So near and yet so VAR

The announcement of Arsene Wenger’s imminent departure from Arsenal may have come as a surprise/shock/relief/inevitability – dilute according to taste – but I don’t mind saying that it came as a personal hammer blow to me, writes Liam Mackey.

Up to yesterday morning, there were the two of us, Frenchman and Irishman, shoulder to shoulder, two great minds as one, striding purposefully into a brave new world. And now, as my old mucker would doubtless put it with that distinctive Gallic shrug of his, there’s just moi.

Yes, I might well be the last person in whole world of football who still thinks that VAR is actually A Good Thing.