A Nottingham Forest fan makes plain his feelings about VAR. Premier League clubs are set to vote on its future.A Nottingham Forest fan makes plain his feelings about VAR. Premier League clubs are set to vote on its future.. The motion will almost certainly not achieve majority support, never mind secure the 14 votes out of 20 needed for it to pass. But what it may do is to shift the Overton window and lead to a serious review of VAR, an assessment of where it works and where it doesn’t.
It also generated one of the first punditry fogs that have complicated the issue as both Alan Shearer and Didier Drogba suggested the referee was right to show only a yellow card because he had had to look at multiple angles, taking significant time. How then, they asked, could the error be obvious enough to overturn the original decision?view multiple angles: “clear and obvious” doesn’t mean that a decision can be made from the first shot chosen by the director.
VAR is a television phenomenon. In the ground, fans may rage against decisions but they rarely know for certain they are wrong. It’s those who have seen multiple replays in the immediate aftermath who demand the injustice be righted.