{"id":759481,"date":"2026-06-25T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:06:11","slug":"if-var-is-supposed-to-help-why-do-so-many-football-fans-hate-it-video-video-assistant-referees-vars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759481\/","title":{"rendered":"If VAR is supposed to help, why do so many football fans hate it? \u2013 video | Video assistant referees (VARs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video assistant referees, or VAR, are highly trained match officials who are supposed to assist the on-field refereeing team with decisions by watching the game from a box full of monitors somewhere. So why does something that is supposed to help end erroneous decisions on the football pitch become so hated by so many? Guardian Australia&#8217;s Matilda Boseley investigates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video assistant referees, or VAR, are highly trained match officials who are supposed to assist the on-field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-759481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}