The question no one has asked: what will now become of VAR?

One day, the coronavirus health crisis will be controlled and football will be able to be played again with relative normality. And we say relative, because at the start, for a few weeks or months, it seems that clubs will have to play their matches behind closed doors.

This historic shutdown of football all over the planet will provoke short term changes in the sport, which will make other new tools and accessories play 2nd fiddle.

The president of Italian refereeing, Marcello Nicchi, ventured on 'RAI2' that football could return without VAR at first. It is a tool that requires a lot of personnel for it to function correctly and that could violate the safety distances that will be required.

That's why Nicchi assured, that at the start football will return, but without the video refereeing. "Video refereeing is done in closed environments, with operators and specialists who you don't know who they may have been with until they get there. And of course, they risk not keeping a safe distance".

The boss of refereeing was clear: "I hope it doesn't happen, but it might be a problem that could come up". Thus, after all that it took for video refereeing to penetrate and establish itself in football, it seems that the definitive implementation of this tool will suffer a new (albeit momentary) setback.