Chairman of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Referees Committee Pierluigi Collina has signed that at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, sideline referees will not flag controversial offsides, according to lrytas.lt.
According to the Italian, this instruction was given to all tournament sideline referees.
"If you see that the sideline referee is not raising the flag, it does not mean that he does not see the offside," P.Collina's words are quoted by the BBC. - This means that the referee is following instructions.
If the moment is controversial and the attack is promising, the referee should not intervene in the game.
At the end of the episode, if, for example, a goal is scored and there was an offside, then that moment can be reviewed."
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