Video review came to soccer promising to overturn clear and obvious errors. It was a safety net for referees, and that, we were told, was the extent of its domain. Video assistants would not re-referee the game; VAR was, in theory, a new-age mechanism to undo controversy and better the sport.
But half a decade later, as West Ham furiously alleged on Saturday, it is not doing any of that.
Or, rather, it is doing far too much. VAR’s biggest fault has been overstepping its bounds, as it did at…
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