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FIFA Outage Kills VAR Offside Graphic, Sparks Criticism

6/15/2026

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FIFA said a brief technical outage stopped the VAR offside graphic before the 14th-minute penalty against Qatar.
FIFA said the outage was quickly fixed and the VAR workflow remained intact, with the lines showing no offside.
Broadcasts omitted the usual 3D offside graphic and any replay of the incident.
ITV pundits Gary Neville and Ian Wright called FIFA’s handling a “dictatorship” and “scandalous,” undermining trust.

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FIFA said a brief technical outage stopped the VAR offside graphic before the 14th-minute penalty against Qatar.
FIFA said the outage was quickly fixed and the VAR workflow remained intact, with the lines showing no offside.
Broadcasts omitted the usual 3D offside graphic and any replay of the incident.
ITV pundits Gary Neville and Ian Wright called FIFA’s handling a “dictatorship” and “scandalous,” undermining trust.