VAR IS INEVITABLE

“THERE HAVE EVEN BEEN CALLS IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE TO SCRAP VAR ALTOGETHER, WHICH IS SIMPLY IMPLAUSIBLE.”

any years ago, I wrote that if referees were replaced by robots, Italian football fans would still complain they had been programmed by someone who favoured Juventus. Now we have VAR and, as expected, it has just removed the excuse of not seeing the incident properly and replaced it with more paranoia. What I did not necessarily see coming was just how much the English fans would