Professional football is a contract between super-talented players and the people who pay them. Traditionally it was the locally generated fanbase that paid their wages. In more recent times it has been the television viewer that did so, and VAR was brought in to sate that television viewer. I think we are rapidly moving into another separate era in which the fundamental contract of football is not between player and crowd, nor between player and TV viewer, but between player and Saudi Arabia, or player and City Football Group, or player and US venture capital. In that context, why do you need VAR? Data analysts will tell you that refereeing decisions make no difference to the outcome of a season, and the VAR process only reflects a culture of objective human scrutiny that these organisations reject. It will go and be replaced by sensors, robots and automation.