This weekend’s FA Cup fifth round will see the implementation of semi-automated offside technology (SOAT) for the first time ...

This will include in-stadium VAR announcements, where match officials will announce their final decision in relation to reviewed incidents to provide improved clarity and understanding for spectators ...

With decisions made significantly faster, the use of semi-automated offside calls have gone down well with fans, who have grown increasingly frustrated by lengthy VAR delays. It makes use of ...

Some grounds cause more trouble than others, too. Offside has proved particularly troublesome for the VAR at Selhurst Park, where it took over four minutes to confirm a Crystal Palace goal earlier ...

"We have got 100 per cent accuracy (on offside after VAR checks) this season, so it won't improve the accuracy. What it does is make the process more efficient." The technology has been developed ...

Semi-automated offside technology will make its debut in English football in seven of the eight FA Cup fifth-round ties, it was announced on Thursday. The technology will be used at all the ties ...

Referee Luca Pairetto and the linesman let the game play on, as often happens in the VAR era, knowing that if Colombo had gone on to score the offside would have been checked by the cameras.

Because, as always with VAR, the entire process leaves fans in the dark. No one inside the ground knew what was happening. The big screens flashed up with 'checking goal: possible offside' and ...