It feels absolutely essential that the audio is released.
We know they're all mic'ed up. What on earth happened there? Where they even in the room? Had one of them gone to the toilet? Was Comms down?
There has to be an explanation...
Yeah the Henry example is a very good one. So clear. Such an important moment.
But how often did that kind of thing happen? Obviously there's Maradona too. Again, huge. But those were occasional, extremely unfortunate quirks of relying mostly on three on field folk to make the correct decisions...
The way I see it is there's three major issues here:
1. English football has made some strange decisions about implementing VAR- IE not using semi automated offsides.
2. There's too much inconsistency from VAR and referees.
3. There's too much scrutiny during a game and afterwards. Not just the...