SHORTLISTED IN THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Is it football any more?Fascinating and persuasive The HeraldEveryone involved in the VAR controversy should read this short, beautifullywritten book and think again Sir Michael BarberIn 2019, the English Premier League introduced the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), a way of using technology to review and correct the onfield referees decisions. Its been a disaster players hate it, managers hate it, pundits line up to pour scorn on its decisions, and fans have coined the chant its 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 decisionmaking process. Why is football failing so badly? Is it a special case, or have the games 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?

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