I don’t feel it’s that big of an exaggeration, to be honest. Celebrating the moment of a goal scored is the pinnacle of the football experience, it’s what the game at its core is all about. VAR takes that away from me.
Before, we might discuss a refereeing decision at length if it was particularly scandalous. Now, refereeing decisions seem to be all we ever talked about. VAR has reduced the way we talk about and discuss the game to endlessly looking at lines on a screen and still-frame photos of arms in various angles.
I hate it. I hate what it’s doing to my game.