Lee Mason has not been selected as a video assistant referee for any Premier League match at the weekend, following a controversial disallowed goal for Newcastle against Crystal Palace on Saturday. Mason, who became a dedicated VAR at the start of last season after retiring as an on-field referee, was in the booth for the match. The on-field referee, Michael Salisbury, initially awarded an own goal by Tyrick Mitchell but was recommended to review the incident by Mason. Salisbury then gave a foul against Joe Willock who had collided with the Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita. Replays suggested the collision had been caused by Mitchell shoving Willock in the back, and that the goal should have stood. Andrew Madley, the referee who disallowed Maxwel Cornet’s equaliser for West Ham at Stamford Bridge, has been selected to referee the Liverpool v Wolves match on Saturday. The VAR in that game, Jarred Gillett, will be the referee at Leicester v Aston Villa on the same day. Gillett had advised Madley to look again at the goal, after spotting a possible foul by West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen on the Chelsea goalkeeper Édouard Mendy in the build-up. The West Ham manager, David Moyes, described the decision to disallow the goal as “scandalous”. The Premier League and PGMOL have been reviewing the weekend’s controversial VAR incidents in the top flight. The PGMOL board took the rare step of acknowledging the specific incidents involving West Ham and Newcastle in a statement on Sunday, and accepted the Premier League’s request for an additional investigation. In other news, the English Football League has said it is “incredibly frustrated” by the failure of goalline technology during Sunday’s Championship match between Huddersfield and Blackpool at the John Smith’s Stadium. The Terriers were denied an equaliser when Yuta Nakayama’s effort crossed the line but the technology failed to detect it and the on-field officials, managed by PGMOL, did not spot it either. Blackpool won the game 1-0. “The EFL is incredibly frustrated that a technology failure at Huddersfield Town and Blackpool has overshadowed a fantastic weekend of action on the pitch,” an official statement issued on Monday said. “We have now received an initial assessment from Hawk-Eye, the providers of the Goal Line Technology service in the Championship, that during a second-half incident with Huddersfield attacking, the match officials did not receive a signal to their watch or earpiece as, due to multiple factors, the ball was no longer being tracked following it entering the Blackpool goal area.” The statement continued: “Separately, PGMOL have confirmed officials were unsighted due to obstruction by players and therefore unable to award a goal. While the system was tested and functional prior to the start of the game, further information is expected from both Hawk-Eye and PGMOL following a full review of the incident. “Technology is there to support the decision-making processes of match officials in the Championship and it failing in such a manner on Sunday is a matter of great concern. For clarity, the referee’s decision is final and the match result stands.” Goalline technology has generally been regarded as a great success since its introduction, although there was also a system failure in the first Premier League match to be played after the Covid-19 enforced suspension in the 2019-20 season. The technology failed to spot that the Aston Villa goalkeeper, Orjan Nyland, had carried the ball over the line in the match against Sheffield United on 17 June 2020.