Referees will announce VAR decisions to stadium crowds for the first time this week in a move that officials hope is the first step to broadcasting their decision-making process.
Football’s lawmakers begin the 12-month trial at the Club World Cup where mic’d-up referees, including the Premier League’s Anthony Taylor, will inform spectators of VAR decisions – similar to officials in American Football.
Premier League referees have been practising for the last year for their communications to be broadcast to spectators and television viewers with the feeling among officials that such a move cannot come soon enough.