The Premier League will take steps to avoid VAR errors as caused would defeat the legal purpose to Colombian Luis Díaz in Tottenham Hotspur-Liverpool, according to Howard Webb, the director of the PGMOL (Premier League referee college).
“We have put measures in place to ensure that the mistake we saw will not be repeated“said Webb on the television program “Match Officials: Mic’d Up”, where the errors of referees and VAR in the Premier League are analyzed monthly.
According to Webb, the work needs to be done improve communication between on-field referees and those in VARas well as adapt the protocolone of the reasons why the Tottenham-Liverpool error was not corrected.
In this fight, Luis Díaz’s goal was disallowed for offside and, despite the fact that the VAR showed that it was a legal goal, the communication was incorrect, the VAR referee made the mistake of thinking that the goal was proven and once the game was resumed, the protocol does not allow backtracking.
Webb assured that the IFAB was working to improve all these problems and that we will see a change in the protocol of this technology in the near future.
“I knew that the IFAB, even before this happened, was planning to do policy review related to VAR,” Webb added.
In addition, the Premier also plans to review, together with the English federation, the possibility of referees can work in other federationsas was the case with the VAR referees of the aforementioned match, refereeing in the United Arab Emirates in the same week.
Source: La Verdad
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