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That call might well decide the league, but it absolutely cannot be treated differently from any other call any other matchweek. Timing and sequence of the matches shouldn't matter to something like this.

I don't know if a shot clock is the right answer or not. But when you make clear and obvious the standard of review, that brings the amount of time into the review process.

I don't think the the standard of review is necessarily right. I think it is too deferential. The idea that "well, he had a clear view and chose not to call it, so it can't be clear and obvious and VAR has to defer to something that is obviously wrong" is just stupid I think and defeats the purpose of the tool.

But I also recognize that VAR (1) can't take huge chunks of time to reviw calls and (2) VAR can't review everything.

Which is why I'm kind of leaning to a place I never, ever thought I'd be, which is just scrap it. It's not that it's not a good idea. It's a great idea but one that is just too difficult to implement remotely well. So the game's maybe probably better off without it in its current iteration.