Harry Kane fears he paid the penalty for being caught up in a VAR communication breakdown.
Kane revealed referee Mike Dean confessed he did not see Jamaal Lascelles’ late challenge which left Tottenham screaming for a penalty in their defeat to Newcastle .
Video referees are only supposed to step in on “clear and obvious” errors and it could have been left on the basis that Dean made a subjective decision when in fact he missed it.
It is a potential quirk in the system as Kane insisted it was a stonewall penalty and believes the officials got it wrong between them.
Tottenham striker Kane said: “Mike Dean said that he just didn’t know, he couldn’t see, so that’s where the VAR is there to help him out.
“If he had said ‘no penalty’ and the VAR said it was a 50-50, you can agree. I don’t know what the conversation was - whether he said he didn’t see it or not, but from my point of view, it’s hard to understand.
“It is hard to understand how it hasn’t been given. Just like when a keeper comes out, uses his arms and trips you up – it’s a penalty. I kind of tripped over his (Lascelles) arm and then his body.
"Whether it was deliberate or not, from my point of view it is hard to take.
“I said last week (after the Man City game) that sometimes you are going to get the rub of the green with VAR, sometimes not. I felt it didn’t go our way against Newcastle.”
