When VAR was announced, many supporters jumped for joy at the potential correction of their game, Everton fans included. After all, having been on the end of so many farcical refereeing decisions over the years, it was believed that this technology would right those wrongs. One outstanding example is Duncan Ferguson’s 2005 header against Villarreal, which was bizarrely ruled out by Pierluigi Collina. VAR would have overruled that. Or so we thought. If anything, this new invention has clouded the game’s rules more than ever, and now the Premier League is riddled with hilariously bad refereeing …
