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I think it was Michael Cox of Zonal Marking and The Athletic who pointed out that what football fans want from the rules of the game is impossible to deliver.
Fans want consistency, but they also want refs to apply common sense. But what is common sense if it doesn't involve occasionally bypassing the rules, thereby making the application of the rules inconsistent?
This conundrum is what has led to VAR in the first place, and what VAR has succeeded with, even though it feels utterly shit to be on the end of some of these decisions, is how it's highlighted once and for all how some of the laws of the game are totally unfit for purpose in the minds of most fans.
For what it's worth I hope football settles on a challenge system for VAR sooner rather than later. It really feels like the only logical way forward.
Fans want consistency, but they also want refs to apply common sense. But what is common sense if it doesn't involve occasionally bypassing the rules, thereby making the application of the rules inconsistent?
This conundrum is what has led to VAR in the first place, and what VAR has succeeded with, even though it feels utterly shit to be on the end of some of these decisions, is how it's highlighted once and for all how some of the laws of the game are totally unfit for purpose in the minds of most fans.
For what it's worth I hope football settles on a challenge system for VAR sooner rather than later. It really feels like the only logical way forward.
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