Golden Arrows head coach Manqoba Mngqithi was furious after the final whistle against Kaizer Chiefs, insisting his team lost due to an offside goal and making calls for VAR.
Abafana Bes’thende lost 1-0 to Amakhosi thanks to a first-half goal by McCarthy, which moved Chiefs into third place on the log.
Arrows, meanwhile, stayed in 10th, with Mngqithi insisting the Chiefs defender scored from an offside position.
“The first thing I can tell is that the PSL will forever have issues for as long as this issue of VAR is not taken care of,” he told SuperSport TV.
“The stakes are very high. We work very hard to build our teams. If you want to see that this goal was offside, just wait for the touch that goes to Silva and already McCarthy is on the other side, he’s offside.
“And we lose the game, nobody cares. You concede goals, people are saying ‘no, you conceded because you didn’t defend well’. But the reality is the league must very hard on VAR, the game has become too dynamic.
“It’s not us, it’s the game that should tell us that it’s too difficult even for the officials to follow and track the runs of the players, because I cannot always blame the officials – the game itself has become too dynamic and it demands that we have to respond to that.
“We are not playing for R500 000 here, we are playing for R20 million. So we should consider looking into this thing of VAR otherwise we will keep losing matches like this and people will be ok with it.”
Mngqithi did not want to blame his players for the defeat, insisting Chiefs won “against the laws of the game”.
“We lost another game because of an offside goal,” he continued.
“That does not make me feel good. When we lose matches, people sing like this that they have won a match, but the reality is we won the match against the laws of the game.”
