Taken hands in the bag. During a Bulgarian D1 meeting between the CSKA Sofia and the Lokomotiv Sofia, on April 2, an referee present in the VAR was filmed in the process of consulting a sports betting site in the exercise of its functions.
The scene was filmed live by the television camera installed in the Var. Images that have gone around social networks and that obviously have triggered a scandal in Bulgaria.
The company which takes care of the technical implementation of the VAR denounced “a serious fault” of the video assistance operator, who ” seemed to be engaging in inappropriate activities. If it is proven that he has engaged in such an inappropriate activity, we will consider dismissal. »»
The Var is also a scandal in France
During the last day of Ligue 1, the Var also made a lot of talk in France. The president of Reims, Jean-Pierre Caillot, expressed his anger concerning video arbitration at the end of the defeat of his team against Strasbourg (0-1).
“” We are going to be polite, we will still explain to us that we have the best referees in the world … I can tell Mr. Gautier that his monthly meetings, he will no longer see me. The guy of the Var, it may be like in the advertising a burgerdid he drop in Dazn's microphone. Mr. Turpin may not see the fault but at least that he is called. The Var is useless, if not to cost money. We are not going to make controversy but we would have good reasons. It's scandalous, Mr. Turpin's refereeing today. It's often like that, every week, things are happening like that, but we are told that we have the best referees in the world. »» This is said.
