Bosses back new tech despite fan concerns

improve the system that exists at the moment and we will contribute to improve it,” he said.

“There are some hiccups at the start of the functioning certainly and we need to clear up the way it works.

“Is that enough to renounce it? I would say no, I am still a fervent supporter of it and I believe we have to move forward with it and improve the system certainly, but we have to go with it.

“You cannot imagine that in the future it will not be used. We will have to find the proper way to do it, but it has to go that way.”

Sadly, “hiccups” does even touch some of bellyaching that was going on among the perplexed Chelsea fans – and it was not their fault. Not enough is being done to educate supporters about what is going on.

TV viewers could at least see closeup shots of referee Graham Scott

talking into not the his headset – the only evidence available at all that VAR was even in use. Rightly or wrongly, the message he received back from Premier League HQ was that he did not need to review any of his decisions to book three Chelsea players for simulation rather than award them penalties. The IFAB produce a secret document that runs to 60 pages on how to implement a VAR system which they insist is followed to the letter. Every detail is covered about how to use it, only somebody seems to have forgotten to tell the fans. While the VAR is instructed to look again at each and every major incident, he only speaks to the match referee if he sees a problem. This “silent check” process leaves fans waiting expectantly for some sort of confirmation from “upstairs” that will never come. Sources at the IFAB insist that while communication remains an issue, fans in countries where they have been trialling the system for longer soon get used to it. At least in

Nothing is done to inform fans