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Mikel Arteta was vociferous, righteous and right; VAR is anti-football and anti-humanity

Mikel Arteta’s outburst at the VAR decision which saw Arsenal lose against Newcastle was spectacular. Maybe he should stop dying his hair black like an ageing heavy metaller and go grey to prove how VAR is making him old before our eyes.

His criticism of the decision was vociferous, righteous and right. Yes, it’s the same old same old. How many times this has to be said beggars belief. But apparently it’s not been said enough yet.

“Embarrassing, it’s an absolute disgrace, that’s what it is: a disgrace. There’s so much at stake, we’ve put in so many hours to compete at the highest level and you cannot imagine the amount of messages we’ve had saying this cannot continue.

“It’s embarrassing. It’s not acceptable, there’s too much at stake. I don’t want to be in the hands of these people. I don’t know how to feel. I’m wasting my time, we are wasting our time.”

It surely needs all the top managers to echo these words to try and get the appalling system suspended. Of course, Arteta would have been equally discontent if a non-VAR refereed game had been refereed similarly, which is not that unlikely. The difference is he wouldn’t have been promised a new error-free system which would solve contentious decisions. But he has, it hasn’t, and he’s rightly furious about the introduction of a system that doesn’t do what it says on the tin and has made referees worse.

As it is, he’s been promised things will be correctly called only to see them incorrectly called. That is much, much worse. The anger, I think, burning inside Arteta, is that VAR is not only repeating the errors of the non-VAR world after being brought in to prevent that happening but also created an added layer of mistakes.

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If nothing else, the whole process is a constantly interesting lesson in the human psyche. Promise football something which it is not within its power to deliver and football gets very angry. Failing to deliver the promise to outlaw the things that have annoyed them in the past, is a far worse situation than not trying at all and just telling them all to accept mistakes will be made.

You can argue that is logically inconsistent, but who said football was ever based on logic and not emotion?