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England boss Gareth Southgate insists he has never been a fan of VAR and would prefer just to accept referees\u2019 decisions.<\/p>\n
The off-field decision-making process has come under renewed fire this week after Liverpool were denied a fair goal in their defeat at Tottenham when VAR Darren England mistakenly thought the on-field decision was onside, but instead validated the linesman\u2019s offside call.<\/p>\n
There has been a huge fallout from the gaffe, with Reds boss Jurgen Klopp calling for the game to be replayed while the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) has announced a review into VAR.<\/p>\n
Southgate\u2019s side were victims of a contentious call in the early days of VAR when Jesse Lingard had a goal disallowed in the semi-final of the Nations League in 2019 after a questionable offside decision.<\/p>\n
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And the manager\u2019s fondness for the system has not grown since then.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, when you say I was at the forefront of it, I wasn\u2019t for it,\u201d Southgate said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first experience of it\u2026we\u2019re still not sure if the Jesse Lingard goal that knocked us out of a semi-final was legit or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like it. I think we should just accept referees\u2019 decisions, but I also know that we\u2019re unlikely to go back to a world where we don\u2019t have technology as part of that decision-making process.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was never going to resolve every issue and I don\u2019t think there is any solution that will achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n