This article first appeared in the January 2026 edition of World Soccer Magazine Football is a complex game. An action taken ...

A masked fan has unplugged the referee’s video review monitor at a German soccer game while the referee was deciding on a ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

An adjusted version of an off-field treatment rule that Lionel Messi complained about in 2024 has been adopted in time for ...

Would football be better without the video assistant referee (VAR) system? Premier League fans, managers and players got a reminder of what life was like without VAR in the FA Cup fourth round - and ...

The officiating in Newcastle's FA Cup fourth-round win at Aston Villa should have been the perfect argument for VAR, yet the technology, not in use until the next ...

Cast your mind back to last month's FA Cup third round. Remember how "refreshing" it was to watch elite football without VAR? That's what so many players, coaches, fans and pundits agreed. You could ...

Has there ever been a better advert for the video assistant referee? Newcastle's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win at Aston Villa was full of controversy, with the video assistant referee (VAR) once again ...

Perhaps the only thing everyone can agree on is that, according to our old friend The Letter of the Law, the “goal” Rayan Cherki scored from inside his own half in the dying moments of added time of ...

Video assistant referee causes controversy every week in the Premier League, but how are decisions made and are they correct? This season, we take a look at the major incidents to examine and explain ...

The Carabao Cup fourth round takes centre stage midweek, with the 16 teams remaining looking to continue their quest to conquer the first major trophy of the season in English football. The fourth ...