VAR: What’s wrong and how to fix it

“Shortly after the International Football Association Board (IFAB) annual general meeting in Cardiff last weekend, its technical director, David Elleray, made an announcement. … It felt like football’s existential question, and it will require significant time to address — two years, according to Elleray. Yet given the divisiveness that VAR has stoked since it was first greenlit at IFAB’s conference in 2016, even that timeframe might be optimistic. Elleray and Pierluigi Collina, who is a colleague of Elleray’s at IFAB and chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, were united in the view that VAR has improved football, but that it still has deep imperfections, hence the need for a review. …”
NY Times/The Athletic

Banners at Augsburg decrying VAR