The Premier League have confirmed that VAR will not be in use until further notice in Tottenham’s match with Nottingham Forest due to a fire alarm at Stockley Park.
Sky Sports relayed the news at the start of their coverage of the second half of Monday night’s match. The Premier League then confirmed that was the case in a social media post, which read: “The match will be operating without VAR until further notice due to a fire alarm at the VAR Hub at Stockley Park.”
In an update issued less than five minutes later by the Sky Sports commentary team, it was confirmed that those within Stockley Park were back in their positions, meaning the interruption of service lasted just minutes.
This was confirmed in a follow up post, which read: “VAR is now back up and running.”
Fortunately there were no major incidents which needed reviewing during the brief outage. VAR was called upon earlier in the evening, though, to rule out a goal for the visitors.
Chris Wood thought he’d doubled Forest’s lead only for his strike to be double-checked. And the Premier League confirmed that semi-automated technology determined the New Zealand striker was offside.
This was confirmed in a social media post, which read: “VAR checked the referee’s call of goal – and established that Wood was in an offside position and recommended that the goal was disallowed.”
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