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POWER MUST GO TO MAN IN BLACK

DOES VAR stand for Video Assistant Referee? Or Video Assisted Ridicule? The comedy capers at the Confederations Cup have been an embarrassment for FIFA’s latest invention.
Mistaken identity, a failure to award penalties, yellow cards for blatant assaults – these weren’t teething problems, they were root canal surgery.
So should we abandon in-game replays? Not entirely, but the format must change.
Right now, the man in black can either accept the decision of the VAR ref or review it himself.
But nobody wants to see referees drawing imaginary TV screens and trotting off to p...

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