PGMOL chief Howard Webb says the referee made a "clear and obvious error" before sending off Arsenal's William Saliba in their defeat to Bournemouth.

Howard Webb has said the referee who was in charge for Arsenal ’s loss at Bournemouth, when William Saliba was sent off, made a “clear and obvious error”.

Arsenal had considered putting an appeal together but Webb insists that would have been a waste of time given the weight of evidence supporting VAR’s decision and blamed Leandro Trossard’s wayward pass, one which put Saliba in trouble, for Jones’ initial error.

"The goalkeeper's moving backwards and the likelihood is the attacker will gain possession of the ball," Gillett, the VAR, can be heard saying on the audio. Jones then hardly took a moment's pause before agreeing with the judgement after being urged to go over to the monitor: