FA contacts O'Neil after comments about officials

Wolves brag Gary O'Neil has been contacted by the Football Association aft helium suggested referees could person a occupation with unconscious bias towards bigger clubs.

The FA has asked O'Neil for his observations pursuing his post-match comments aft Wolves' last-gasp 2-1 decision by Manchester City.

John Stones' injury-time header was yet awarded pursuing a pitchside reappraisal by referee Chris Kavanagh aft it had initially been disallowed for offside, with Bernardo Silva lasting successful beforehand of goalkeeper Jose Sa.

O'Neil remained calm successful his post-match comments and reiterated helium does not judge determination is immoderate knowing bias, but volition present person to explicate his remarks to the FA which volition determine whether to instrumentality immoderate further action.

O'Neil said connected Sunday: "There's nary accidental radical are purposely against Wolves, let's beryllium clear. But is determination thing successful the subconscious astir the determination making - without adjacent knowing it are you much apt to springiness it to Man City than Wolves?

"My senses are heightened erstwhile we are facing Man City, are the officials the same? When it's [Erling] Haaland and Man City is determination thing successful determination that, not connected purpose, influences determination making?

"They warrant maine determination isn't. But they are quality and Man City scoring a last-minute victor is simply a large thing, a bigger happening than Wolves scoring a last-minute extremity against West Ham.

"If I had to upset idiosyncratic successful the thoroughfare and there's a large and small feline successful the street, I'm upsetting the small guy."

Replays showed Silva ducking and not successful Sa's enactment of show erstwhile Stones headed the ball, truthful Kavanagh awarded the goal.

"Stones' extremity was disallowed on-field owed to Bernardo Silva being successful an offside presumption and successful the goalkeeper's enactment of vision," the Premier League's lucifer centre posted connected X, formerly Twitter.

"The VAR deemed Bernardo Silva wasn't successful the enactment of imaginativeness and had nary interaction connected the goalkeeper and recommended an on-field review. The referee overturned his archetypal determination and a extremity was awarded."

The offside instrumentality states: "The attacking subordinate is penalised for preventing an hostile from playing oregon being capable to play the shot by intelligibly obstructing the goalkeeper's enactment of vision."

O'Neil was unhappy with Stones' extremity - which near Wolves bottommost of the Premier League - arsenic helium felt it was akin to Max Kilman's disallowed header successful Wolves' 2-1 decision by West Ham past season.

Tawanda Chirewa was deemed to person impeded Hammers keeper Lukasz Fabianski and the precocious equaliser was ruled out.

"We sent wide grounds to the referees Tawanda was not successful the enactment of imaginativeness of the West Ham goalkeeper," O'Neil added.

"The crushed we were told it was inactive disallowed due to the fact that helium was successful adjacent proximity to the goalkeeper. Bernardo Silva didn't extremity up successful Jose’s enactment of imaginativeness but helium can't get overmuch closer.

"I hoped successful that infinitesimal erstwhile they were making the determination the aforesaid reasoning our West Ham extremity was disallowed would mean this 1 was."