Growing anger over the use of video technology in football has been kicked up a notch further by high-profile incidents in recent matches. Since being introduced into English football in 2019, the use ...

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The symbol of all that is wrong with football. Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner ...

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the decision-makers in charge of football’s direction are out of touch with what fans truly think. The comments from key figures like Howard Webb, Tony Scholes ...

UEFA is determined to persuade the likes of the Premier League, LaLiga and Serie A to adopt a more light-touch approach to VAR.

The debate over VAR has intensified once again after Fulham’s disallowed goal against Chelsea and Burnley’s late defeat to Manchester United. Josh King thought he had given Fulham the lead at Stamford ...

New research by the University of Bath has used motion capture technology to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football. The study suggests that VAR is useful for ...

Football’s use of video technology is once again under scrutiny as the sport’s governing bodies prepare to examine how VAR should function in the future. According to Philip Buckingham’s reporting in ...

The English football season is only a few weeks old, yet it would surely already prove difficult for last weekend to be topped in the controversy stakes. In the men’s game, Liverpool were left fuming ...