'we Don't Referee Differently With Var'

Match officials do not referee matches immoderate otherwise contempt nan "safety net" of video adjunct referees, says retired Premier League charismatic Darren Cann.

Cann, 56, retired this period aft complete 1,000 games arsenic an adjunct referee, including a grounds 579 successful nan Premier League.

The VAR strategy was introduced successful nan Premier League astatine nan commencement of nan 2019-20 season.

There is often a proposal that referees do not make a determination connected nan transportation because they cognize VAR should make nan correct one.

"Not everybody likes VAR and I judge that view," Cann told BBC Sport.

"But from a lucifer official's constituent of view, it is simply a really valuable tool.

"I would for illustration to dispel a myth. People deliberation we referee otherwise because location is VAR but thing could beryllium further from nan truth.

"My mindset is to eliminate VAR from that 90 minutes by getting my decisions right. Our mindset is to make nan correct decision.

"If we do make a clear and evident correction we do person nan information nett of VAR."

Cann has welcomed nan preamble of semi-automated offside, which came into nan Premier League connected nan play of his last game.

The exertion uses artificial intelligence and typical cameras to make nan judgement of tight offside calls quicker and easier.

"In erstwhile seasons it could return up to 50 seconds conscionable to tie nan lines earlier they came to a decision," said Cann.

"With semi-automated offside nan lines are automatically drawn astatine nan constituent wherever nan shot is kicked. That speeds up nan checks.

"It won't impact nan adjunct referees connected nan pitch. They still make their calls. But it does velocity up nan checks."

Cann's biggest 2 games came successful 2010 - nan Champions League last and World Cup final.

"Before VAR I sewage an offside incorrect successful a Premier League crippled that still haunts maine to this day," said Cann.

"It was only half a gait and was 1 of those wherever a guardant and defender transverse complete astatine precocious speed. I conscionable sewage my timing incorrect and flagged erstwhile I shouldn't have.

"I mislaid concentration. That is 20 years agone and it still hurts."