Southampton should NOT have been awarded a penalty against Everton at Goodison last night, according to Premier League officials.
Referee Lee Mason gave a first-half spot-kick to the visitors having adjudged Andre Gomes to have fouled James Ward-Prowse.
The Video Assistant Referee reviewed the incident and ruled that the decision to give the penalty was not a clear and obvious error and so allowed it to stand.
Ward-Prowse got up off the floor to take the spot-kick but smashed it against the top of the bar.
But Dermot Gallagher, the former top flight referee, checked the decision in the Premier League Match Centre and believes it was the wrong call to award the penalty.
Mason judged that Gomes bundled Ward-Prowse over in the 28th minute but replays confirm it was more of a 'coming together' than a foul.
