Gabriel Martinelli was involved in a tussle with Mats Wieffer inside the area and escaped a penalty that could have seen Brighton equalise Brighton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 loss ...

VAR's powers have been extended by football's lawmakers. Using VAR to check corners will be an option for competitions from this summer, while the core VAR protocol has now been widened to cover ...

Rule changes and technological innovations have been a constant in soccer in recent years, aimed at speeding up the game and preventing referee errors that could impact match results. Ahead of the ...

Video assistant referee causes controversy every week in the Premier League, but how are decisions made, and are they correct? This season, we take a look at the major incidents to examine and explain ...

Premier League referees are losing faith in the new semi-automated offside technology that was introduced for this season - with a disallowed goal for Manchester City proving to be the tipping point.

What a weekend of poor refereeing. We shouldn’t be surprised; when VAR was still being proposed, I said that it would make referees worse because the cameras would obviously bail them out, or more ...

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe believes referees have become too reliant on VAR after Chris Kavanagh's performance in his side's 3-1 FA Cup win at 10-man Aston Villa. In the absence of VAR, Kavanagh and ...

The FA Cup fourth round kicks off tonight. This stage of the competition features 16 ties, including 14 Premier League teams and several lower-league hopefuls including sixth-tier Macclesfield, who ...

This week the VAR controversy is around the events at Anfield. Last week it was over Tottenham’s draw with Manchester City and whether Dom Solanke’s first goal should have stood. And in between, we ...