“Open Var” was the latest innovation in terms of referees introduced in Italy. Dazn plays, with a week’s delay, the conversations between the match director and the VAR room on the most controversial episodes of the weekend, to then have referee referee Gianluca Rocchi comment on them. The deferral serves to avoid hindering the work of the Sports Judge. In England, however, they want to go further. The Premier League has in fact requested to be able to listen live, even to the fans in the stadium, the conversations between referees and VAR. However, the “no” from the International Football Association Board (Ifab), the body that oversees the rules, was clear. of football.
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The firm refusal was motivated by the secretary, but also managing director, Lukas Brud as follows: «The fans should not be informed live.
There are many people talking at the same time and it would be counterproductive for anyone to listen to all those voices talking to each other. There is chaos.” «We have given the green light to test the subsequent publication of the decisions», concluded Brud, «but we are not ready to open live communication to the public as happens, for example, with rugby because they are two different sports».
So it is ok to broadcast the audio afterwards, but for the moment it will remain impossible to hear the dialogues between VAR and the referee live, while they discuss a decision to be made. The fuse of the controversy was triggered by Tottenham-Liverpool a month ago and by a goal canceled by the Reds striker Luis Diaz due to a misunderstanding between the referee, Simon Hooper, and the VAR room. judged to be offside, later revealed to be non-existent when reviewing the images. The VAR had communicated to the referee “check completed”, forgetting however that the decision taken on the pitch was for annulment. Once the game resumed, there was no going back. It was 0-0, but Liverpool would lose 2-1. The club’s request to replay the match was ignored.
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