The Premier League believes its referees are setting models for VAR, as the latest statistics show that video review errors fell by 35% last season, so other leagues want to follow models.
After 23 rounds of 2023-24, the Key Match Events (KMI) group recorded 20 errors, and at the same stage of the event, registered.
The KMI team noted that VAR changed its live decision four times this season, one more than the last game. However, there were only nine missed interventions, compared to 17 a year ago. The list of errors for this season can be found at the feet of the article.
Premier League chief football officer Tony Scholes insists that despite several controversial and high-profile events, great progress has been made.
“The feedback I’ve got is that the vast majority of clubs recognize significant progress in this area,” Scholes said. “Other leagues around the world look up to the game officials in this country, and in fact, the country’s VAR process and VAR officials are examples they want to follow. Sometimes in England there is no such feeling in England but that’s what I get from people all over the world.”
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The KMI team has five members; three former players plus a body of a representative and referee from the Premier League The PGMOL.
“The past assessment of officials was conducted by PGMOL itself, and the allegations were that they were marking their own assignments,” Scholes explained. “Everyone else in the club and everyone else in the game made a reputational level of accuracy results.” Questioning. Therefore, we believe that it is important to introduce some kind of independence and objective measurement accuracy.
“[The Panel members] Carry out rigorous training exercises in game laws, and the interpretation of these laws by game officials. I won’t suggest that this is perfect, absolutely not. However, we are able to provide an objective measure of performance benefits, and we can benchmark the performance of officials through seasons.
“No one underestimates the importance and impact of a single mistake. We know that a single mistake can cost the club’s points, can cost them, can pay for manager positions, can be the position of the player. They are important, they are It’s very important to be such a high bet in one. So our absolute goal is to minimize that number as much as possible, but I think we should recognize a few more points.
“This is 70 VAR interventions in 239 games, less than a third of the games. This suggests that the interference of VAR may not be the level that many of us perceive. It is their point of view, so people have the right to be different. , 66 of which interventions were correct.
“We keep pushing these officials, we are pushing them to be as good as possible, which is completely right, but we also admit that the progress made is right. In the league, we do this because we are not getting the best. We keep pushing forward. The performance of critics continues to beat the progress we should recognize is correct and I see the progress of the results.
“[Referees’ chief] Howard Webb and his team train teams and VAR day after day. They focus on a small amount of VAR to ensure efficiency and accuracy as good as possible. A group of expert VARs come from existing referees, but also referees operating from below the pyramid. There are more than a dozen pools that have operated 85% of all Premier Leagues this year, which is part of the reason for the improvement in accuracy and efficiency. ”
Scholes acknowledged a lot of work needed to improve supporters’ experience, although the average delay in var reviews dropped by 31 to 40 seconds this season.
“It’s an inevitable cost, and that’s the game delay caused by the var intervention,” Scholes added. “So, our goal is to minimize these delays.
“Our goal is to make sure that supporters in the stadium have at least the same amount of information, at least the same experience as those in their homes, to make sure they don’t sit there ignorance.
“So we introduced the new protocol to show more replays on a huge screen. We’re still not there. We wanted to get to a place where we have full visibility and full audio between the referee and the VAR.
“No one in the league thinks this is good enough and we still have a long way to go to improve it. We are bound by FIFA, but we should improve it within the scope of what we have the ability and right to do so. . Our view on this is that the more people can see, the more people understand it.”
Stuart Attwell gave the first referee to the stadium crowd the VAR comment result last month in the Calabar Cup between Totterham Hotspur and Liverpool. Scholes confirmed the plan is to push it into the Premier League at the start of next season.
Scholes confirmed: “The plan is to see the intention of this in the next round of the Calaba Cup, hoping to bring it into the Premier League next season.”
Scholes also revealed that testing of Semi-Automatic VAR Offside Technology (SAOT) has made “significant progress” in recent weeks, adding that it remains planned to be introduced this season.
“We’re still testing it, but we’re making big progress,” Scholes revealed. “Now, I hope we can introduce semi-automated technology sometime this season, but I’ve repeated the points a lot. If If you have any questions, we will not introduce it to the root of its operations.”
All 13 VAR errors in the Premier League this season
Incorrect interventions (4)
1. AFC Bournemouth 1-1 Newcastle United, August 25
Damino Ouattara Counterfeit Handball Target (’90 +2)
2. West Ham United 2-1 Manchester United, October 27
Fines for foul Matthijs de ligt exist Danny Singer (’90 +2)
3. Everton 0-0 Brentford, November 23
Christian Nørgaard Send a serious foul match (’39)
4. Nottingham Forest 3-2 Southampton, January 19
No Chris Wood Offside attack of goal (’64)
Missed interventions (9)
1. Manchester United 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur, September 29
Serious foul game, red card Bruno Fernandes (’41)
2. Aston Villa 2-2 Crystal Palace, November 23
Dogso, don’t give red cards Ian Maatsen (’65)
3. Everton 4-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers, December 4
Abdoulaye Doucouré Offside attack of goal (’72)
4. Nottingham Forest 2-1 Aston Villa, December 14
The fine was not awarded. foul Elliot Anderson (’34)*
5. West Ham 1-1 Brighton and Hove Albion, December 21
Serious foul game, no red card Pervis Estupiñán (’84)
6. Brighton 0-0 Brentford, December 27
Violent acts, red card not given João Pedro (’75)
7. West Ham 0-5 Liverpool, December 29
The fine was not awarded. foul Alexis Mac Allister (’35)
8. Ipswich Town 0-2 Brighton, January 19
The fine was not awarded. foul Wes Burning (’11)
9.Wolf 0-1 Arsenal, January 25
Serious foul game, red card Myers Lewis Skeley (’43)
*The panel said there may not be a penalty due to previous fouls, but it should be decided to review it.
