{"id":456,"date":"2026-05-12T05:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:46:46","slug":"premier-league-issue-statement-on-huge-leeds-vs-tottenham-var-call-the-leeds-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/premier-league-issue-statement-on-huge-leeds-vs-tottenham-var-call-the-leeds-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League issue statement on huge Leeds vs Tottenham VAR call – The Leeds Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The officials and VAR once again became the main talking point during Tottenham vs Leeds United in north London, with the visitors appearing to be denied a penalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Calvert-Lewin should have had a penalty<\/a> when Tottenham defender Destiny Udogie pulled him down, and VAR ignored precedent to rule the Leeds striker offside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, VAR finally intervened again later in the game when the on-field referee missed a high boot on Leeds captain Ethan Ampadu, which was corrected, and Leeds were awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calvert-Lewin stepped up to fire in the equaliser, and the Whites finally got the rub of the green in terms of a VAR intervention in favour of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premier League confirm VAR decision in Tottenham vs Leeds clash<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jarred Gillett made a clear mistake when he failed to award a penalty for Mathys Tel\u2019s high boot on Leeds captain Ethan Ampadu in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VAR forced the on-field referee to come to the monitor, and he had to change the decision as it was clear that Leeds deserved a penalty for the foul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Premier League issued a statement explaining the decision and indicated that the right call was eventually made after the intervention of technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Premier League statement on X read<\/a>: \u201cAfter VAR review, the referee overturned the original decision of no penalty to Leeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReferee announcement: \u2018After review, Tottenham number 11 commits a foul on the Leeds attacker. The final decision is penalty kick\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whites should have been awarded another penalty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tottenham defender Destiny Udogie clearly pulled Calvert-Lewin down and was only saved by an offside call by the tiniest of margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, VAR ignored a \u2018tolerance rule\u2019, which they applied earlier in the season when a Florian Wirtz goal against Fulham was allowed to stay despite him being ruled offside by a small margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Premier League\u2019s KMI panel agreed with the VAR call on that day. But the same rule was not applied in favour of Calvert-Lewin earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Gillett missed a clear offence on Ampadu and VAR had to intervene to ensure that Leeds were justly awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officials and VAR once again became the main talking point during Tottenham vs Leeds United in north…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":{"0":"post-456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-leeds"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}