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'It seemed to be overused': Match-going fans react to first weekend of VAR

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The opening weekend of the 2019-20 Premier League season saw VAR make its debut in the division.

The 2019-20 Premier League season is just a few days old, and yet the newly implemented VAR technology has already stolen the headlines on multiple occasions.

Gabriel Jesus will go down in history as the first player to have a goal ruled out by VAR in the Premier League, his effort for Manchester City against West Ham chalked off for an offside infringement.

But what do the fans who attended the first games of the new season make of the impact the tech has had on their experience?

The introduction of the technology to the Premier League has been widely debated on television and social media already. May believes it does have a place in the game, but could stand to be used more sparingly.

“I think probably they should be more sparing, and maybe what I’d like to see is some kind of limit on the number of things you can query over VAR, because some of them did seem rather spurious.

“I think it was good for the goals – the marginal offside decisions – but it seemed to be overused.”

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