Irish Examiner view: Time to blow the final whistle on Var

Soccer authorities should show the red card to video-assisted refereeing, an intrusion that stops the flow of games 

Japan's players were happy to celebrate Ao Tanaka's second goal against Spain in their World Cup game on Thursday but the Var process is turning football into a video game. Picture: Nick Potts/PA

A famous archbishop once shared the view that “all technology is the Devil’s work”. True, it was the bishop of Durham, the prelate who described the resurrection as a “conjuring trick with bones” bringing down, some say, God’s wrath three days later in the form of the lightning bolt which devastated York Minster. 

But he could have been prophesying the arrival of Var when he made his comment.