{"id":4166,"date":"2026-05-18T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:52:58","slug":"man-utd-vs-nottingham-forest-pgmo-admits-error-in-allowing-matheus-cunha-goal-after-bryan-mbeumo-handball-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=4166","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd vs Nottingham Forest: PGMO admits error in allowing Matheus Cunha goal after Bryan Mbeumo handball | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The PGMO has admitted Manchester United&#8217;s second goal against Nottingham Forest should not have been given.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Michael Salisbury decided to overrule VAR having been sent to the pitch-side monitor after the ball struck Bryan Mbeumo&#8217;s arm in the build-up to Matheus Cunha&#8217;s strike, which put United ahead in their 3-2 win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>PGMO chief refereeing officer Howard Webb spoke to Forest and Man Utd on Monday to acknowledge the misjudgement.<\/p>\n<p>The refereeing body regularly engages with clubs to maintain positive dialogue around refereeing matters.<\/p>\n<p>English football tends to operate a more lenient approach to the handball rule after feedback from clubs, players, managers and fans.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, however, the decision expected was to deem Mbeumo&#8217;s contact as handball, hence the acknowledgment by the PGMO.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PGMO has admitted Manchester United&#8217;s second goal against Nottingham Forest should not have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}