Referee Simon Hooper, video assistant ref Michael Sailsbury and assistant VAR Richard West have all been dropped for this weekend’s engagement following their wrong decision by not awarding Wolves a penalty in the season opener against Manchester United.
Manchester United defeated Wolves by 1-0 courtesy of Raphael Varane’s second-half header.
However, they should have conceded a late penalty after Andre Onana clattered into Sasa Kalajdzic and Craig Dawson in the final minute of injury time.
Replays showed that Onana missed the ball entirely, before making contact with the two Wolves players.
Hooper decided on the pitch that it was not a penalty and the VAR check also agreed with him.
Speaking in the immediate aftermath of the defeat, O’Neil revealed that Jon Moss, manager of the Premier League’s elite group of officials, had admitted that the visitors should have been awarded a spot kick.
