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Mark White

The VAR table: You won't believe who's top of the Premier League if you discount VAR decisions

The VAR table: You won't believe who's top of the Premier League if you discount VAR decisions.

Here at FourFourTwo, we're keeping a VAR table. That's a version of the Premier League table, without all the goals that the Video Assistant Referees have either awarded or chalked off.

If VAR ruled out a goal, we've added it back; if they awarded a penalty which was later scored, we've chalked it off. We've not changed red cards, obviously. So while Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has raged about the state of refereeing, while the PGMOL has apologised for a human error to Liverpool and while just about every fan has had their say on the state of officiating, do decisions really level out over the course of a season?

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