In general, I agree with the arguments put forward by
@daneoni, but there are a few comments - remarks - I wish to add both to what he has written, and also, to the points made by
@Apple fanboy.
@Apple fanboy: That ship has sailed - and not just on account of the technology: In the 1960s, 70s, 80s, yes, broadly speaking, - leaving aside the issue of once an advance - technological or otherwise, has been made, it is impossible not to pretend that it exists - I could have been - would have been - in agreement with you.
Decisions made by match officials were not challenged - even if erroneous - and nobody threatened to kill a referee (apart from mutters in the pub, post match, over a pint or two) if a decision was disputed.
However, and however: One of the things I dislike most about the current game - and I am appalled to admit that Arsenal are among the worst offenders with this egregious behaviour when seeking excuses to blame for poor performances (the ref, the ball, the pitch....) - is this blaming of match officials, this conduct on the part of aggrieved teams of challenging and surrounding referees - threatening them - bullying them, towering over them en masse and shouting at them, when a decision does not go your way.
In the current world - environment - of football - the financial rewards of success are so great, - while the price of failure is so costly - and the margins (sometimes) are so unimaginably narrow between success and failure, that it is in the interests of teams to bully, threaten, shout at, match officials and referees, to attempt to squeeze out anything which may serve to swing a result their way.
My chief concern is that - in the absence of being able to cite something supposedly technologically objective - such as VAR - when defending a position, or stance, that the bodies (both national and supranational/international, FA, FIFA, etc) that exist to regulate football will not act sufficiently robustly, or strongly, in support of match officials, or referees, when threatened, if decisions are made against powerful, popular, well-resourced teams that are upset by decisions that go against them.
Human error - unfortunately - is an insufficient defence in a world where football players earn weekly a salary that exceeds what the Prime Minister can hope to earn in a year. And match officials - unfortunately - earn nothing remotely approaching these mad numbers, nothing that can justify their having to face such insults, such threats, such appalling behaviour.
A world where social media can whip up visceral hatred over a matter of hours. A world where - most unfortunately - one must question the bona fides of some of those who run international competitions, as I fear that match officials may not receive sufficient protection from the consequences of decisions that some may disagree with.
My own personal view is that if VAR is to be suspended, teams - and that means both players and managers - should be hit with stratospheric fines (numbering - at the very least - millions of pounds/euros per week) if they act - behave - in any disgusting or disgraceful way - towards match officials, such as referees, and their fellow officials.
