Crowd should not have seen Ireland's VAR incident, Uefa confirm

Big-screen replays of potential checks are banned to avoid pressure on refs. 
Crowd should not have seen Ireland's VAR incident, Uefa confirm

VIDEO NASTY: Referee Rade Obrenovic does a VAR check before awarding a penalty to Ireland against Armenia.

Replays of the handball incident which led to Ireland scraping past Armenia on Tuesday should not have been shown on the stadium screen, Uefa have confirmed.

Footage of Video Assisted Referees (VAR) decisions is outlawed inside venues by the European governing body, an attempt to avoid the referee feeling pressurised by the home crowd.

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