IFAB chief David Elleray defends VAR use in the Premier League but makes key admission

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VAR has helped to clean up football, according to a key figure at the game’s law-making body, The application of the technology has been controversial to say the least, with two-thirds of respondents in a YouGov poll in February saying they felt it made watching Premier League matches less enjoyable.

David Elleray, a former Premier League referee who is now the technical director for the International Football Association Board (IFAB), accepts VAR has affected the flow of the game.

But he says it has also made the game fairer. “It’s clear that football is fairer but it’s also clear that VAR has had an impact on the flow of the game,” he said. “Inevitably if you are going to stop the game to look at a replay, that involves stopping the