Premier League golf equipment have unanimously voted to introduce semi-automated offside know-how into the division subsequent season.
At a gathering between the 20 top-flight groups on Thursday, every of the Premier League golf equipment voted in favour of implementing the know-how within the 2024/25 marketing campaign.
Semi-automated offsides are already utilized in varied competitions, together with the Champions League, whereas a model of the know-how, utilizing a chip embedded contained in the match ball, was applied on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. It’s going to even be used at Euro 2024 in Germany this summer season.
The choice of the golf equipment comes following criticism of the present offside course of, wherein officers use VAR and Hawk-Eye to make calls.
Nevertheless, plenty of errors – together with an incident that noticed Liverpool’s Luis Diaz denied an onside aim towards Tottenham earlier this season – and the size of time required to make a decision have left followers pissed off.
In an announcement, the Premier League stated the know-how will carry ‘present faster and constant’ offside calls.
“The know-how will present faster and constant placement of the digital offside line, based mostly on optical participant monitoring, and can produce high-quality broadcast graphics to make sure an enhanced in-stadium and broadcast expertise for supporters,” the Premier League stated.
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