EXCLUSIVE: Due to a Premier League rule, Tottenham vs. Liverpool may be rescheduled after a VAR error.

Although the Premier League’s own regulations suggest that such a decision is feasible, the incensed Reds have not sought that the game be replayed after officials’ error resulted to Luis Diaz’s goal being disallowed.

If a panel formed by the Premier League decides that the match officials violated the Laws of the Game when they disallowed Luis Diaz’s goal, the Premier League may elect to replay Tottenham Hotspur’s match against Liverpool.

Following Saturday night’s embarrassing gaffe, the referees’ organization PGMOL is working to be as transparent as they can.

However, they won’t release the audio of the incident until Liverpool has had a chance to examine what exchanges occurred between the referee Simon Hooper, the VAR Darren England, and his assistant Dan Cook.

PGMOL has suspended both England and Cook, but Hooper served as the fourth official for Monday night’s match between Fulham and Chelsea, suggesting that he has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

Although the Reds did not request that the game be redone, they did say in a carefully worded statement that they would “explore the range of options available, given the clear need for escalation and resolution.”

Experts say it signals they have already obtained legal counsel, and should they decide to fight for a repeat of the game after listening to the tape, there is a mechanism for that to occur.

“Rule L18 outlines that the Premier League board has the power to order a league match to be replayed provided that a recommendation to that effect has been made by a commission under rule W51,” Stephen Taylor Heath, co-head of Sports Law at JMW Solicitors, told Mirror Football.

Additionally, rule W1 gives the Premier League board the authority to investigate any alleged rule violation, including one committed by a match official, and rule N4 assures that every match official agrees to be bound by all applicable protocols and FA rules.

There is therefore a possibility that Liverpool could lobby the Premier League board to convene a commission which would have the power, among others, to order the match to be replayed.

“To mount a general legal case outside of the Premier League regulations, a starting point would normally have to be to establish a contractual nexus between the club and the officials that has been breached or a duty of care and negligence causing loss.”

Yet it would be legally difficult for Liverpool to argue that they lost points in the circumstances – and it would not be until the end of the campaign that the possible impact of the officials’ mistake can be fully assessed.

Taylor Heath added: “While it has been established sports participants owe a duty of care to each other – such as personal injury – it would be very difficult for Liverpool to establish that the error itself cost them points in a legal sense given the infinite scenarios that could have arisen had the goal stood – for example, it is not the same as a horse race where the error is as to the winner at the end of a race.

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