{"id":81226,"date":"2019-02-21T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/21\/var-brings-drama-it-enhanced-the-occasion-at-schalke\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:15:23","slug":"var-brings-drama-it-enhanced-the-occasion-at-schalke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=81226","title":{"rendered":"VAR brings drama \u2013 it enhanced the occasion at Schalke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City\u2019s experience showed VAR is imperfect and will not end debates but also demonstrated its beautyVAR: farce or fantastic fillip for football? Thirty-five minutes into Manchester City\u2019s breathless 3-2 win at Schalke came an incident that was a gift for those who view the system as a farrago waiting to happen.When Daniel Caligiuri\u2019s shot hit Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi\u2019s right arm the technology kicked in. Except, not at first, as the pitch-side monitors failed to work. This caused a delay of three minutes before studio-based officials finally informed the referee, Carlos del Cerro Grande, a penalty should be awarded. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/feb\/21\/var-drama-schalke-manchester-city-debates-enhanced-experience\" target=\"_blank\">VAR brings drama \u2013 it enhanced the occasion at Schalke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City\u2019s experience showed VAR is imperfect and will not end debates but also demonstrated its beautyVAR: farce or fantastic fillip for football? Thirty-five minutes into Manchester City\u2019s breathless 3-2 win at Schalke came an incident that was a gift for those who view the system as a farrago waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}