When everything is seen

Video refereeing (VAR) improves decisions in football. It does not please everyone and sometimes no one, but it helps to make the game fairer. It may be necessary to reformulate the powers, but what is also questionable is that it is the referees who direct the matches who ultimately judge their colleagues from the VAR table. No suspicions, but human nature is what it is. It is difficult for someone in a match to discredit a referee and then have to judge him. It is even understandable that they do not want to hurt each other, but it would be more impartial if there were a group of former professional referees, who ended up being VAR specialists, without having anything to do with those who whistle.

When everything is visible, distance seems better than proximity. Before, everything depended on the decision of a referee (supported by the linesmen who were under his orders) and the Monday morning video indicated whether there was a mistake or a success. And even then there were discussions. Now everything is immediate. Life is online and so is football. And everything is visible. There is almost nothing that does not reach everyone's eye seconds after it happens.

The video refereeing room should be for retired referees rather than for those who are still active

There are those who distrust everything. From whether the frame was taken milliseconds before or after the ball was hit, to whether the lines were set with the latest technology or were drawn by hand. Should the VAR be limited or should it be more open? It should be there for the decisive things, for things that can change a result, for obvious injustices, not for each and every action that occurs in the match. That would kill football. It should be there for the big things and the professionals who judge the actions are better off not having to be judged later by the same referees.

VAR came about so that there would be no brutal injustices, such as a team qualifying for the World Cup thanks to a goal scored with a handball. Technology allows us, with the hawk's eye, to know perfectly well whether the ball has crossed the goal line or not and there are still many decisions, however, that are down to interpretation, but VAR allows a few more seconds to make the decision with the help of more eyes.

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They also make mistakes. It is also human. But football improves when everything is seen. There are clubs that prefer the bygone eras when a single referee decided, but that is anachronistic today. The VAR must also participate in the cycles of continuous improvement, in terms of powers and in the professionals who must manage it. There were those who said that referees would have less pressure with video refereeing. It is possible, but they have many more absurd statements.