WHERE's being or not being is a question that is constantly relevant.
One of the areas where it is often discussed extensively is in connection with goals, where there can sometimes be quite long VAR checks to see if a player was offside or not.
"Very good and promising"
Today, after the football's governing body Ifab held its annual meeting, Fifa president Gianni Infantino revealed that it is possible that a new system, described as "a semi-automatic VAR", could be used at the World Cup in Qatar later this year.
- It looks very good and promising.
We have tested it at the club team WC and the Arab Cup.
We are very happy so far, Infantino said at a press conference.
Twelve different cameras
Referee Pierluigi Collina sounded even more positive.
- I can confirm that the results of the tests have been very positive.
We will continue to work with it and my personal opinion is that I am very confident that we can move forward with this, he said.
The current system would work in such a way that twelve different cameras will monitor 29 different points on each player, plus the ball.
They send data 50 times per second to determine if a player is offside or not.
- It is very similar to the process with goal line technology, and we have seen that the process with goal line technology is very accepted by the football family.
Nobody complains about this, and you see it as positive that it will be right even if the ball is only one centimeter inside.
So we are sure that it would be the same acceptance through a semi-automatic VAR offside help, says Collina.