Gary Lineker makes bold prediction on Match of the Day that his ‘good idea’ to fix VAR will eventually come in

GARY LINEKER boldly predicted that his extremist program to hole VAR volition yet beryllium adopted by PGMOL.

Lineker was discussing a arguable punishment telephone from Chelsea's 3-0 triumph astatine West Ham with Danny Murphy and Ashley Williams connected Match of the Day.

The Hammers felt cheated erstwhile referee Samuel Barrott failed to grant the location broadside a punishment successful the 28th minute.

Wesley Fofana grabbed clasp of Crysencio Summerville's limb wrong the 18-yard container conscionable earlier the half-hour people erstwhile the people 2-0.

Following a abbreviated review, the VAR advised Barrott to instrumentality with his archetypal determination arsenic Fofana's clasp had lone been 'fleeting'. 

But Lineker, 63, believes helium has the solution to hole the video adjunct referee system.

Earlier this year, the erstwhile England striker said that an entreaty strategy would assistance "add to the drama" in football.

And helium treble downed connected his assertion this weekend.

He believes that determination should beryllium a constricted magnitude of times wherever VAR tin intervene, similar challenging calls successful tennis.

He said connected MOTD connected Saturday night: "Until determination is an entreaty strategy with VAR it volition ever beryllium a problem."

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This prompted Murphy to jokingly reply: "That is 1 of your lone bully ideas."

Lineker past jested: "I know. And it volition come. I volition come."

Speaking connected the Rest is Football podcast successful May, Lineker explained: "The lone mode retired of this mess, and I deliberation they should support offside and goal-line technology.

"But I deliberation you either scrap the remainder of it or, much realistically, you instrumentality it to an entreaty system.

"You bounds the magnitude of times that VAR tin interfere. It tin not intervene unless idiosyncratic appeals.

"It has to beryllium the skipper and they person got to archer you what they are appealing for.

"It does not mean determination is simply a extremity and you person got to find immoderate benignant of foul somewhere.

"They person to stipulate what the foul is, the skipper does it, and if it is simply a foul past it is simply a foul, determination is nary bar.

"It is the determination that the VAR and the referee travel to.

"Maybe 1 entreaty a half, but it stops VAR coming into each imaginable country that comes in."