Ask most fans if they think Refs are shit
Ask most fans if they think footballs ‘corrupt’
Ask most fans if they think their own team gets unfair treatment
Majority verdict doesn’t mean it’s right, VAR has greatly improved and will improve year on year.
As per the last poll - most fans wouldn’t scrap VAR they just want it improved.
Since the date VAR came in, the game, as a product, has got worse. It has become more frustrating, infuriating, over-analysed, confused, pgmol'd to death (Ref's really were never
this much of a topic before VAR). It has become more politicised, more contentious. Refs more regularly get death threats. We STILL get the most outrageous incorrect decisions. I think its actually brought the game into disrepute, it's become a funny meme used in adverts for shit stuff.
But for me, and I might be wrong, it feels like football getting more distant from true fans. Like its being taken away from us and monetised etc, and I think VAR is part of that. I mean what happened to keeping the game the same at all levels?
Anyway, given a choice, any football fan would rejoice at VAR being removed, it would be like liberation, like we had a say in our game. Then we would go back to moaning and complaining about refs. It is what we liked to do. But we would never go back to VAR.