What is your opinion on VAR? Do you think it will be good or bad for the game?
VAR can only be used for four specific types of decision: goals, penalty decisions, direct red cards and cases of mistaken identity...
- The referee must always make a decision and that decision will stand unless it is “clearly wrong”;
- The referee can only go back to the start of the attacking phase which leads to the incident;
- A goal scored from a throw-in which should have gone to the other team could not be disallowed under the new system; and
- If the ball is still in play, the referee must wait until it is in a neutral zone before stopping play. If the decision is not overturned, play restarts with a drop ball.