Yep, I’d agree with that.Someone said it best on another thread somewhere on here recently; VAR in English football is basically legalised match fixing. It's a tool used to help certain teams and protect "the brand".
Much like FFP, the purpose of VAR (in English football at least) has nothing to do with fairness or correcting errors. And to anyone who follows a non-Sky Sports Six team that has dealt with FFP and VAR it's starting to become very obvious.
As I’m sure everyone is fed up with me mentioning by now, the Germans - and their amateur officials - seem to have made a better fist of VAR than the Premier League has.
Perhaps that is another contributing factor - along with fan-ownership through „50+1“ - that makes the Bundesliga so enjoyable to watch.
I mean, last weekend I genuinely enjoyed watching Bayer Leverkusen win the title for the first time in their 120-year history, even though they’ve had a couple of right ding-dong battles with the VfB this season (and we are off up there again, this weekend…)
As for Man City and their financial doping from whichever coalition of petrodollars is bankrolling them? Well I mean „Pep“ Guardiola is all well a good, but you could stick Mike Bassett in charge of that team and their budget and even he’d have them up the sharp end of the table.
It just isn’t the same.