MIKE RILEY IN PRE-TRIAL BRIEFING TO BRIGHTON AND PALACE PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS
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| Mike Riley - briefings to Brighton and Palace |
REFEREES’ boss Mike Riley has updated players and management at both Brighton and Crystal Palace about how the Video Assistant Referee
system will operate in advance of the clubs' 3rd Round FA Cup match on January 8.
Although the system has been used in other countries, Monday’s trial
will represent a first in an English football competition.
It has been tweaked and re-tweaked at least times by the technical director of the International Football Association Board, David Elleray, a former top-flight referee whose bookish credentials were established first as a Geography student at Oxford University, then in a long career as a master at uppercrust public school Harrow (where, in earlier times, Sir Winston Churchill had been a pupil).
It has been tweaked and re-tweaked at least times by the technical director of the International Football Association Board, David Elleray, a former top-flight referee whose bookish credentials were established first as a Geography student at Oxford University, then in a long career as a master at uppercrust public school Harrow (where, in earlier times, Sir Winston Churchill had been a pupil).
The two VARs for the Brighton-Palace match will be Premier League referee Neil Swarbrick (below) and assistant
referee Peter Kirkup who has many years’ experience running the line in top-flight football..
The intention is for their intervention to be minimal (or even non-existent) - only deployed in the following situations:
* Goals and whether there was a violation during the build up
* Penalty decisions
* Red card decisions (note that second yellow cards are not reviewable)
* Mistaken identity in awarding a red or yellow card
* Goals and whether there was a violation during the build up
* Penalty decisions
* Red card decisions (note that second yellow cards are not reviewable)
* Mistaken identity in awarding a red or yellow card
According to FIFA regulations, the process begins with the video assistant referee and the
assistant video assistant referee reviewing the play in question
on a bank of monitors in the video operation room with the
assistance of a replay operator.
This can be triggered by the referee requesting the review or by the VAR conducting a "check" to see if he or she should recommend a review to the referee.
If the VAR finds nothing during the check, then communication with the referee is unnecessary, which is called a "silent check".
If the VAR believes there has been a potential clear error, he or she will contact the referee with that judgment.
The referee can then either (a) change the call on the advice of the VAR or (b) conduct an on-field review by going to a designated spot on the sideline, called the referee review area , to review the video or (c) decide that he/she is confident in the original call and not conduct a review.
The referee is allowed to stop play to reverse a call or conduct a review but is not supposed to do so when either team is engaged in good attacking situation.
The official signal for a video review is by the referee making the outline of a rectangle with his index fingers (indicating a video screen).
However, for most, if not all, of the Brighton-Palace match, it will be business as usual for in-the-middle referee Andre Marriner (below) and his assistants, Scott Ledger and Richard West.
This can be triggered by the referee requesting the review or by the VAR conducting a "check" to see if he or she should recommend a review to the referee.
If the VAR finds nothing during the check, then communication with the referee is unnecessary, which is called a "silent check".
If the VAR believes there has been a potential clear error, he or she will contact the referee with that judgment.
The referee can then either (a) change the call on the advice of the VAR or (b) conduct an on-field review by going to a designated spot on the sideline, called the referee review area , to review the video or (c) decide that he/she is confident in the original call and not conduct a review.
The referee is allowed to stop play to reverse a call or conduct a review but is not supposed to do so when either team is engaged in good attacking situation.
The official signal for a video review is by the referee making the outline of a rectangle with his index fingers (indicating a video screen).
However, for most, if not all, of the Brighton-Palace match, it will be business as usual for in-the-middle referee Andre Marriner (below) and his assistants, Scott Ledger and Richard West.
Riley has insisted that, in the event of the VAR becoming involved, players and
management must not seek to harangue Mr Marriner about what decision he should
reach.
If they do so, they will face the prospect of sanctions.
The regulation states:" Players who demand a video review by making the rectangle motion are to be cautioned with a yellow card.
"Players who enter the area where the referee conducts a review are also to be cautioned with a yellow card, and team officials who do so are to be dismissed."
Palace manager Roy Hodgson has expressed cautious optimism about VAR and its capacity to eliminate "clear miscarriages of justice".
However, he believes it will probably need some "honing" before it can demonstrate its long-term worth.
He commented: "I am not yet convinced that it will make things any better for referee - it might even make them more difficult."
Today's Referee comments: As with many, the Palace manager makes the mistake of hoping for "justice" to prevail in matches. Football is not a court of law - it is a game and, as such, subject to all sorts of twists of fortune (just and unjust), not just the whims of refereeing decisions. But the professional game seems intent of making things ever more complicated. There is a real risk that VAR will generate more controversies than those it resolved. Whatever happened to the principle that players (and managers) should accept as final the referee's decision - whether they agreed with it or not? Alas, the spirit of sporstmanship seems to belong to a bygone age. And football is surely the worse for it.
The regulation states:" Players who demand a video review by making the rectangle motion are to be cautioned with a yellow card.
"Players who enter the area where the referee conducts a review are also to be cautioned with a yellow card, and team officials who do so are to be dismissed."
Palace manager Roy Hodgson has expressed cautious optimism about VAR and its capacity to eliminate "clear miscarriages of justice".
However, he believes it will probably need some "honing" before it can demonstrate its long-term worth.
He commented: "I am not yet convinced that it will make things any better for referee - it might even make them more difficult."
Today's Referee comments: As with many, the Palace manager makes the mistake of hoping for "justice" to prevail in matches. Football is not a court of law - it is a game and, as such, subject to all sorts of twists of fortune (just and unjust), not just the whims of refereeing decisions. But the professional game seems intent of making things ever more complicated. There is a real risk that VAR will generate more controversies than those it resolved. Whatever happened to the principle that players (and managers) should accept as final the referee's decision - whether they agreed with it or not? Alas, the spirit of sporstmanship seems to belong to a bygone age. And football is surely the worse for it.
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