We may have gone too far. VAR a global Pandemic
‘’We may have gone too far . VAR a global Pandemic.’’ By Steven Kelly Just like with technology football has moved on with the times. VAR appeared at first in football for the 2018 world cup in Russia. Initially supporters and pundits worldwide wanted the technology to get rid of poor decisions being made at matches. One example for Irish fans was the Thierry Henry handball during the World cup playoff tie in Paris back in November 2009. Former Irish international and soccer pundit Eamonn Dunphy, a slightly controversial and colourful figure at the best of times, called for ‘’ some sort of technology to be brought into world football, following the Henry controversy’’. He also believed at the time that other sports all had decent technology to stop errors. Speaking in 2015 Dunphy said ‘’what all the other sports have demonstrated is that you can have this technology, it can deliver justice instantaneously and the longer cheating becomes embedded in the culture ...