Premier League clubs vote overwhelmingly to keep VAR

Dermot Gallagher will obviously be rubbing his hands, because this will keep the man in a job, and help keep these referees from explaining their subjective decisions, which seem to change weekly.

This band of backslapping support of each other and the vast corruptive amounts of money involved means fair play and fan enjoyment plays a secondary role.

Btw, Jay, I hope that your expectations of any independent regulator representing the fans views are not dashed by whatever form such a regulator may take – if, indeed, we get one in the end.

That said, it's not VAR that's the issue – it is the clowns they have using it.

They need more transparency on the ground, live audio and video clips played so you can hear and see what's going on. That way they can't hide behind dodgy decisions.

I wonder if they are scared it might cause a riot — especially if fans can see they are wrong?

Each ground to have a 30 second VAR decision clock and we could all count down from 30 to 0.

Would break the silence and boredom waiting for the mainly useless VAR officials to over-rule the useless referees and bring back a little excitement.

40 thousand counting down all together would be hilarious and would show up the useless and corrupt officials who now depend on VAR to auto-correct themselves.

I’ll provide the Kool-aid

Wolves getting ready to bring a case against the Premier League?

I expect the club delegates, Premier League big wigs and PGMOL all had a jolly at Betty's Tea Rooms after the vote.

The simple, inescapable fact is that VAR, like MLB Review and NFL Instant Replay and Hawkeye in tennis and TMO in rugby, reduces and corrects missed calls. Studies in every sport have proven video review's impact.

There is simply too much money at stake -- TV, commercial, sponsorship and especially betting -- to ever go back to the results-changing mistakes of all-human officiating.

VAR sucks because it's so badly executed. The bureaucratic rules and inherent bias in its use sometimes make it impossible for referees to use it properly. The powers that be will try to make it better. They will never vote it out.

I like it.

Football has messed it up. I'll give them teething problems, but come on. Learn the lessons and refine it.

The main issue for me is the standard of officials. Make them audible, accountable in their decision making. And get them out of Stockley Park and into the stadiums around the country. The Premier League can afford it.

And the rules. The current offside rule is ridiculous. Bootlaces and a stray finger. Honestly.

Most clubs where on the wrong end of VAR last season, Wolves more than others. There is no way of improving it, the same refs are running and ruining it.

Once again, the fans sold out by their own clubs. We can't even celebrate a goal anymore in our own ground and have no idea what is going on with VAR.

Expect the same shit sandwich next season. At least Wolves tabled the motion, all the other sheep just followed the cash.

The trouble is, same as the Premier League, they have developed a severe case of

'Tinkerman-itis' in a mistaken effort to chase audiences and make the game 'more popular' aka, Mo' money, Mo' money, Mo' 'kin Money.

So they 'fine tune' the rules...sometimes half way through the season...and both seem to send their Reffs out with a predetermined set of 'Rules of Engagement' which bear only a vague similarity to the actual letter...and more importantly...the spirit of the FIFA rules.

Which state, amongst other things that - The Referee shall control the game with help from the assistants

Not the other way fuckin round !

The fans don't count at clubs until they want our money.

Once the on-field incident goes to the VAR, that's where the decision must be made. The farce of going back to the referee and him running to the touchline screen must end.

It's plain and simple!!

One of the most annoying failures in the use of VAR is this totally embarrassing spectacle of the VAR officials being called upon to make a decision and then, with the use of all the technical tools at their disposal, are unable, or don't have the balls, to make the decision, pass it back to the ref for him to call it.

The fault that this highlights is the much spoken about aspect “Clear and Obvious” — it can't be that clear and obvious if it takes half-an-hour to resolve. And no matter where they draw that bloody line to prove offside, it never looks clear and obvious.

I wish they'd piss off with this assistant referee putting his flag up after the goal's been scored, or some poor bleeding forward has had his legs scythed from under him.

This topic winds me up but, if it's going to stay, put the bloody game first, not some dithering techno geek as adjudicator. Just give us one simple answer to all the calls that have to be made: “Is it or isn't it?” Simple!!!

If they can do those to a significant degree, then I don't have a problem with keeping it (for now).

I'd like them to sort out the handball and offside decisions but I don't think those are particularly a problem with VAR itself and improving the transparency on the discussions and decision-making may be enough to prevent truly inexplicable decisions.

There is no going back on VAR now. It has been used (abused) in a very amateurish way.

Why "shame" on Wolves though?

I imagine Wolves were well aware it would be voted down but what they have accomplished is forcing the authorities to take steps to improve it which — if it happens — is a positive.

And review the rules, especially how offside is interpreted. Clear daylight is my preference. Handball is a bit trickier.

VAR would have given the Hamilton goal that Clive Thomas ruled out for alleged handball. And we would have got a penalty in the 84 League Cup Final when Hansen patted the ball with his left hand.

VAR isn't the enemy. It's the officials. We have just transferred the problem rather than really addressing the root cause.

They managed to not give Rodri's basketball impression against us and also deemed Robinson's "save" against Fulham on the line last season as hands being in anatural position.

They say that VAR gets all these decisions right but it's just their interpretation of right. No way in hell should the Rodri and Robinson incidents not have resulted in penalties.

Playing on makes complete sense. All this talk of “someone's going to get injured”; I don't get it. You play to the whistle. You could get injured at any time.

VAR is here to stay and I think it's a good thing. I do think it can improve but I've looked at replays of incidents over the years where I still can't decide definitively what I think the outcome should be. Some incidents are simply debatable.

But surely VAR was brought in to help improve the number of correct decisions, and not to attain perfection.