According to Arsene Wenger, a respected manager at Arsenal in 1996–2018 and now the highest-ranking Fifa official responsible for football's global development, says that the FIFA World Cup in Qatar 2022 could be something out of the ordinary.

Then the Frenchman does not think about the football that is played.

But on football to be judged.

Wenger tells The Times that he believes the automatic system could be ready for the championship.

- I work very hard to ensure that we have automated offside, which means that a signal goes directly to the assistant referees, he says.

A result of the new system will be that the rhythm of the matches will be better compared to today, when the video referee system VAR stops the game.

"On average, we have to wait for about 70 seconds, sometimes 1 minute and 20 seconds ... This is so important because we see that many goal celebrations are interrupted due to marginal situations," says Wenger.

Recently, Marco van Basten, the Netherlands' legendary striker, was of the opinion that the football regulatory body Ifab should consider scrapping offside.

He believes that football would be better without the rule.

Ifab has also announced that they are reviewing the offside rule and plan to test automatic decisions, in order to limit the long wait for VAR reviews.

CLIP: The Norwegian national team took a stand against the World Cup in Qatar (March 24)

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The players in the Norwegian national team entered the field with the message "HUMAN RIGHTS - on and off the pitch".