Kevin Nolan: 'Managers should be given chance to make use of VAR'

Kevin Nolan has claimed that managers should be given power to use video assisted refereeing (VAR) to challenge major decisions.

At present, either the referee or the video assistant can make use of the system when there is a "clear and obvious error" involving goals, penalty awards, red cards, or mistaken identity.

Nolan, meanwhile, is proposing a system similar to tennis or cricket, and thinks both managers should be allowed one unsuccessful challenge per match.

"You won't have as many stops, possibly only two. Once you've got it wrong, as a manager you have to say 'right, keep schtum and trust the referee', the Notts County boss told BBC Sport.

"Give managers a flag to say we want something reviewing. That stops the game right away.

"What it [the review] will do is tell the referee that he got something that he's seen spot on and that will give him a confidence boost, or they will go 'fair enough you have seen something different, so let's have a look at it'.

"What VAR does is give us the opportunity to go to the screen if we need to.

"Say I think it is a penalty and the referee hasn't given it, I can put the flag up and say I want to look at the penalty.

Then if we go to the VAR and give the penalty, I keep my flag. If it's not, I lose it and then we have the discussion afterwards. That is the best way."

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