Football's global rule-makers, the International Football Association Board, have given their clearest indication yet that they will update their guidance on the use of VAR so that only “clear and obvious” offside mistakes are overruled.

It follows another outcry this weekend at how VAR is being used in the Premier League, with the most marginal offside decisions being analysed using several camera angles, and goals controversially ruled out for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crystal Palace, Norwich City, Brighton and Sheffield United.

Uefa are also now firmly behind a push to eradicate marginal VAR offsides from next season amid particular concern that the fractional decisions on offsides are themselves based on questionable calculations.

Lukas Brud, the general secretary of IFAB, said on Monday that his organisation will reissue guidance on VAR best practice next season - probably after its annual general meeting at the end of February - which will include specific information on offsides. That advice is expected to be that technology cannot definitively make a ruling on offside as it can over whether a shot has crossed the goal line, and that VAR should therefore only be used to correct "clear and obvious" mistakes. “Clear and obvious still remains - it's an important principle," said Brud. "If you spend multiple minutes trying to identify whether it is offside or not, then it’s not clear and obvious.