JOHN LYONS reports on the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system at the Confederations Cup – and its future…

JOHN LYONS

Difference of opinion: Chile’s Eduardo Vargas, centre, and Arturo Vidal, right, make their case

FOOTBALL held back from using technology to help make decisions for a long time – after watching the Confederations Cup we know why.
For while goal-line technology in recent years in the Premier League has been a smooth operation, the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in Russia was, to put it kindly, a bit of a mess.
The idea of...