I Can't Stop Thinking About Var - Forward by Jonathan Wilson

In 2019, the English Premier League introduced the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), a way of using technology to review and correct the on-field referee-s decisions. It-s been a disaster: players hate it, managers hate it, pundits line up to pour scorn on its decisions, and fans have coined the chant -it-s not football any more- to describe its effect on the game. Almost every other sport in the world has managed to integrate technology into its decision-making process. Why is football failing so badly? Is it a special case, or have the game-s authorities got something wrong? And what does the controversy about VAR tell us about the nature of authority, rationality and technology in the 21st century?