Could AI automated offside be the answer to VAR.
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Automated offsides could be in use in Premier League by 2023 after success of secret trials
Fifa hopeful that ‘game-changing’ technology using artificial intelligence will also be in place for 2022 World Cup
Hawk-Eye has been testing its “skeletal player tracking system” at one Premier League club this season, with more trials planned at Liverpool, Chelsea and the two Manchester clubs next campaign
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Martyn Ziegler, Chief Sports Reporter
Thursday May 27 2021, 5.00pm, The Times
New technology designed to instantly detect offsides by using artificial intelligence is on course to be introduced in the Premier League in two years’ time after “extremely promising” results from secret tests at one top-flight club and with more trials planned at four English stadiums next season.
The automated offside system would replace the controversial VAR offside lines and should provide match officials with an instant message sent to their watch when a player is offside, instead of what is now often a wait of a minute or longer — which has led to frustration among players, managers, pundits and fans. The referee and assistants would then have to judge only if the attacker deemed offside was interfering with play.
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