PGMOL chief Howard Webb will be appearing on TV to analyse some of this season's VAR decisions.
Webb will be joined by pundit Michael Owen for the first episode of 'Match Officials Mic'd Up', which is due to air on Sky Sports at 8pm UK time and TNT Sports at 8.30pm on Wednesday (September 6).
The 26-minute long programme will feature audio from the discussions between match referees and the VAR officials based in Stockley Park to help explain how they reached their conclusions.
It was trialled back in May when Webb joined Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher on Sky's Monday Night Football. The new show will be produced via Premier League Productions.
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It remains to be seen which VAR calls will be discussed, but the 2010 World Cup final referee is certainly not short of options. The system has been one of the major Premier League talking points yet again just four games into the season.
Webb was forced to apologise – far from the first time that's happened – on the opening weekend after ref Simon Hooper, VAR Michael Salisbury and assistant VAR Richard West failed to award Wolves a late penalty in their 1-0 defeat at Manchester United.
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Since then the errors have continued to rain in, with Alexis Mac Allister's sending off against Bournemouth the following week being overturned on appeal – even though VAR didn't do so on the day.
The latest glaring blunder came at the Etihad on Saturday (September 2) when Manuel Akanji was in an offside position for Manchester City's second goal against Fulham, but a VAR check deemed he hadn't interfered with play.
It was widely condemned as the incorrect decision, even by Soccer Saturday officiating analyst Mike Dean and City's hat-trick hero Erling Haaland.
“Yeah, I think it was offside as well, I feel bad for them (Fulham) and I would be fuming after this as well. It’s how it is, it must be a horrible feeling for them," Haaland said in his post-match interview.
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