VAR.
Without fail, every single week, social media is filled with football fans complaining about VAR.
And with good reason.
In the Premier League the average delay in play due to a review is reported as being 70 seconds which kills the joy of the moment, and worse the decision is all too frequently incorrect.
Which understandably has led to calls for the system to be scrapped.
And that would be a shame.
I say so because the improved VAR technology deployed at Euro 2024, in particular the Adidas “Fussballliebe” ball, has reduced the review time by almost 2/3s taking just 25 seconds, and so far appears to be far more accurate.
And surely this short delay is better than the anger felt by a poor human decision which many fans forget plagued the game up until VAR was introduced at the 2018 World Cup – and might the next iteration reduce the review time to 15 seconds, or 10, or 5?
Perhaps the biggest lesson is that it often takes time to get things right.
In these impatient times how often is an initiative scrapped because it wasn’t perfect from the get go?
Thankfully, many examples from Eddison to Dyson, highlight that improvement by iteration, often including trial and error, is the necessary path to get the right result.
Just imagine if VAR had been given up – might we have had “Hand of God 2”?
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