This article first appeared in the January 2026 edition of World Soccer Magazine Football is a complex game. An action taken ...

For several years now, VAR (Video Assistant Referee) has been a fixture in football. It still sparks debate, with some decisions remaining incomprehensible (like during the Monaco/PSG match last ...

We could do away with video reviews in sport if we framed the rules in terms of the officials’ perception of events rather than the events themselves. The sport of race walking did just that when ...