It was hard to argue with West Ham manager David Moyes when he commented on Sunday: "We have just seen another ridiculous weekend of decisions."
Moyes, who is usually fair-minded in such matters, had every right to be upset.
He had witnessed his Paraguayan centre-back Fabian Balbuena being given an absurd straight red card, courtesy of VAR for… well, simply kicking the ball.
Thankfully, the FA had enough sense to rescind the card on Tuesday, backing Moyes' view that it was a "really, rank rotten decision."
The worrying aspect is that the VAR official actually saw something wrong with it in the first place.
It's been replayed on television over and over again and what you see in real time is Balbuena chase a loose ball and whack it downfield as Chelsea's Ben Chilwell moves in to try and block it.
The Chelsea defender is too late, the ball has already gone but unfortunately Chilwell suffers Balbuena's follow through.
Nobody took much notice, including referee Chris Kavanagh and play carried on until VAR official Peter Bankes advised the referee to check the pitch-side video terminal.
What he sees is only the slow motion as Balbuena's follow through catches Chilwell.
The slow motion shot is totally misleading and prompts Kavanagh to show a red card.
Referees should use extreme caution when basing decisions on slow motion.
Respected former referee Dermot Gallagher commented: "It never went through my mind it was a red card".
While Balbuena was collecting his nonsense red, there were several incidents last weekend when defenders deliberately took out a player who was about to make a break, without any intention of playing the ball.
But they only get yellow cards and sometimes no card at all for what is laughingly called a "professional foul".
These cynical fouls can also be dangerous. A player who has suffered particularly in this respect is Newcastle's gifted French midfielder Allan Saint-Maximim who is constantly being hacked down by opponents after he has sped past them.
This happened on several occasions in last week's game against Liverpool.
He was already limping early on after some hefty tackles.
In the worst incident, Fabinho made absolutely no attempt to get the ball but cynically flattened him with a body check. It was not far short of GBH. At least, referee Andre Marriner gave him a yellow, but it deserved a red.
Some say Saint-Maximim is injury prone, but it's no wonder when he has to put with this sort of treatment.
He is one of the outstanding entertainers in the Premier League but I fear he will be targetted next season unless there is a rule change on such cynical fouls.
Another incident that made you weep for football last weekend was Callum Wilson's goal against Liverpool being disallowed because of the ludicrous hand ball rule, prompting match commentator Jim Beglin to sigh: "The law is pathetic."
Then in the Villa v West Brom game two penalties were awarded, one for each side, for players going down at the slightest of touches, although one was ruled out for an obscure off-side.
Football is supposed to be a contact sport but you would not know it these days.
Back in the 1990s, a Fifa official actually proposed banning tackling from football altogether. You get the feeling that some of today's authorities are of a similar mindset.
The improvement in pitches may have something to do with it.
In the old days on muddy pitches lunging slide tackles were all part of the game.
One of the great sights was seeing a defender sliding in on his backside before upending a winger in an explosion of spray and mud.
Steve Coppell, a fine winger in his playing days for Manchester United, always accepted he would be on the wrong end of crunching tackles.
In 1991, he commented: "It's a man's game and men make tackles and I hope men accept tackles without bleating too much".
Of course, no one wants to see a great player hacked down, or worse, injured for life.
At the end of the season, there needs to be a strong rethink on many football rules and how VAR is applied.
At the moment things are far too inconsistent… nobody knows what the rules are anymore.