I believe the problem with VAR is that it STILL places the ultimate decision on the shoulders of one person and one person, under serious pressure will regularly make mistakes.

I actually think you would be better off having eleven lower league referees all being fed footage in confined booths where they are given ten seconds to make a call on what they are seeing. It takes the pressure off because it comes down to a vote, it speeds the process because they have only a short time to make a call and I guarantee eleven lower league refs will vote out the correct decision far more regularly than one ‘elite’ ref who’s permanently shitting himself.

It’s pretty simple stats and a bit of behavioural science in the end. I’m not sure why they have all this tech and still place all the decision making on one critical point of failure.

If the majority in an eleven man panel can’t make the right call it was probably too close to really matter that much.

Most people support a team because of the social connections with friends or family. In fact it’s so important, I think many people would rather lose together than win alone.

If you have no one around you who supports the same team as you and you can’t ever get to games (and even if you did you’d be on your own) it’s just not the same.

So I say support the team that brings you the most joy.