That’s exactly what I’m saying though, before this change, the VARs were under a directive that if the on-field referee had given a penalty, and if there was any slight contact from the defender, then they weren’t allowed to overturn it. Dale Johnson talked a lot about this in the VAR review at the time. I think the only exception is when they believed the attacking player initiated the contact.

This change in theory, will help with that, and give the VAR more power to step in and prevent things like the Wolves incidents. Whether that’s actually the case, we’ll see.