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Replace all referees in VAR with retired professional football players.

Submitted on Thursday 22nd October 2020

Rejected on Thursday 12th November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Replace all referees in VAR with retired professional football players.

Petition Details

Football is the national sport and referees are spoiling it with their bad implementation of VAR. They are using VAR to cover errors by the on-field referee. The VAR officials should all be former players who love football, ideally players who have been the victim of poor referring decisions.

Additional Information

Pass a law that says VAR must be run by former players so that there can be no conflict of interest and no covering of mistakes for the on-field referee.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The choice of VAR officials is run by the Premier League and the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) group. See www.premierleague.com/VAR/FAQs

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