a> of referees to join Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor. <\/p>\n The other assistant at Villa Park, Gary Beswick, has been appointed to Nottingham Forest<\/a> versus Liverpool<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Chris Kavanagh and his assistant Nick Greenhalgh have not been selected for a Premier League game this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-484506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}