Dave Edwards: If referees couldn't agree whether it was a penalty against Wolves - how could we?

I was at the game, I was commentating and I possibly called it wrong at the time. But I still do not quite know the exact rule.

I had the privilege of having the VAR comms in my ear, so I could hear what they were saying and as the penalty was given straight away I thought it was extremely harsh.

As there was a deflection I assumed VAR would look at it, but from what I hear then is because his arm is in an unnatural position the decision is going to stand.

I tried to relay that in my comms, that the rules say it is a penalty.

The response I got from fans took me back to the days of being a player, I got a lot of abuse and it prompted me to look back over it.

The mitigating circumstances were because of the deflection and the proximity of it, and that should have been enough for it to be overturned.

To sum it up, I listened to three ex-referees’ opinions since the game to try to understand it a little bit better.

Mike Dean says it is never a penalty, Chris Foy says it is a penalty and Dermot Gallagher says once it has been given there is no way VAR can overturn it.

There is so much uncertainty from a refereeing point of view. As an ex-player, it should never be a penalty, never in a million years so it is very unlucky.

Gary O’Neil will be fuming with it, at the time of writing we have had no word from Howard Webb and VAR – it would be interesting to hear comms back from that game now they do that.

I called it slightly wrong at the time as I was not aware of the mitigating circumstances from the deflection.

Apart from that, it was not a good enough performance over 90 minutes for Wolves. Things went against them in the game but they did not start it well enough.

They were very very fortunate they were not punished in that opening 20 or 25 minutes where Luton were rampant, creating chances and being first to every second ball.

Wolves could not get any control of the game but there were some big positives. O’Neil noticed what was happening and without making substitutes he changed it. It looked as if he brought Nelson Semedo into a back three. He dropped Hwang Hee-Chan into right wing-back and they got some control back.

Jean-Ricner Bellegarde had a real moment of madness. It was naive from Bellegarde and, despite it only being a little kick out, with the amount of cameras there you just cannot do that.

It is a tough hand then. I always felt that Wolves when they are down to 10 men like when they were at Southampton last year look dangerous on the counter. He set them up really well in that second half, and he tried to stop the wide areas of Luton from being as big of a threat.

The problem Wolves will have is there will be so many suitors for Pedro Neto, with his age his potential his pace every club in the Premier League will be interested in him.

Saturday was just another example of his ability and it was such a terrific goal. Luton were scared to death of him.

Each time he got the ball they did not know what to do.