FIFA president Gianni Infantino has leapt to the defence of VAR amid claims the technology is damaging the game. Players, coaches and pundits have criticised VAR, with many feeling it has gone far beyond its original stated purpose of correcting ‘clear and obvious’ errors.
Match of the Day presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker tweeted in October that it was “a mind-numbingly life-sapping experience” waiting for VAR “to quash our enjoyment” when ruling out goals for the most marginal of offsides and debatable handballs.
Infantino said often the problem was how the technology was implemented, rather than the technology itself. “I think that VAR is helping football, it’s certainly not damaging football,” he said. “We have to
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