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VAR can thank Matheus Cunha's red mist for taking spotlight away from offside debacle after taking EIGHT minutes to rule out Bournemouth goal

You can only imagine how quickly bosses inside Stockley Park sent the work experience lacky down to the nearest Clinton's to buy Matheus Cunha a thank you card.

Until the red mist descended on the Wolves forward in the final seconds of extra-time at the Vitality Stadium, when he punched, kicked and then headbutted Bournemouth defender Milos Kerkez, the fiercest spotlight from this remarkable FA Cup tie burned down on the officials and what is believed to be the longest VAR check in English football history.

Only then, after Cunha was given his marching orders and Luis Sinisterra scored the decisive penalty in a shootout that sent Bournemouth into the quarter-final were the match report intros changed and the headlines rewritten.