Story byManqoba Mngqithi adamant Chiefs goal offside, calls for VARFoot AfricaWed, January 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM UTC·2 min readInterviewMngqithi insists Chiefs goal illegitimate, advocates for VARPhoto: Daniel Hlongwane/ Gallo ImagesGolden Arrows head coach Manqoba Mngqithi has called for the implementation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) following his team's narrrow defeat to Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe KwaZulu-Natal outfit succumbed to a solitary first-half goal from Aden McCarthy, which has them team sitting 10th with 16 points from 15 Betway Premiership outings. However, Mngqithi feels hard done by as he believes the Soweto giants snatched maximum points through an illegitimate goal, but refrained from pointing fingers to the officials.“It's not what we were looking for and it's worse when we lose from an offside goal. But I do not want to blame the officials on this one, I think it's high time that the league looks at this thing differently,” he said."The reality is the game has become very dynamic, it's very difficult for officials to follow every movements and even ourselves some of these things we see them very late because we've had a chance of looking at the video footage. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"So, we can't expect referees to be able to be in touch with everything that happens in the game because on the first ball that was played, Aden was not offside, but when the ball touched [Flavio] Silva - Aden was already offside and that is an offside because he scored after that action. The former Mamelodi Sundowns mentor reiterated his stance on the VAR, urging the PSL and relevant stakeholders to up the ante, as the most attractive league on the continent.“The reality is the VAR is more than important. We are not playing for R200, we are playing for R20 million, so it's very important that we up our game as well - as the biggest league in Africa, we have to up our game,” Mngqithi added.