{"id":21874,"date":"2026-02-14T21:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21874"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:39:58","slug":"aston-villa-1-3-newcastle-alan-shearer-and-wayne-rooney-criticise-lucas-digne-no-handball-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21874","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle: Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney criticise Lucas Digne no handball decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport pundits Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer believe referees are &#8220;petrified&#8221; of making decisions without the &#8220;safety net of VAR,&#8221; after the officials decided not to award a penalty for a potential handball by Lucas Digne in the FA Cup fourth round tie between Aston Villa and Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c70ke0zglk5o\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8216;The officials looked petrified&#8217; &#8211; was Villa Park chaos advert for VAR?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Available to UK users only.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/ce3gn1v4rk4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Sport pundits Wayne Rooney&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}