To reiterate and to develop further, it was interesting to envelop Mike Dean’s assessment of a Marcus Rashford goal as he broke the Liverpool back line to score. According to Dean, once Rashford’s teammate makes the pass then the VAR lines are laid. The Manero add-on, once the pass is made determines whether the player is onside or offside on delivery of the pass, Rashford is clearly offside ahead of the defender so the timing of the pass does not matter, the line depicts Rashford’s forward movement. This is what the naked eye shows, Dean refers to this as the kick point, a fancy Dan then, translates into mumbo jumbo, VAR rhetoric quote “First a one pixel to the last defender, then another one pixel line to the attacker”. Follow that gist? In laymen’s terms the pixel is an illumination on a screen display, forms an image, into question, a false image? Technology can does go missing in action. The system is locked into the pixel rhyme and rhythm, the decision is then made, high tech stuff if you’re a believer, all factual says Dean.

Let’s cut to the chase, Manero, the VAR system is not a smoothly running operation which brings the word factual into the debate, to move the image to suggest at different angles still keeps Rashford offside, but VAR disputes the logic, no surprise there then. More technology is to be added for the Qatar World Cup powered by artificial intelligence, perhaps Star Wars’ R2D2 to provide 3D images to circulate the player’s positions on the pitch, fly on that wing and a prayer.

Mike Dean, now a VAR operative, prefers to sit in a glass caged portacabin making dodgy decisions as opposed to spending one’s Saturday afternoons at Prenton Park, the home of Tranmere Rovers. Dean’s team in a glass sponsored s—thouse, pull the chain on that, Dean and the VAR system, all flushed out.

Take two and another mind mushing contentious decision and into highlight mode on the Manero road into the Brighton and Hove Albion match v Tottenham Hotspurs matchday.