This penultimate post is slightly different to the previous works of art, as it concerns how other sports such as rugby use VAR like technology in their game. How does it work? Is it successful? Well that's what this blog post will look to answer, while seeing if there is any lessons for football's VAR. Rugby has featured video assistant technology for quite some time. In fact, Rugby union first implemented the use of the television match official (TMO) back in 2001. The main intervention points for a TMO are for an act of scoring or foul play. These incidents will affect the scoreboard, requirement for a ruling on disciplinary actions or, sometimes both. Obviously, just like football, these are important to get right as they can massively affect the outcome of the match. One of the main plus points of how the technology is operated in rugby is the fact that when a match is televised, supporters can listen to the referee's thought process aloud, during TV commentary broadca...