It was supposed to be the innovation that made offside decisions ... meaning VAR would need to resort to the previous method of drawing lines on the images manually. That was the case at Bournemouth.

The VAR manually selects ... tell that a player is offside. This isn't in place in the Champions League, LaLiga, Serie A or FIFA competitions, as seen in the image below from the World Cup ...

But the entire tie was overshadowed by one of the longest VAR checks yet after the new technology was unable to produce a result - despite claims that the average offside decision would become 30 ...

VAR is set for a change ahead of this weekend’s FA Cup fifth round (Picture: Getty) This weekend’s FA Cup fifth round will see the implementation of semi-automated offside technology (SOAT ...