Full transcript of sweary VAR audio from Luis Diaz goal as officials panicked

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Liverpool's calls for a copy of the VAR audio from their controversial match against Tottenham to be released have been answered by the PGMOL.

The Reds were left fuming at the referees' body on Saturday evening after being denied a perfectly valid goal from Luis Diaz. The Colombian had his effort disallowed for offside after VARs Darren England and Dan Cook mistakenly thought the initial on-field decision was onside, before failing to reverse the decision despite realising their blunder.

PGMOL admitted to making a "significant human error" after the game, which led Liverpool to call for the release of the audio involving their decision. The governing body did exactly that on Tuesday night in the name of transparency.

Yet the astonishing audio shows VAR officials Darren England and Dan Cook being congratulated for a 'good process' by on-field referee Simon Hooper just after making the biggest blunder in the history of Premier League officiating.

It showcases the extent of panic as the VAR and assistant VAR realised their mistake. One of the officials could even be heard swearing before the insistence that they couldn't take any action after the game had been restarted with a Spurs free-kick.

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF VAR AUDIO:

Assistant referee 1: “All good. Both holding. Both holding”

Referee: “Yeah, leave it alone.”

Assistant referee 1: “Waiting. Delaying, delaying.”

VAR: “Possible offside, Diaz.”

Assistant referee 2: “Give it.”

Assistant referee1: “Coming back for the offside, mate.”

VAR: “Just checking the offside. Delay, delay.”

VAR: “Give the kick point, let’s go. Kick point please?”

Referee: “Yeah, no worries mate.”

Replay operator: “So, here we are.”

Referee: “Wait.”

Replay operator: “Just get a tight angle.”

VAR: “Yeah give me 2D line ready after this one from frame two after that.”

Replay operator: “So frame two there?”

VAR: “That’s fine. Perfect, yeah. 2D line on the left boot.”

Replay operator: “Let me just switch angles.”

VAR: “Romero, I think it is?”

Replay operator: “I think it might be this angle better? Happy with this angle?”

VAR: “Yep.”

Replay operator: “2D line on the boot?”

VAR: “2D line on the boot.”

Replay operator: “Yep, okay. So 2D line on the boot.”

VAR: “And stop. Check complete, check complete. That’s fine, perfect.”

Assistant referee 1: “Playing.”

Referee: “Cheers mate.”

VAR: “Thank you mate.”

Referee: “Well done boys, good process.”

Replay operator: “Wait, wait, wait, wait. The on-field decision was offside. Are you happy with this?”

Assistant VAR: “Yeah.”

Replay operator: “Are you happy with this?”

Assistant VAR: “Offside, goal, yeah. That’s wrong that, Daz.”

VAR: “What?”

Replay operator: “On-field decision was offside. Are you happy with this image? Yeah, it is onside. The image that we gave them is onside.”

Assistant VAR: “He’s playing him, he’s gone offside.

VAR: “Oh (expletive)”

Replay operator: “Delay, delay. Oli (PGMOL Hub Ops) saying to delay, Oli’s saying to delay.”

VAR: “Pardon?”

Replay operator: “Oli’s calling in to say delay the game. The decision is onside.”

VAR: “Can’t do anything.”

Replay operator: Oli’s saying to delay, Oli’s saying to delay.”

VAR: “Oli?”

Fourth official: “Yeah.”

Replay operator: “Delay the game, to delay the game? Stop the game.”

VAR: “They've started the game. Can’t do anything, can’t do anything.”

Assistant VAR: “Yeah they’ve restated. Yeah. No.”

VAR: “I can’t do anything. I can’t do anything. (Expletive).”

• Liverpool FC
• Premier League
• Tottenham Hotspur FC

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