rarely far from the headlines<\/a> and has been the subject of further controversy in recent weeks after a series of high-profile incidents in the Premier League. Rosetti made clear that he was not commenting specifically on VAR\u2019s deployment in England but suggested that, across the board, it is guilty of overreach.<\/p>\n\u201cWe forgot a little bit, everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cEight years ago, I came to London and we discussed what VAR stands for. We spoke about clear mistakes, because technology works so well in factual decisions. In objective decisions, it is fantastic.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubjective evaluation is more difficult. That\u2019s why we started to speak about clear and obvious mistakes: clear evidence. I believe that we need to speak about this again in our meetings at the end of the season. We cannot go in this direction of microscopic VAR intervention. We love football like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosetti criticised the overuse of slow-motion replays to diagnose offences that may be relatively harmless in real time. \u201cWe call this moviola,\u201d he said, referring to a 1920s film-editing machine. \u201cWhen you are watching the situation with the super-slow motion, you can find a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Premier League\u2019s VAR intervention rate of 0.15 per match for on-field reviews \u2013 0.27 including \u201cfactual reviews\u201d that do not demand the referee\u2019s interpretation \u2013 is the lowest in Europe but it is roundly accused of overly pedantic use. In the Champions League, the overall rate is 0.47.<\/p>\n
Speaking after Uefa\u2019s annual congress in Brussels, Rosetti said media narratives had played a part in fuelling its overuse. \u201cYou said this, not me,\u201d he said when asked whether VAR is going too far. \u201cYou are guilty in some way, because also you pushed for more interventions. \u2018Where is VAR? Why doesn\u2019t VAR intervene? Why is VAR not involved? What are the VARs doing?\u2019 But now we need to be careful about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In January the International Football Association Board (Ifab), which makes the game\u2019s laws, backed plans for VAR to intervene if necessary on the award of corners and wrongly given second yellow cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto Rosetti, Uefa\u2019s managing director for refereeing, has warned video assistant refereeing is becoming too \u201cmicroscopic\u201d and fears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-478123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}