VAR

Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo has backed Arsene Wenger’s calls to change VAR and the way the offside rule is applied.

Arsene Wenger is proposing that football authorities stop being idiots with VAR and eliminate the marginal offside calls that are so far from clear and obvious they may as well be a lump of coal in a black coat out for a late-night stroll along an unlit country road.

VAR will be used in the Europa League knock-out stages which start this week with Arsenal welcoming Olympiacos to the Emirates.

Arsenal won 4-0 against Newcastle United on Sunday, but that shouldn’t stop us drawing attention to a terrible offside decision against Mesut Özil in the second half.

The Premier League has no intention of changing how it uses VAR to adjudicate marginal offsides despite a reminder from the International Football Association Board that VAR is supposed to be used for ‘clear and obvious errors’.

Arsenal against Brighton was a lot of things, few of them good as we moved closer to the relegation zone with our first home league defeat of the season, so here are 23 things I noticed from Thursday night.

Arsene Wenger believes Premier League referees should be using the pitch-side monitors to check their decisions more often.

Arsene Wenger has called on Premier League refs to use pitchside monitors as they continue to struggle with using VAR.

Arsenal went to Leicester in search of only their third cleansheet in their last 25 Premier League away games and, as you know, couldn’t find it.

Arsenal are reportedly ‘seething’ over the VAR calls that cost them the game against Crystal Palace on Sunday but they might be slightly misguided in their thinking.

In this edition of the Daily Cannon Arsenal podcast, Matthew and Anita make sense of Sunday’s madness, tackle the VAR confusion, ponder potential captaincy candidates…

With both VAR decisions going against Arsenal this weekend, it seems as if the new tech has it in for the Gunners, but are the refs really screwing Arsenal or are we just imagining it?

Former Premier League Mark Clattenburg has said that both VAR decisions at the Emirates were wrong.

There is no other word for it but ‘sh*t show’ when it comes to describing Arsenal against Crystal Palace.

On this week’s Daily Cannon Weekly podcast, episode 215, host Matthew Wade took some time to discuss the yellow cards stats an article on the site threw up after the game against Manchester United, showing how unfairly Arsenal are being treated.

The Premier League has reportedly told referees to use VAR more to put an end to the controversies we’ve already seen this season but the referees are happy with how things are going.

Despite being shown to be using VAR incorrectly over the weekend, Premier League refs have no intention of doing anything about it.

In this edition of the Daily Cannon Arsenal podcast, Stephen and Anita discuss the 3-1 defeat to Liverpool, formation changes, VAR, and how Arsenal will…

The introduction of VAR this season was supposed to bring football into line with other 21st century sports but the Premier League seem determined to make it as useless as possible.

Arsenal collected another three points to keep up their 100% start, winning their opening two games for the first time in 10 years with a 2-1 win over Burnley on Saturday afternoon.