ASTON VILLA were denied a first minute opener against Arsenal after another contentious VAR decision.
John McGinn sweetly struck past Gunners stopper Bernd Leno with just 45 seconds on the clock.
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It appeared a perfectly good goal to every single viewer that shelled out £14.95 to watch the match on Sky Sports Box Office.
But by the time the game got back underway almost FIVE minutes later, the goal had been controversially chalked off.
While Ross Barkley did not touch the ball, as it whizzed past him and into the net, the Chelsea-loanee was deemed to be in Leno’s eyeline – even though the strike rocketed past the German in a flash.
Referee Martin Atkinson trotted over to the pitchside monitor to have a look at the incident.
But the scene descended into farce, when the experienced official had to watch it back on a miniature screen, with the main one seemingly not even switched on.
When grabs of the incident appeared on social media, fans were not impressed in the slightest.
One wrote: “That is a joke”.
While another added: “How tf is this an offside”.
A third commented: “Var gotta chill fs”.
And a fourth exasperatedly wrote: “This is rubbish…..”
Villa weren’t to be denied their opener in the 25th minute, however, with a Bukayo Saka own goal finally giving Dean Smith’s side the lead they felt they should already have had.
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