I have to say, I do not like the VAR. I am not even sure it’s more accurate, but I am sure that it absolutely kills soccer as a spectator sport. It’s not been pleasant in these World Cup games, but I was watching a Copa game between Ecador and Uruguay where they used it on a foul. They stopped the game for 10—15 minutes to change a card from yellow to red. It completely killed my interest in the game and I fast forwarded the rest of the way.
The best part of soccer has always been the continuity and the lack of timeouts/commercials, this new policy completely wrecks the flow of the game. Hawkeye was a good thing to add, but the VAR has not moved the game forward at all. In fact VAR would not prevent the most egregious corruption in football anyway.
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