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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Mike Walters

'VAR is the sick joke of football - it's time to bin it or put ex-players in control'

Enough is enough – VAR is the sick man of football and should be binned NOW.

Even by the Professional Game Match Officials Board's dismal standards, Saturday was the darkest day of a scourge killing the Premier League. This scribbler of notes would happily tip every TV screen, dashboard and console at Stockley Park into the nearest landfill, set fire to it and crack open the champagne while it burned.

When games at Arsenal, West Ham and Crystal Palace are all distorted by VAR officials who either don't understand the game or don't apply the technology correctly, time is up for football's worst disease since cheats learned to dive in the box.

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