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All referees are different and players have to acclimate themselves to different referees. VAR is constant and the players will get reversals where the referees are not calling to the VAR constant. We all know that referees are human. How often do we complain about certain referees calling the...

It is changing our sport. The players must change with the sport but after a while everyone will be acclimated to the way to play and we all will accept it. CHANGE IS HARD. When new kits are introduced many people don't like them but eventually everybody gets acclimated to them.

Do THE RULES say a player is offside if he is offside by a nose hair? I think the answer is obvious. Whether the player or referee can "see" it or recognize it should not make the difference.

Who is to say how far the rules are to be enforced? You enjoy football for your own reasons. Learn not to be offside. Don't depend on the referee not to enforce the rules because he can't see it as well as the replay. It changes the game but it is THE RULES.

There you go. The rules are the rules. Same thing happened in baseball with umpires using replays. Players had to learn not to slide past the base because the video could "see" the slight difference that umpires couldn't recognize before. Maybe all along players were offside BY RULE and...

Yes, but it changed the momentum of the match and gave the West Ham fans something to rally around. It won't last but it was interesting.