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I think you nailed it when you said "frankly I dont see why football has this craving to be 100% perfect". I'm in complete agreement with you there. Before VAR arrived, you may not always have got the right decision, but it would at least be an honest one, and you'd just have to take the rough...

Blimey. So a ref misses a "clear and obvious error" in the box (a blatant handball, or a terrible penalty decision or whatever), a gamechanging, scorechanging decision. But because we're beyond the 90th minute, it can't be appealed/corrected ? Yes, that'd stop all the controversy at a stroke...

Been saying this all along. Technology works well in other sports because you are essentially reviewing a binary decision. Added to the fact that sports such as NFL, cricket, rugby are for the most part a series of plays, short bursts of action before a natural break in play. Football is not. It...

How on earth would you implement that when, as we can already see, there is (predictably) such a wide spectrum of interpretations and opinions on VAR incidents ? "He's only called for VAR to run the clock down there. Ban him. Fine him". "Hang on though, was that ball to hand or hand to ball ?"...

While I'm banging on, its now emerged that the pitchside monitor was broken, so the ref did not have the option of going to review it for himself. I mean christ. :facepalm:

Also saw this from the BBC report: "The second penalty was given for a foul by Fernandinho on Salif Sane - the referee sticking with his decision after briefly consulting the VAR." If thats what actually happened with that 2nd pen, then its incorrect use of VAR. The referee is supposed to make...

That first penalty decision, in a nutshell, is the problem with VAR. Even after the benefit of the replays, you've got 2 distinct camps, some who believe it was a handball and a pen, and some that don't. Despite the benefit of multiple replays, you're still asking people to make subjective...