Episode 2754: VAR… What Is It Good For? (a recurring series)

The fastest current player in the Premier League, De Zerbi De Stroyed at Villa, the psychology of charity penalties… just some of the things we talk about today before moving on to the main event of Referees and their Video Review helpers.

Miguel Delaney and Dion Fanning join us to pick through the entrails of the post-Spurs v Liverpool carnage.

Is this the biggest VAR mess yet? Does it have the potential to grow from an embarrassment into a genuine scandal? Are there solutions that can improve the current situation? Or – since VAR clearly doesn’t work – is the obvious fix not just to… bin it altogether?

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