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What are the refs being fed verbally by the VAR team.

Psychologically what does it do to their own determination.

If they're just asked to review it independently, without the extra layer of judgement/direction placed on top in the communication by the VAR team, does it change their approach?

Or is it a subconscious case of "Tell me what you want me to see"?

If it wouldn't lead to more haranguing by the players, I'd almost say if the refs were honest and actively just said I didn't really see that one so well I'm going to need a second look and just took themselves over to the pitchside monitor it would be a better solution and they'd still retain more of the authority or agency in that sort of situation.

I genuinely don't know what would be the most elegant solution right now.

- Keep it simple with the 3 or 4 officials on the day and accept things get missed.
- If you want to catch more, and you think refs are going to inevitably miss stuff as the game is faster maybe it'd actually be helpful not to put the one guy on a pedestal at this point? Have it be more of a team decision, a little more like some US sports, and anyone can call out whatever they're seeing be it from a monitor or on the pitch and it becomes more of a huddled decision. But just put a hard time limit on it of 30 seconds or such.