This is Rosetti in February this year.
So when exactly and how does the VAR team intervene and communicate with the referee?
The protocol on when and how to use VAR has been defined by the International Football Association Board, which also defines the Laws of the Game. Our guidelines for UEFA matches on how to apply this protocol are very clear: the Video Assistant Referee will only intervene when he has the evidence for a clear and obvious mistake in four match-changing situations – goals and offences leading up to a goal, penalty decisions and offences leading up to a penalty, direct red-card incidents, and mistaken identity.
This includes goals scored after a foul during the attacking phase, or from an offside position. The latest 3D technology will help the Video Assistant Referee to determine whether an offside position has occurred.
The Video Assistant Referee will also intervene when there is evidence of serious foul play, which must be sanctioned with a direct red card in line with the Laws of the Game.
When does VAR intervene during penalty area incidents?
Again, the Video Assistant Referee intervenes only if there is clear evidence: clear foul play in the penalty area to give a penalty or clear evidence there was no infringement to rule out a penalty award. For example, in the case of handball, the Video Assistant Referee must intervene when there is clear evidence of a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with the hand or arm. The movement, distance, and position of the arm or hand are taken into consideration by the VAR team to judge if the contact was punishable, and an on-field review should be made by the referee.
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So more ambiguity. The bit in italics...does it mean goals scored from an offside position or goals scored after an offside offence has occurred in the attacking phase? His words are absolutely clear to me. In my English book, it means the former and Sterling's goal is good to go, as they say. Otherwise, he should have said, ...goals scored after a foul or an offside offence during the attacking phase. But he didn't, he expressly says ...goals..... scored from an offside position. How many versions of the truth will we get? It's almost fascinating. They used to call this sort of shit Byzantine.
All the doubters can have Llorente's goal (but not Otamendi's penalty!) but Sterling's goal, by the words of the BIG UEFA REF, was good because Aguero's offside was not within the remit of the video assistant referee because Aguero didn't score the goal, the onside Sterling did.
Or don't words mean what they mean anymore?
