It isn’t costly for Brighton. He blew the whistle before he should have and immediately blew again to rectify the mistake. That’s an accident.
It was the right decision to blow the whistle again. He shouldn’t have blown to take the free kick but luckily quickly realized his mistake and blew again to stop. 100% the correct decision. It didn’t cost Brighton anything. They got a free kick, exactly as they deserved. They didn’t score a legitimate goal at all and it was completely undeserved. Thankfully he quickly realized his mistake and was able to stop an illegitimate goal from counting. Rebalancing order and not costing either side anything.
You’ve shown a complete lack of understanding of the laws in the past or how VAR works. Along with a complete lack of any logic in favour of complaining about everything. So I’ll leave you to your crying as it’s a waste of time engaging with you on it.
Tbf he didn't just blow the whistle, realise his mistake and blow a second time to stop it.
He blew his whistle, realised his mistake, blew a second time to stop it, then decided to allow the goal to stand after all for some reason, then disallowed it following the VAR review that pointed out he couldn't let it stand as he had blown the whistle a second time.
Presumably Brighton would argue that while the ref may have regretted allowing the free-kick to be taken, once he did so they were entitled to score it. And that the second whistle was the problem, as demonstrated by the fact that Mason was willing to allow the goal to stand were it not for that second whistle.
Basically I think he botched it badly enough that someone would feel aggrieved regardless of the outcome.
Incidentally, when we say he "shouldn't" have blown to allow the free to be taken initially, are there actual rules dictating when it should/shouldn't be taken? Or is it just down to the ref to manage free-kicks as he deems fit?
Edit: Unless he allowed the goal because the thought that while he had tried to blow the whistle to stop the free-kick, he hadn't managed to do so before the ball had crossed the line?