More than 75% of Premier League fans do not support the continued use of Video Assistant Referees (VAR), a Football Supporters Association (FSA) survey showed.<\/p>\n
The survey was conducted online between February 26 and March 23 and saw almost 8 000 fans of top-flight clubs participate, the FSA said.<\/p>\n
The results showed that 75.7% did not support the use of VAR in football, with 91.7% saying VAR had removed the spontaneous joy of goal celebrations.<\/p>\n
These findings back up the FSA\u2019s previous survey in 2021, where fans expressed misgivings about the introduction of VAR,\u201d FSA\u2019s Premier League network Manager Thomas Concannon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have shared the survey results with the Premier League and Professional Game Match Officials Limited and look forward to discussing its findings with them.<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/em> has requested comment from the Premier League.<\/p>\n Premier League teams voted in favour of keeping VAR in June 2024 despite considerable amount of criticism about the technology-aided officiating system.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile VAR produces more accurate decision making, it was agreed that improvements should be made for the benefit of the game and supporters,\u201d the league said in a statement at the time<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –Reuters–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13218,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-30336","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The results showed that 75.7% did not support the use of VAR in football.","published_date":"","news_description":"The results showed that 75.7% did not support the use of VAR in football.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30337,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30336\/revisions\/30337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}