VAR sytem

NFL style challenges are the way forward. Banks of monitors by the sideline for the coaches to look at, 60 seconds to challenge any decision you want (if you're out of time, tough), if you lose a challenge, you lose a sub, if you've no subs left, tough luck; if you're right, you keep the challenge/sub. You could maybe get one extra challenge a match, in that the first wrong one doesn't cost you a sub.

It would make managers more careful about complaining about bad decisions; however, it would require some very quick tv crews to get replays on the monitors so they could make decisions quickly, inside the 60 seconds required. A buzzer goes off in the ref's ear if a challenge is made and the review takes place at the next stoppage in play.

Defeats the whole purpose. This is a refereeing tool, not for teams to influence and exploit as and when it suits them. They have more than enough opportunities to do so in a game as it is. 

The VAR must completely independent. The aim of it is to get correct decisions. If it takes less than 60 seconds, great. If it takes 6 minutes, fine. The amount of time it takes is not important, it's the accuracy of the decision that is important, and it takes as long as it takes. 

Goalkeepers are told that they must stay on their line until kicks are taken. It's been that way since Day 1. If they go walkies, I'm sure they are aware of the possible consequences. Now VAR is here, the rules of our sport are finally being enforced, and justice is being done. Handballs are punished. Dives are punished. Shirt pulls are punished. Walking keepers are punished.  Offsides are spotted. All goals and major decisions are provisional until cleared by VAR. That's the way it will be and should be, from now on, so that teams don't get luck, and other teams are not robbed by incompetence.

Correct decisions are great for football. Incorrect decisions wreck the game. 

The Brazil penalty incident you mention was a goal kick, as the ball had gone out of play. Correct decision. The Spain incident was offside. Correct decision. 

A game of football lasts the best part of 2 hours. So we have the time to take a couple of minutes, a few if necessary, to get a major decision right. There's no time limit. Before then, cheats could get away with stuff, at most they would later get a token ban which some of them would even welcome, and did nothing to deter them the next time. Now they get punished on the spot, as they should. 

What at first looks a simple decision to us with all our slow no and super slow mo replays available, often looks very different pitchside. Thankfully, the ref can make a major decision fully informed of all the facts, instead of guesswork as was the case before. 

 

He thinks it’s tennis and the ball is either in or out! 

The handball decisions have nothing to do with VAR. 

VAR is the best thing to happen to football in the last 20 years. It's still in its infancy but it's giving the correct outcome to almost every decision.