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Premier League faces ANOTHER season of ‘armpit offsides’ but will make three VAR changes including refs using monitors
Aug 6, 2020
PREM fans face ANOTHER season of “armpit offsides”.
But refs’ chief Mike Riley and his team have been forced to come into line with Fifa over operating VAR.
The 20 Prem clubs, who earlier voted not to extend the post-shutdown rules allowing five substitutes and a nine-player bench, agreed at their summer meeting on a number of changes to VAR operations.
The decision was effectively forced on the Prem after Fifa took control of VAR from the hands of the Law-making International FA Board.
Fifa refs’ chief and former Italian whistler Pierluigi Collina, has mandated a uniform approach across the world.
And that will see THREE significant changes in the Prem next season - but NO change to the hairline offside calls that so infuriated fans and players alike.
Prem clubs had been due to consider plans to operate “thicker” VAR lines, allowing a 10cm “tolerance zone” for attackers.
But Collina firmly believes that “offside is offside” with no leeway.
The Italian explained earlier this year: “If evidence shows a player is 3cm offside, it is offside.”
This season saw a number of hairline calls that frustrated fans, players, managers and clubs - although West Ham did not follow through on their suggestion of calling for a vote to scrap VAR altogether.
But the incidents that ruled out goals by Norwich’s Teemu Pukki against Spurs and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino at Aston Villa are now almost certain to be repeated throughout next term.
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