Leroy Sane has just gone down in the box under minimal contact from Burnley ’s Jack Cork.
Referee Graham Scott has allowed play to continue and, from David Silva’s cross, Bernardo Silva rifles the ball into the roof of Nick Pope’s net.
My eyes leave the action on the main screen, flicking down and left to another screen showing the game on a three-second delay.
“I’ll need another look at that,” I say, nodding sagely, and I push the red button on my desk to let the four match officials know I’m running a VAR check.
That’s the easy bit done and, frankly, this is where I start to flounder as I wonder what to check first.
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The potential foul on Sane seems the obvious place to start, but, hey, this is the Premier League’s VAR Hub and that isn’t how things work here.
Thankfully, my Hawk-Eye operator, Mo, is on it and has already scrolled back to the moment David Silva got on the ball.
If there are no problems with his cross or Bernardo’s finish, City haven’t been disadvantaged, so there’s no point worrying about the potential infringement from Cork.
“No one’s offside,” I say and Mo nods with the look of a man who’d worked that out a while ago.
Hang on, though. The ball looks suspiciously like it had gone out of play before the pull-back and when we zoom in for a freeze-frame that is confirmed.
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It means the goal isn’t going to stand, which, in turn, brings the penalty check back into play and, after two reruns of that, I’m inclined to give it because, although soft, contact was made.
“Yes, penalty,” I declare triumphantly, informing referee’s chief Mike Riley of my decision.
“You’re sacked,” he quips. “Sane’s backlift arguably causes the contact as much as anything Cork did and, most importantly, we wouldn’t overturn the referee’s decision because it wasn’t a clear and obvious error in the first place.”
Riley hadn’t even accounted for the fact I’d taken more than three minutes to reach a decision when he showed me the red card.
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On average, teams take 62 seconds to celebrate a goal and, when VAR is rolled out in all 380 Premier League games next season, the expectation is that most checks will be complete by the time both sides are ready to restart.
Of course, VAR wasn’t in use when the game I’m ‘adjudicating’ actually took place back in January – and Bernardo’s goal stood.
That was one of 35 Key Match Incidents that Premier League officials got wrong up to matchday 33 — with 82 per cent of KMIs called correctly.
Had VAR been available, that figure would have been 87 per cent.
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So obviously, VAR won’t settle every argument, but when we’re talking about decisions next season, we must remember two key starting points.
Firstly, the words “clear and obvious error” will be vital to each decision.
And, secondly, the job of those in the VAR Hub is nowhere near as easy as you might think.
