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More than 75% of Premier League fans do not enactment the continued usage of Video Assistant Referees (VAR), a survey by a shot supporters radical showed.
The survey was conducted online betwixt February 26 and March 23 and saw astir 8,000 fans of top-flight clubs participate, the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) said.
The results showed that 75.7% did not enactment the usage of VAR successful football, with 91.7% saying VAR had removed the spontaneous joyousness of extremity celebrations.
“These findings back up the FSA’s erstwhile survey successful 2021, wherever fans expressed misgivings astir the instauration of VAR," FSA’s Premier League web manager Thomas Concannon said.
The FSA had shared the survey results with the Premier League and referees' assemblage PGMOL and looked guardant to discussing the findings, helium added.
In response, the Premier League said VAR had led to much accurate outcomes portion remaining little disruptive than successful other European competitions.
"In caller seasons, determination person been astir 100 close VAR overturns per season – instances wherever goals would different person been incorrectly awarded oregon disallowed, oregon reddish cards oregon penalties missed or wrongly given," a Premier League spokesperson said successful a statement.
"The league applies a precocious threshold for VAR intervention, with the referee’s telephone taking precedence. As a result, VAR is little intrusive successful the Premier League than successful different European leagues, including the Champions League, wherever VAR intervenes astir doubly arsenic often."
It added that refining the usage of VAR remained a cardinal absorption for some the league and PGMOL, and that it would proceed to prosecute with stakeholders as portion of its efforts to betterment the system.
"As portion of ongoing dialog with supporters, Premier League probe indicates fans are mostly successful favour of keeping VAR, but improving the mode it is used,” it said.
