Local football fans will remember the refereeing controversy that plagued the Singapore Premier League (SPL) last season, when Tampines Rovers were beaten 1-0 by Lion City Sailors after Firdaus Kasman’s goal was wrongly ruled out for offside – which resulted in the Football...
Nazeer, who was a professional referee from 1993 to 2010 before he joined FAS, said the tight timeline was a challenge for the team as they had less than a year to train referees and to put everything in place.
Through the Fifa Forward programme, the world governing body will fund up to 90 per cent of infrastructure costs for the implementation of VAR in Singapore. For each SPL match, four officials will be at the match venue as per normal, while the VAR team will be based at the Jalan Besar Stadium’s video operating room. Live broadcast and communication will be fed from the match venue to the team.
Over the weekend, Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the body for match officials in English football, admitted two “significant errors” with VAR offside decisions, including one that went against Arsenal in the 1-1 draw with Brentford that could have implications on the Premier League title race.
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