VAR
West Ham were one of the first teams in the Premier League to experience the unresearched, tiring, and frankly volatile nature of VAR. That was against Manchester City in 2019, a game in which we ended up losing 5-0. This is a game wherein VAR was used in favour of the visitors, giving Sergio Aguero a second chance at a penalty after Fabianski was caught off his line. Since then, the consensus towards VAR has been wholly negative. With contentious offside goals being chalked off, and questionable tackles being ratified by the team in Stockley Park. The most controversial calls lie in the toenail offsides, as they are quite commonly referred to as. Now, decisions of this nature have been rife throughout the Premier League the past three years, with decisions going for and against any and every team. In a general sense, the two main problems that people have with VAR is the time it takes during a game, and if an incident is ‘clear and obvious’ enough to be challenged by Stockley Park. Th...
