Unironically, if you had some kind of gamified crowdsourced VAR, it could probably work.
After each game, an oversight committee decides on the “correct” decision for each incident, and Fan-VARs who voted the correct way earn points, those who didn’t lose points. More points = get to be involved in higher prestige games, plus bigger lotteries, with £10’000 draws done by computer during half-time for big matches, and the winning Fan-VAR gets his name and photo (and points tally) on the Sky Sports feed.
I mean, obviously it’s a terrible dystopia, but I bet it would lead to better results than the present setup.
Unironically, if you had some kind of gamified crowdsourced VAR, it could probably work.
After each game, an oversight committee decides on the “correct” decision for each incident, and Fan-VARs who voted the correct way earn points, those who didn’t lose points. More points = get to be involved in higher prestige games, plus bigger lotteries, with £10’000 draws done by computer during half-time for big matches, and the winning Fan-VAR gets his name and photo (and points tally) on the Sky Sports feed.
I mean, obviously it’s a terrible dystopia, but I bet it would lead to better results than the present setup.