The Premier League has announced it is introducing semi-automated offside technology from Saturday 12 April with the Blues in action away at Chelsea the following day.

The move follows non-live testing in the Premier League as well as live operation in the FA Cup this season.

The Premier League’s website explains how the system works: “Semi-automated offside technology automates key elements of the offside decision-making process to support the video assistant referee (VAR).

“It provides more efficient placement of the virtual offside line, using optical player tracking and generates virtual graphics to ensure an enhanced in-stadium and broadcast experience for fans.

“The technology maintains the integrity of the process while enhancing the speed, efficiency, and consistency of offside decision-making.

“The Premier League has worked in collaboration with PGMOL and sports data and technology company Genius Sports to develop the new semi-automated offside technology system.”

Photo: Premier League

ArnieM added 18:18 - Apr 1 May as well get rid if I'll on the pitchnofficalz niw fir I'll they're earth, and use second hand video ( VAR) " officials" whi can mull iver every little innocuous incident snd pick it to pieces for 3-4 mins at a time. Football is DEAD!
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ArnieM added 18:20 - Apr 1 It's impossible to edit text before posting on here, as i can't get the text box to scroll down. So apologies to all ...
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Northstandveteran added 18:45 - Apr 1 Perhaps there will come a time when technology makes instant decisions on everything. The only official needed would be a big bloke to hand out a few slaps to those players who show petulance and disrespect.
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RobsonWark added 19:00 - Apr 1 As if VAR doesn't make enough wrong decisions. Now get ready for even more errors and more 0-0's as they'll probably look for even more excuses to not give a goal. What happened to giving the attacker the benefit of the doubt to make games more exciting for the fans?
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PhuketPete added 06:24 - Apr 2 If we look back at this season, I feel we’ve been on the wrong end of calls as often due to Ref mistakes as by VAR. Both are imperfect. The differences seem to me to lie in the excessive time taken for VAR officials to review and of course the high cost of both the VAR Tech and march officials. On balance id happily dump VAR. That said I believe goal line and offside technology are of value providing the systems are correctly programmed. There is also value in monitoring of the ball Incidents.

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PhuketPete added 06:26 - Apr 2 “match officials” and “off the ball”. My turn for typos
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Tampa_Florida_Blue added 17:55 - Apr 2 For those glass half empty comments on here. We have been complaining that refs can favor the “elite” teams, I am hoping this evens that out some what
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