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RSS feedArgentina beat Egypt 3–2 in a comeback that will lead the highlights. It shouldn't. The story is two VAR calls, 45 minutes apart, same officials, same offence — a build-up foul — decided in exactly opposite directions. Both fell to the same team.
Read article →Paraguay 0–1 France had a penalty given, an elbow waved away, and a penalty appeal turned down — and by our analysis all three were correct. Yet the game was still badly refereed. Because refereeing has two axes, and VAR only touches one.
Read article →Germany went out playing football the honest way. The teams still standing are, on average, better at gaming the referee. But the answer isn't for everyone to get more cynical — it's to build a system where cynicism stops working. The dark arts are a symptom; discretion is the disease.
Read article →Germany vs Paraguay exposed VAR's true weakness: not accuracy, but which incidents it chooses to scrutinise. Minutes spent disallowing one goal, zero curiosity about two clearer penalties. SAOT works — the discretionary layer is the problem.
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