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Hogwash!

That's the problem!

But they ARE nothing to do with clear and obvious. Two minutes later and an aberrant toenail - that is NOT clear and obvious.

But it's not clear and obvious - only 'clear and obvious' (so not all that clear and obvious at all) after two minutes and imaginary lines badly drawn.

Yes, but if it takes three minutes to decide whether that toenail is off-side, then it's not a clear and obvious ERROR. VAR should be for howlers, not millimetres.

The whole point that everybody seems to have missed is that football is a game which should be subject to the same rules whether at PL level, Sunday league or U12s school football. One referee, one set of rules, one game. If the EPL needs to have four officials, plus two earning some easy money...

Exactly - PGMOL have made a completely perverse interpretation of 'clear and obvious'. If a toenail (or any other irrelevant body part of your choice) appears to be a clearly and obviously a couple of millimetres off side after a minute or two looking at stills and slow-mos, and drawing...

If only we could go back and re-write the script that specifies 'clear and obvious' - although it's clear and obvious to most of us what that should mean, the PGMOL have taken a perverse interpretation of it. If only the rule-makers had said 'glaringly obvious', or made it clear that it was only...