LONDON, England (CMC) —Reggae Boy and West Ham United forward, Michail Antonio, has outlined that the video assistant referee (VAR) system needs to be “binned”.

Antonio’s comments follows West Ham controversially being denied a 90th-minute equaliser at Chelsea last Saturday after VAR intervened.

Referees’ body (PGMOL) accepted that decision and a second VAR call in the Newcastle United versus Crystal Palace match was also incorrect.

“It was madness, that’s what I am going to call it. An actual madness,” said Antonio, who scored West Ham’s lone goal.

“I have said this many times. It needs to be binned,” he continued.

Meanwhile, Maxwell Cornet thought he had equalised at 2-2 for West Ham at Stamford Bridge, but, after being told to look at the monitor by VAR, referee Andrew Madley decided there was a foul on goalkeeper Edouard Mendy by Jarrod Bowen and reversed his decision to award a goal.

Subsequently, West Ham manager David Moyes called the decision “scandalous”.

“As a player we all knew it (the incident) was nothing. It is all about opinions, about the referee’s opinion, about the fourth official’s opinion and about the opinion of whoever is watching,” he said.

“If the referee makes a decision, then there is another person who goes, ‘that might not be the right decision’. He goes to the referee ‘you might have to have another look at that’.

“He is putting doubt in the referee’s mind when he is already sure about the decision he has made. You are spending all this money on VAR for things to still go wrong,” he added.

Football matches in England have been postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday at the age of 96.