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.
