{"id":6226,"date":"2023-09-03T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2023-09-03T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:12:18","slug":"what-is-the-point-of-var","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6226","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Point of VAR?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until this season hadn&#8217;t worried about <strong>VAR<\/strong> decisions in football. There is a perception it favours the big teams and certainly one or two decisions in recent weeks certainly have gone that way. I was at a raucous <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Kenilworth Road<\/strong> <\/span>on Friday watching the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mighty Hatters<\/span><\/strong> lose to <strong>West Ham<\/strong> &#8211; there was a blatant handball near the end of the game which wasn&#8217;t picked up. However. if you give away soft goals and miss chances you deserve to lose! On to the next game!<\/p>\n<p>Now beginning to think about our cricket final on Tuesday the weather looks good for it which will be a relief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until this season hadn&#8217;t worried about VAR decisions in football. There is a perception it favours the big teams and certainly one or two decisions in recent weeks certainly have gone that way. I was at a raucous Kenilworth Road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-1Cq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}