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Matt Maher: Grumbling was the birth of VAR – will it now be the death of it?

It’s not uncommon as a journalist to read something you wish you’d written yourself.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp

That was certainly the case this week when seeing a tweet (or X, if you prefer) from London-based football reporter Liam Twomey.

“Can’t think of a more fitting end for VAR than death by managerial whinging, given that managerial whinging is the main reason we got saddled with VAR in the first place,” he wrote.