• Colombia's miracle escape from soccer's red-card ejection rule
    by Paul Gardner on Jun 29, 7:37 PM
    A good deal of attention has been focused on the functioning of the VAR system during this World Cup. Rightly so, for it represents a revolution in soccer thinking
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  • Another team to be taken seriously: England
    by Paul Gardner on Jun 27, 2:35 PM
    Last week I made a point: that it was time for the soccer world to take Mexico seriously. And now we have another team that merits the same attention: England.
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  • Time for world soccer -- especially the USA -- to start taking Mexico seriously
    by Paul Gardner on Jun 18, 8:56 PM
    The Mexicans have been very, very patient. Far too patient, I think, in trying to establish their right to belong up there with the top soccer countries.
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  • VAR and the insidious spread of technology
    by Paul Gardner on Jun 13, 9:03 PM
    There are problems with the VAR system that FIFA has decided to introduce at the World Cup. That decision itself is quite likely the biggest of the problems.
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  • Should referee calls be swayed by player reputations?
    by Paul Gardner on Jun 7, 12:59 AM
    For some decades now, I have been asking referees -- at all levels -- a certain question. At least one hundred referees, I'd say, have given me an answer to this question:
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