Albion can expect a few changes to the use of VAR as they kick off the new Premier League season.

The league will look to clamp down on so-called ‘soft’ penalties while attackers are set to benefit from the scrapping of so-called 'toenail' offsides.

Referees' chief Mike Riley says the bar for awarding fouls and spot-kicks for lower-body contact will be raised, following feedback from players, coaches and chief executives gathered in a March survey.

On-field officials and VARs will be told to establish clear contact, whether it has a consequence and whether an attacking player has tried to use that contact to win a penalty.

"It's not sufficient just to say 'yes, there was contact'," Riley, the general manager of Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) said.

"Contact on its own is only part of what referees should look for. If you've got clear contact that has a consequence, then that's what you have got to penalise."

The likely result of this change will be a drop in the number of penalties awarded. There were 125 given last season, 92 in 2019-20, 103 in 2018-19 and 80 in 2017-18.

The assessment of marginal offsides will also change next season, Riley said.

One-pixel lines will still be used in the working-out process, but this will no longer be broadcast.

Instead, the final, thicker broadcast lines will be used, and when these thicker lines drawn for the attacker and defender overlap, the attacker will be deemed onside.

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"Effectively what we give back to the game is 20 goals that would have been disallowed last season by using quite forensic scrutiny," he said.

"So it's the toenails, the noses being given offside. They might have been given offside last season, next season they won't be."

The light-touch approach to VAR seen at the Euros drew widespread praise.

But it is expected there will be a higher level of intervention than was seen in the summer tournament.

Riley says there will be a concerted effort to keeping the game flowing.

He added: "The Euros were really good in a lot of respects.

“There was a greater acceptance of referees not intervening for small contacts and that allowed the game to flow.

"One of the encouraging things is that we're going into next season with people expecting that threshold to be in a higher place than last year."

Asked whether fans should expect the Premier League to be refereed like the Euros, Riley said: "Tournament football is different to domestic football.

“We referee in the best way that suits the Premier League. But raising that bar for intervention is a good thing, and making sure that VARs intervene only where we have got clear and obvious evidence."