🎥 There was some big VAR controversy in Everton's defeat at Millwall | OneFootball

As Joni Mitchell once sang: “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone?”

Everton were dumped out of the FA Cup by Championship Millwall on Saturday evening and for once, it was the absence rather than the presence of VAR which provided the game’s controversial turning point.

The Toffees thought they were heading towards the fifth round when Cenk Tosun put them 2-1 up in the second half but almost immediately, Millwall went down the other end and equalised through Jake Cooper.

But replays showed that the ball quite clearly came off Cooper’s arm on its way in.

Problem was, neither referee Michael Oliver nor his assistants spotted it and with no VAR to help them, the goal was allowed to stand.

And when a replay was shown on the big screen at The New Den, Everton boss Marco Silva furiously gesticulated to the fourth official to look at the evidence right in front of his eyes and disallow the goal.

Millwall boss Neil Harris, meanwhile, was shouting at somebody up in the stands to turn the replay off before the referee saw it!

What a farce.

And to further compound Silva’s and Everton’s misery, Murray Wallace netted a 94th minute winner to send them packing.

It never rains but it pours.