SA football has no reason to delay introducing video assistant refereeing (VAR) after a spate of bad decisions by match officials in the 2018-19 Premier Soccer League (PSL) season‚ Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt says. The Clever Boys were on the receiving end of bad decisions in their 1-1 drawn Premiership match against SuperSport United a week ago when referee Phelelani Ndaba disallowed a legitimate goal that could have kept Wits in the league title race had they won. Ndaba has since been suspended for three months by the SA Football Association (Safa)‚ but Hunt says SA football needs more than the suspension of officials to improve. The Wits coach is advocating for the implementation of VAR in the PSL. The system is already in operation in some European leagues. “I think it’s all over the world [referees making mistakes]. The game is so fast now it’s very difficult to make decisions‚” he says. “That’s why you need VAR and that type of stuff ... it helps you. It would have...
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