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No, not yet. Once upon a time it was only big rich first division clubs that had to install floodlights.

That's my concern too - and I'm pretty certain we have seen it already. Only thing to do, I suppose, is to make it a rule that the VAR ref cannot give a decision if one is requested - the referees decision will stand, so no point in the ref asking for help. Maybe make it that ref to VAR ref...

This will need to be drummed into referees then, in words of one syllable ....................... several times in some cases! I still want mandatory yellow cards every time for players who run around making that TV screen gesture too - it will take some drumming into them too, and it will...

Absolutely this. The game should be played as if without VAR unless the ref gets a whisper in his ear from the video refs. And it should be added to the laws of the game that any player making that TV screen gesture with his fingers should automatically get a mandatory yellow. Every time they do...

Thin end of the wedge for lower league and grass roots football. We either all play to the same rues or we don't. Still, I suppose if schools and councils are eventually required to install VAR on all their pitches, and clubs will have to meet the costs, plus paying for six refs, not just one...

I don't think the refs should have the option of calling up VAR - only to be used if there's a word in his ear from the video ref saying 'you might have got that wrong, mate'. I don't suppose they'll bring this in now though - too late because of existing VAR practices elsewhere. What I would...