Consequences?

The excuse used for Son’s red card by the PGMOL is that it was a result of his tackle that Gomes disclocated his ankle.

They haven’t even looked at the fact that his studs caught in the turf AFTER the tackle forcing his leg over awkwardly.

This could have happened at any time even when he was running and turning, to blame Son and say it was a consequence of the tackle is trying to cover the a*se of a poor official.
What happens next? Someone makes a tackle legitimately and 5 minutes later the other player collapses in agony, and has to be carried off. Does the referee then go back and send the tackler off

The people who govern football in the main have never played the game, they are making decisions based on little knowledge or experience.

Example: the word intent has now been removed from the laws of the game.
When I refereed, I relied on my ability to recognise “intent" before making a decision that could result in a sending off. Now we are guessing by making “as a consequence" the rule of thumb

As for VARCICAL, it is now turning into referees being outrefereed by non match officials.

In my opinion, VAR should only be used in situations where a goal is scored and the referee should control everything else.

I also would suggest that we learn from other sports like rugby and tennis.

In rugby everyone from the players through to the fans can see and hear what is going on when VAR is being used. In tennis, players have 3 challenges allowed, if we only made VAR come into play on these challenges then it would simplify things for everyone.

Regarding showing VAR replays on the big screens, it would of course mean Anfield and Old Trafford would need to invest and install them