What’s the point of VAR? Sadio Mane saves Mohamed Salah as Liverpool win again and Chris Wilder for Arsenal, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich

Firstly, has whoever signed off the big order for VAR pitchside monitors for the Premier League kept the receipt? And secondly, how little do they pay everyone other than Gary Lineker on Match of the Day if Wrighty is going to have to go and eat kangaroo testicles to top up his earnings?

A third thought also popped into my head, again VAR related – rather than have fellow referees manning the video, why not have an impartial group of ex-pros or something? You know, like they do in those fancy spot-the-ball competitions and things like that?

After all, surely it is the utter inadequacy of the referees that have meant we need VAR in the first place – and clearly, judging by the penalty given at Vicarage Road, giving them a chance to review it 100 times on video isn’t improving the decision making. And as for the goings-on at Goodison Park, well we will come on to them.

I thought the whole point of VAR is for the referee to get some guidance, for the video assistant to go, ‘fella, I think you might just want to go and have a look at that one again’ so that the referee on the pitch does still get the final say on what is happening on his field of play?

What if Anthony Taylor then looked back at the penalty given against Jorginho after the game and still felt his on-field call was correct? How much does he really trust Mike Dean to be able to give a correct decision even with numerous replays? I mean, it’s Mike Dean.

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