Time to put outrage in picture

Another turbulent week, yet there’s a sense too we are on the cusp of a great breakthrough, of landmark progress. There is a mood for change.

Time to put outrage in picture

With VAR installed, and Kelechi Iheanacho awarded a goal by the machines, we must seize the moment. We cannot afford to take a step back now in the drive for a utopia of engineered fairness and accountability.

We cannot settle for penalty box justice. Offside might be sorted, but we must demand full transparency away from the field of play too. We urgently need to see every single thing from all angles. We cannot waste this momentum in the war on ‘controvassy’.

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