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How do you solve VAR & offside? Thicker lines? Scrap it altogether?

Aston Villa were left to lament what might have been on Monday after Ollie Watkins' injury-time goal was disallowed by the video assistant referee in their 2-1 defeat by West Ham.

His upper arm was fractionally offside before he scored - but a replay showed it was because he was trying to get away from Angelo Ogbonna, who was holding him.

It took about two and a half minutes for the goal to be disallowed, while the referees' body later said it was not a penalty because the foul was not a clear and obvious error.