[Devongone]

It isn't actually the mechanics of VAR so much as the distant ref' looking at the Video and his strength of belief that his potential re-interpretation of an incident will not make him look like an idiot in front of a colleague (especially one as respected and long-serving as Jon Moss in his farewell game) if he sends that senior colleague to view it on-screen.

By its very nature VAR tempts the referee with a tight decision to give nothing in the belief that VAR will intervene if necessary. When VAR chooses to send him to take a more considered view he then almost always changes his decision.

VAR is prone to human frailty like refereeing at all non-VAR levels of football, it just reveals itself in different ways.

Toffolo was trying to win a penalty. That is neither cheating, nor morally wrong. He is simply trying to tempt in a defender to bring him down. If he hadn't gone down quite so dramatically then I'm guessing the penalty would have been awarded, but he made his fall a bigger incident than the actual contact which DID occur. So despite the contact he didn't get the penalty, ostensibly for bad acting ..........

VAR isn't like Hawkeye at tennis. It doesn't relay fact. It allows the opportunity to re-interpret fact, but if the human eye and decision-making process can get it wrong once there's every reason for it to repeat the error. After all a respected colleague has already made one decision by either commission, or omission.