Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch suggests that the Premier League can learn from sports in the United States regarding the implementation of VAR.
Marsch has been charged by the Football Association after he was shown a red card following his response to referee Rob Jones' decision not to award his side a penalty in Saturday's 5-2 defeat at Brentford.
Crysencio Summerville’s shirt was pulled by Brentford defender Aaron Hickey outside the box before he was tripped just inside the penalty area. The referee deemed it to be a fair challenge and the incident wasn’t referred to VAR.
VAR caused controversy at a number of Premier League games over the weekend and Marsch believes the term 'clear and obvious' remains a huge grey area.
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Marsch said in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports: “The biggest thing for me is there is this 'clear and obvious' debate. If it takes four minutes to make the decision against us then maybe that’s not clear and obvious when the decision on the pitch was to not give a penalty.
"I am aware that that is the threshold right now. In most of the sports in the US, clear and obvious is not part of the vernacular, it’s just make the right decision. Use the video review to make the right decision and I think ultimately that’s how it should be used.
“It’s still new in our game and it’s sensitive. When I was in MLS they started with VAR, when I was in Austria they didn’t have it but in [the] Champions League we did, then in Germany [we did].
“I still know that the processes in different countries are different, the standards for how to use it are a little bit different and the execution. The point of VAR is to give the referee’s a little bit of support to make the right decisions and then it’s frustrating for everybody when people think that the right decisions are still not being made.
“You would hope and would like to see VAR used for the benefit of decision-making and the fairness of the game and that is ultimately the goal."
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