VAR is football’s Frankenstein Monster: benign and passive on being aroused for the World Cup finals in 2018 but now outgrowing its welcome and bursting its chains. No one quite knows how to control it.
Video assistance has also provided one more stick with which referees can be flayed in public by social-media-empowered managers, players, media and fans.
No chance that FIFA – whether president Gianni Infantino or referee bosses Pierluigi Collina and Massimo Busacca – would admit to the horse having bolted and left them only with the empty reins. Perish the thought; problems at league level are nothing to do with FIFA or the IFAB lawmakers, merely a matter of occasional misunderstanding
