Sorry Andy, I wasn't aware you'd asked me this question. In fact I'm not sure what the question is.
The phrase however is completely inept, as was the original decision. It was a pen, and VAR should have asked the unsighted ref to have a look at the monitor. The way I would have phrased it - and I have addressed this before (which you might have missed) - is that both players legitimately went for a high-bouncing ball. One with a leg, obviously, the other with his chest. Mac Allister beat Doku to it fractionally and that was enough to warrant a penalty because the City player's leg impeded the Liverpool player's momentum. I don't think there was anything vicious about Doku's challenge. I think he was trying to bring the ball under control rather than blast it clear and his foot movement was actually laterally across Macca's chest rather than a full-blooded thrust towards Macca - say in the manner of de Jong's famous assault on Alonso in the World Cup Final. But Doku was surely taken by surprise by how quickly Mac Allister was on to the ball. I was too. He doesn't look to be the favourite as the ball is bouncing upwards! (again, I've posted my thoughts on this already, but you seem to have missed them). Doku took a risk and he failed. Man City should have paid the price. They didn't. Was this corruption? No, I don't think so. It was incompetence, followed by the all-too-usual apologetics from the refereeing establishment.
Right. So you are saying that the high boot which wasn't recognised was an error, followed by the 'he got the ball first' was also and error and not awarding the obvious penalty for dangerous play was an error. We are saying that the VAR basically telling the AVAR to fuck off (paraphrased) was also an error? And we're saying that the referees first statement 'Not for me' was also an error. That's a lot of mistakes in one go.
'Mistakes' is what we're calling them.
But.
We can't, can we? An independant panel agreed that there was no error.
On top of that, the head of PGMOL went on TV and said that the decision was the correct one.
If it had been a 'mistake' then it would have been poor. If they'd apologised again for a 'mistake' then that would have been poor. I wonder why Webb chose to say the correct decision was made - perhaps because if he'd admitted a 'mistake' then people would be forced to look at where the officials had been reffing. Would a connection have been made to look at any outside interest and any Premier League clubs that might hold sway.
That would be a can of worms, wouldn't it.
So what we have is a host of errors, an independant panel finding that there were no errors and the head of the PGMOL gaslighting everyone, telling everyone that what they saw clearly and in subsequent videos and photographs was, in fact, NOT what everyone had seen after all.
Now. This is just one decision. We also have the Arsenal handball - VAR lying again. We also have the assault on Gravenberch - VAR lying again. We also have the mistakes in the Spurs match - quite a few in there, weren't there and the team of officials that made those decisions was interesting to see. We also have random other mistakes - including, incredibly a match official actually assaulting a Liverpool player - for which we got more gaslighting from PGMOL.
So. We're all stupid. None of the things that we saw the first time, nor on replays, nor on any photograph isn't what anyone saw at all.
Aren't we all so silly. We should just mind our pretty little heads and stop trying to work out what PGMOL are playing at, and instead do some embroidery or knitting or croquet.
