World Cup VAR under fire after official appears to flash white-supremacy gesture
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Fare, FIFA’s discrimination monitor, urged that VAR official Shaun Evans be removed after he flashed an upside-down ‘OK’ sign—widely linked to white-supremacist circles—during a World Cup broadcast. Fare says the gesture disqualifies him from duties, though context (political act or prank) is debated; FIFA did not comment, Evans is one of 30 VAR officials at the tournament, and TV directors reportedly stopped introducing the VAR panel in subsequent games.
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