'When it comes to football, it turns out that there is nothing crazier than the truth,' wrote TVsCarlKinsella during the World Cup. After last night's VAR drama, we're going to do the necessary and take another look at it...
Referees trying to get everything right throughout a game of football, whether or not they're assisted by technology, is like a man covered in butter trying to stay atop a rodeo horse. Profoundly entertaining, probably impossible, and often catastrophic.Didi Hamann has long argued that VAR would take the emotion, that instant emotional gratification of a goal or a sending off or an awarded penalty, out of the game.
I will always love Dietmar Hamann, but he's wrong about this. The emotion you feel when you've given away a penalty is surely nothing compared to the explosive fury you feel when you foul a guy in a box, think you've gotten away with it, then learn you've conceded a penalty a full minute later when you thought the whole world had moved on and the ball is up the other end of the pitch. The burst of adrenaline, the relief, and then the stab in the back. That's real agony.
Liam Brady needs to keep being Liam Brady. He should keep being Liam Brady so that the auld lads can cling to him and young lads can laugh at him and so that we never, ever come to a consensus on how football should be played, or watched, or even what the rules of the sport should actually be. Ian Wright can think VAR is mental. Gary Lineker can be all for it. None of it matters. What matters is that for 90+ minutes out on that field, none of us know what's going to happen next.
It's a concern that could be addressed simply by increasing transparency in the decision-making process. International rugby isn't scared of fans hearing refereeing officials communicate. Football shouldn't have anything to hide either.
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