Tag: Carlos Bacigalupe

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Merseyside football and the slave trade by David Kennedy.

The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee, VAR, in international football/soccer, was met with skepticism, to put it mildly. The whole thing is explained, dubiously justified, and even openly propagated in The Use of Video Technologies in Refereeing Football and Other Sports, edited by Manuel Armenteros, Anto J. Benitez & Miguel Ángel Betancor (Routledge). Our reviewer, media and technology researcher Marcio Telles, brings eminent clarity into this entangled issue.