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Letter: VAR in football can learn lessons from other sports (2)

Published 11 December 2024

From Jon Hinwood, Melbourne, Australia

Daisy Christodoulou’s lament for the English Premier League under VAR shows that football administrators in the UK aren’t cricket fans. Many major cricket matches have an off-field third umpire who is equipped with scientific monitoring systems, but who doesn’t interfere unless one team appeals an on-field decision to them. Each team has a limit of three unsuccessful appeals, after which no more can be made. This prevents gaming the system and reduces the number of delayed decisions.

Issue no. 3521 published 14 December 2024

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