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You're the only one on here being a dick. Everyone else seems to be debating it alright.

I'm sorry, but you cannot expect footballers to jump like Michael Flatley, thats ridiculous. As long as they're not doing star jumps, or spreading their arms like the Angel of the North, then you have to look at each instance and make a call on its own merits. A referee has to be CERTAIN in...

It was a marginal interpretation of handball. The referee's initial call was perfectly sound in awarding a corner - you will never persuade me that it was a "clear and obvious error" not to award a penalty for that incident. Players cannot make their arms disappear. He was jumping, his back was...

Ask a PSG fan if they're in favour of VAR, after what happened to them in the dying seconds of that United game. You can still get royally screwed by a duff VAR call on a marginal decision. It'll get some stuff right, but not everything, because it'll still always boil down to human...

The way VAR is SUPPOSED to work, is that the on-field ref makes all his decisions and calls as he normally would, and only gets alerted by the VAR if he has made a clear and obvious error. He cannot refer to VAR if he's unsure on a call, or wants assistance, he just refs the game as he normally...