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Will be happy when VAR comes in. Its not the be all and end all but it will give a degree of clarity to matters and support a group of referees who have been absolutely abysmal this season. It may have worked against us today with the penalty decisions Bournemouth could have had but I would have felt more comfortable with VAR than without it. With it we have a penalty at the end of the game regardless of any other decisions.
Pawsons refereeing was Sunday league level and I am being unkind to Sunday League refs. Not sure what has happened to the standard of refereering but they are presiding over multi-million pound decisions essentially as thats what is on offer for CL qualification. So to have those types of decisions in the hands of people who currently need to go to Specsavers is laughable.
VAR won't be a catch all or cure all but it will be at the very least a Guide dog or a white stick for the referees who seem otherwise blind.
Tbh I think losing 13 games will have more to do with our failure to qualify for CL than the abysmal state of our refereeing!