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FWIW, somebody posted this on reddit from The Athletic

I vaguely remember that one of the arguments against replays in the stadium was the fear of enraging the crowd, potentially leading to trouble. You see a, I don't know, Chelsea player lash out and kick your star forward right in his recently injured knee (totally hypothetical, of course) and...

It is 100% true that the challenge system is much better suited to the NFL because, as you say, it's stop-start already, being broken down into discrete "plays", and, more importantly, it has a stop clock. So time spent on a challenge doesn't change the game clock.

Another thought on offsides. I suspect the original intention of the rule wasn't to be measuring toenails to see if they are just past the last defenders ass cheek. The idea was to prevent deliberate goal hanging which would cause games to degenerate into a game of super long balls to the guy...

This has been what I've been thinking about this morning. Each side gets some number of challenges, let's say three (although you can adjust that to suit your taste). If the coach or the captain asks for a review, then it goes to VAR, otherwise the on-field decision stands. It'll make them...

It's easy to say the refs are incompetent and should all be replaced by better ones, but I can't help but notice that nobody seems to have a suggestion on how you'd achieve that? Who would even want to be a referee in this climate? I fear if you get too aggressive with demoting or otherwise...

Are there problems with VAR? Absolutely. 100% Is the solution to throw out the baby with the bath water? That I'm less sure about. Surely a better VAR would be better than no VAR at all? Not that I'm sure what exactly would make a better VAR. But as others have mentioned, we have technology...