Video assistant referee - basically extra referees who help to make decisions by watching replays - used in many major Football (soccer) tournaments. In the off

Video assistant referee - basically extra referees who help to make decisions by watching replays - used in many major Football (soccer) tournaments. In the offside rule (used in Pro competitions) you can't pass to a teammate, who is stood nearer to the opposing teams goal than any of the opposing team, excluding the goalkeeper. Subtle, brief, hard to spot infractions of the offside rule are possible. So one use of VAR is: when the regular referees think someone may have been offside during the lead up to scoring, they can pause the game and wait for the VAR team to look through where people where when the pass in question happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee