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Yes, which is why I am directing that comment towards the numerous respondents whose suggestion for fixing VAR is to scrap it. I am delighted with the constructive comments of the many. It seems to boil down to two camps, one that favours giving the on field ref more powers and fewer issues for...

Yes, yes. Egregious errors by tits. Tweak the rules and train (or sack) the tits. When I was stopped by two young PCs for driving through an amber light "which means stop, same as a red light, so you drove through a red light" the solution to this tomfoolery was to train the tits, not bin...

The fact that on field refs normally go with the VAR ref's advice is because it is usually correct. It has nothing to do with power. The power is all on the pitch (aside from offsides, as I noted earlier; all other decisions are made by the on pitch refs). Most of what we moan about, VAR-wise is...

But what you describe is not what happens. The numptie says 'what do you think about this potential handball, O great on-field ref?', or simply decides that even though they think the referee's decision is wrong they won't ask them to check because the difference of opinion is not based on a...

This. VAR has obviously corrected more of the falsely called important decisions. I accept that some people would rather have a Brighton goal falsely chalked out than have an erroneous offside call corrected, in order to restore spontaneity. I say f*** THAT! Let's simply find ways of improving...

Whatever changes are made they will be designed to maximize the role and importance of the on-pitch ref. Therein lies the problem.