Moviola on the field, historic yes
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Historic yes for the use of on-field moviola by Fifa’s International Board.
It will in fact begin a two-year trial of the use of monitors and replays by referees to adjudicate certain dubious situations.
As the document published by Fifa reports, “the goal is not to achieve 100 percent fairness in decisions, but to avoid clear inaccuracies on the field of play, those errors in good substance that can change the fate of a match, namely goals, penalties, direct red cards, and mistaken identity.”
This is what is envisaged: experimentation with the presence of a “video assistant referee” (VAR), i.e., a referee assigned to control the match on a monitor, during the course of the match, able to communicate in a “proactive” manner regarding the most complicated cases, namely: phantom goals, penalties, ejections and exchanges of person.
