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Just to reiterate the procedure, what they must do, and what their obligations are, and to make it regrettable that people participate in a decision-making process.
They’re there to do that, participate in the process properly, drill down to everyone, and to show that this has to happen as a process to completion,” they said.
It’s not a good idea to think that we need to resume the game quickly. I might not have needed to stay here till 12.15 today [for an extended Ref Watch] if it had only taken an extra 30 seconds, which it might have.”I can alter my mind if I stop the game and call a penalty, then my assistant says it’s incorrect because there wasn’t a foul.
Until I restart play, I can do that. At that time, your choice is made, and you move forward. The fundamental problem was that the VAR believed it to be a goal.
I’ve been told that he never told the referee that he had made a mistake after that,
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Offside is a decision made on the pitch. Offside would have still been the case without VAR.
“VAR is available to review each goal. For whatever reason, he believed it to be a goal and believed one had been awarded on the field.
He then declared that the inspection was over after making sure it was onside.
However, he is joined by a second coworker, an AVAR assistant who is an authority on offside determination. People had a hard time understanding why he didn’t intervene when they saw the assistant flagged.
“This progresses from Darren England’s oversight to the presence of a coworker next to him who ought to have raised the issue as well.
“I was shocked on Saturday in a circumstance like this. It’s the hardest matchday workday I’ve ever experienced.
“You’re attempting to describe what has happened to others while second-guessing what transpired because they are not present with me. I have a hard time thinking about that. What I can’t continues.