It seems not a week goes by without a manager or former player loudly complaining about VAR, insisting either ‘the game’s gone’ due to a soft penalty or that technology is not being used enough to clamp down on incidents. Like Goldilocks and her porridge, VAR is either too hot or too cold, never quite just warm enough to be palatable to everyone.
The rules of football were first codified in 1863 and it is safe to say that an
