Referee Bobby Madley has admitted that he hates VAR and claims that it spoils the game for football fans.
Madley, who takes the lead over competitions in the EFL and is a fourth officer in the Premier League, believes that moments such as Sergio Aguero's stop-time winner to act in 2012, could not happen because of the controversial technology.
He said: “As a fan, it hates, hates it. I love the championship, Love League One – I am still a fan. I love League One because you score a goal, you look at the referee … You look at the assistant (and if) he has not set up his flag, it is a goal.
'That Aguero moment that we had where the referee blew, no one marks, they have won the competition. You will never see that again, because what will happen is that the referee will be there, everyone will panic … They simply check potential offside.
'Football is a match where a moment could be involved, one goal, and that's it. To remove that emotion, to wait and wait what feels like an eternity … As a fan I am not a big fan of that experience. '
Madley, who spoke at the Cheltenham Science Festival during an event about technology in sport, added: 'There is so much money in football, it is businesslike. So every mistake is seen to cost people money, “said Madley.
'And I don't think most football fans are clambering to get video technology.
“We are on stage where people go:” Sorry, we are now ruining football with this “. But we knew the monster that had been created. As referees we knew what would come. '
The 39-year-old said that the use of VAR had changed the psychology of referee, because you would not know before the game had ended.
'Suddenly you have to process' I have made a wrong decision' for 75,000 people, for 100 million people who watch. What if I make one? “He said.
'You know, I can't make the wrong decisions, because sometimes the players say: “How much more? '
'If you are sent to the screen for the second time, confidence weighs a bit and that is a dangerous place to be as a referee.
'When people stop trusting your decision -making, it can be a very dangerous place.
“That is why we have so much training with VAR and that is why we have set that bar as a clear and obvious mistake.”