Soccer opinion: VAR on trial - Should football maintain faith or scrap it for good?

When video assistant referees were introduced to football, they were meant to represent progress, a step toward fairness and accuracy in a sport long defined by human error.

VAR promised to correct the infamous injustices of the past, from Thierry Henry’s handball in 2009 to Frank Lampard’s ghost goal in 2010.

The technology was sold as the answer to decades of controversy. Yet over five years after its introduction to the Premier League - fans, players and managers remain divided.

Here, Sports News Blitz writer Ben Phillips looks into arguments for and against the continuation of the VAR project.