[Devongone]

The point I'm trying to make is that if the player being fouled doesn't DO SOMETHING to make VAR be used the ref' will wave play on or simply let the game continue. So the fouled player has to hit the deck whether it is necessary or not ...... he can't continue with his effort to score and hope the ref' will give the penalty anyway. VAR demands simulation, the forward has to dramatise the incident. You'll never again see a Cyrille Regis going through with the centre half still hanging on to his shirt as the ball hits the back of the net.

Every moment players and the ball are in the penalty area is a penalty / no penalty decision. If the VAR could examine all last Saturday's games I wonder how many corners there were at which NO FOULS were taking place. I'm betting not many. It's not VAR's fault that the game doesn't know what it is doing.