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I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR: Forward by Jonathan Wilson

Daisy Christodoulou

Jonathan Wilson

  • As any football fan knows, VAR has been the biggest area of controversy in the game since its introduction in 2019 -and in June 2024 Wolverhampton tried unsuccessfully to get it removed. This is the first book to grapple with what VAR is trying to do, why it’s failing, and what that tells us about both the game of football and the society we live in
  • The book was prompted by a viral tweet thread the author wrote about VAR, which subsequently inspired a Radio 4 programme
  • I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR is both a book for sports fans, and sports philosophers
  • Daisy Christodoulou’s day job is about making the process of assessments in education faster and fairer with technology, and has written three books about education. She has nearly 70,000 followers on Twitter. This is her first book about football

  • Classification : Sports & Leisure
  • Pub Date : NOV 6, 2025
  • Imprint : Swift Press
  • Page Extent :
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781800754959
  • Price : INR 999
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Daisy Christodoulou

Daisy Christodoulou is the author of three influential books about education and education technology, and has written about cricket for the Nightwatchman Quarterly. She is the Director of Education at No More Marking, a provider of online comparative judgement software which is used by over 1,500 schools to improve the way they make assessment decisions, as well as the co-author of a peer-reviewed journal article about this approach to decision-making. I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR is her first book about football.

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Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson is a columnist for the Guardian and the founder and editor of The Blizzard. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Seven of his other books have been shortlisted for football book of the year and he has also won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli in Italy. Angels with Dirty Faces did the double of football book and history book of the year at the Polish Sports Book Awards in 2018. He is a three-time recipient of the FSA Football Writer of the Year award and in 2023 was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland. He writes for the Guardian and in 2011 founded The Blizzard, which he still edits. He is also the co-presenter of the football history podcast It Was What It Was.

Twitter/X: @jonawils

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