A damp squib as video assistant referee controversy stays away

You wait 130 years for video technology in football and then,with pundits poised and the world watching, nobody could decide if it had been used or not!

Brighton’s Third Round FA Cup tie against Crystal Palace at the Amex was the first competitive game in Britain ever to feature a video assistant referee (VAR), even though the Football League has been around since 1888 and the technology to help referees available for quite some time, too.