"Referees could be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) one day, reckons Livingston manager David Martindale. Semi-automated offside technology has been around since the 2022 World Cup and Martindale is predicting further advances to reduce human error. The Scottish Premiership is nearing three years of video assistant referees (VAR) but does not yet have goal-line or offside technology, with the cost proving prohibitive."
"You're using the footage, but it's the personnel that's then interpreting that footage, so that's a big problem for me. "I think I'm in a great position to speak about this because I was VAR previously, no VAR, and VAR again. "What was the first goal this season? Falkirk, here and we score, and I'm running away, I'm up the touchline celebrating with my players, and I'm like, 'you might not even get this goal'. That elation, the drop off, it's terrible."
Artificial intelligence and semi-automated offside systems are expected to advance and potentially replace match referees to reduce human error. Semi-automated offside technology has been used since the 2022 World Cup. The Scottish Premiership has used VAR for nearly three years but lacks goal-line and offside technology because of prohibitive costs. A Scottish FA VAR independent review panel found 90.3% of on-field decisions correct, rising to 97.8% when including VAR interventions. This season has produced several controversial VAR incidents. Livingston contributes more than £100,000 per season toward VAR running costs, and those costs are rising.
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