Referees have taken on three new roles over the past year or so, making them a more prominent part of broadcasts than ever ...

Must do better? Yes, afraid so. Easy as it is to cast aspersions on former colleagues from the ivory tower of retirement, referees’ accuracy in the Premier League has dipped this season and a strong ...

Ex-Fiorentina and Milan star Riccardo Montolivo complains that VAR has ‘more power’ than on-the-field referees: ‘It should be the other way around, like this, it’s a mess.’ Italian referees are under ...

Wayne Rooney believes errors made during the Aston Villa v Newcastle FA Cup tie at the weekend show there is an over-reliance on VAR. Referee Chris Kavanagh and his assistants Gary Beswick and Nick ...