I watched the Inter – Borussia MG game live, and there was some surprise that Mr Kuipers had failed to spot the penalty, but these things happen, and VAR was doing its job. VAR arguably did its job less well in determining that Borussia's second goal was not offside, a process that took no less than four minutes. As I understand it, there were two problems: the first was that there were two questions to answer, since the issue offside arose only arose if a certain member of the Borussia team played the ball on its way through to the goal scorer, something that was not evident in real time. The second was that having answered the first question, VAR seemed unable to find an image that the showed the two players involved from an angle that made it possible to decide whether the goal scorer was indeed offside at the relevant moment. Perhaps in the circumstances benefit of the doubt could have been given to the attacking team rather more promptly.