"Is there a reason I should award the goal*?"
Versus...
"Is there I reason I should not award the goal*?"
...are the only things that should come from the referee. Yes/No from VAR plus the reason if required.
(*penalty/card/whatever)
Did you watch the Everton game? Ball* came off Everton shoulder on to Spurs hand in Spurs box. It should have taken VAR about ten seconds to rule 'play on'.
The only reason I can think of for the 4 minute delay is that the 'refereeing team' don't know the rules, or that the rules are not clear. I personally can't see how a ball deflected to a hand a yard away can be 'handball', but I don't know how the rules are worded, and suspect they are ambiguous.
I have a meeting next week to discuss what constitutes plagiarism, how we judge it, who identifies it, who makes the final decision, and what the penalties should be. Our 22 page guidance document is.....unclear. And we are university academics. Our solution cannot be to disregard plagiarism, and we have our own version of VAR called 'turnitin'. The meting will be....interesting.
The ball, not Alan Ball, obviously.