However, it has added a further element to the referee's pre-match ritual with officials now needing to test the system 90 minutes before every match to determine whether the technology is working as expected.

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Perhaps these pundits should pause and think just how the British legal system would appear to the average American judges and lawyers in funny wigs indulging in an arcane ritual which is frequently incomprehensible to defendants and spectators.

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