Literally everything about VAR needs to be reframed. If you think the Iran pen wasn't a pen, the ref got it wrong not VAR. He had a chance to review and called it that way. If you think it was a pen (not many do), VAR helped the ref get it right. Not a "VAR assisted goal", FFS.
It ⚽️ is ⚽️ just ⚽️ a ⚽️ video ⚽️ replay. Not "technology". A replay. Like your Mum and Dad had on Betamax in the 1980s. He watched it then made a call and got it right or wrong depending on your view. Like refs have always made calls, and got them right or wrong.
Did refs get most things right before VAR? Yes in my view. Was there an occasional clanger like Henry's handball against Ireland? Also yes. If we have video replays by the side of the field, should the refs have the ability to quickly watch it and be sure? Surely, yes.
So now we're down to details. How quickly can it happen? Does it disrupt the game? Have you ever seen stats about how much of a game the ball is out of play for? What about players pretending to be injured. This isn't much disruption to get such huge decisions right (or wrong).
It isn't perfect and there needs to be better communication particularly for people at the stadium (although, sacrilege to say it, the priority now will be TV audiences - economic reality) but ⚽️ no ⚽️ new ⚽️ product ⚽️ ever ⚽️ is ⚽️ perfect ⚽️ straight ⚽️ away.
Football has never stayed the same - it has always evolved. Like languages, if we freeze something in time it will die. Products are never perfect to start with. The refs make the decisions. It isn't 'chaos' and it isn't 'ruining games'. Nor is it perfect. Things rarely are.
