Football bosses consider drastic VAR change for World Cup to fix loophole that allowed Man United to score

Football bosses could reportedly implement a major change to VAR rules ahead of the World Cup, with FIFA aiming to avoid key errors at next summer's tournament.

FIFA have been pushing for VAR officials to be given the power to intervene in the event they believe a corner has been incorrectly awarded.

Lawmakers, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), have discussed the prospect among possible changes to VAR rules.

According to reports, FIFA could be granted special permission to extend VAR's powers without them being officially written into the rules of the game.

The governing body's desire for VAR to have the ability to intervene regarding corners is due to the verdicts being factual decisions, rather than subjective.

A change would likely break Law Five, which applies at all levels of the game.

The law states that a referee 'may not change a restart decision on realising that it is incorrect or on the advice of another match official if play has restarted'.

An IFAB advisory panel, consisting of former players, coaches and referees, had reportedly expressed concerns over such a move.

Concerns were raised about the potential of matches being slowed down by checks, with Premier League games seeing on average around 10 corners per match.

The potential use of VAR for corners would likely receive the support of Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche, who called for its introduction last month.

Dyche had complained after his Forest side had conceded goals in consecutive weeks from corners that had been wrongly awarded.

Bournemouth's Marcus Tavernier scored directly from a corner when Forest should have been awarded a goal kick, with Casemiro then scoring from a Man United set piece the following week, despite Nicolo Savona insisting he had kept the ball in play.

Dyche insisted that VAR checking the decisions would be 'really quick'.

'It's got to change,' Dyche said post-match. You don't need three minutes to look at that, it's a very simple moment.

'Last week was an incredibly simple moment, a factually wrong decision. That must take five seconds, end of. Surely?

'There is a lot at stake in these games. So just get it right, we all want it right, every fan wants it right.

'It's gone against us again and we have just got to get on with it, simple as that. You know the worst thing as well? Back in the game for three games and two weeks on the trot I'm talking about referees and decisions. That is really frustrating. I don't want to be talking about this, do I? I want to be talking about my team.

'You're the assistant referee, you're 70-odd yards away, you've got a goal and a net in the way but apparently you can see? I've got a better view and I'm not in the right position!

'So, that's got to be wrong in the current climate. The thing that annoys me the most - and I'm a big fan of VAR - is that someone has got to be able to overrule these decisions, just really quickly, it will be five seconds.

'Just go 'that's in play'. It's deemed out of play, [Manchester United] whack it in and score a goal. Two weeks on the trot.

'Course, you could say you've got to deal with the corner kick… point is it shouldn't even be that, so that's really difficult.

'And then to give you my reasoning behind it which I think is more important because people say 'yeah it's just on the line' well it's on the line? Imagine a goal is scored and it beeps [the watch] for the ref, what do you do? You've all seen it, it's like 1mm… so how can you see that from 70-80 yards away? For me that's five seconds of VAR.

'The ref is talking to people, wasting time, walking around, waste time, pointless. Big decisions like that… for VAR to override that decision, five seconds and go "bang, done, wrong decision".

The IFAB, which is made up of the four British associations and FIFA, are also considering the use of VAR to review second yellow cards.

A proposal will be heard next month which could give officials the chance to intervene when an incorrect second yellow card has been given.

A total of six votes of eight votes are required to pass a law change, with FIFA having four votes and the four British associations having one each.