‘Nowhere near good enough’: Premier League admits VAR needs to improve

* Checks take too long and in-stadium experience is ‘poor’
* However chief football officer says VAR is helping referees




The Premier League has accepted improvements need to be made to VAR, acknow­ledging there are too many checks, they take too long and supporter experience of the video technology is “nowhere near good enough”.

The frank assessment by the chief football officer, Tony Scholes, comes as the league admitted it was not in a position to confirm the ­introduction of semi-automatic ­offside ­technology for next season, one key hope for ­cutting down decision times. Scholes did confirm, however, that the ­number of errors made by VAR had fallen this season. Continue reading...