Is it true that QPR may have gazumped Forest for Nkeng ?

VAR is here to stay, but it does need more regular and more sensible tweaking…

I quite like watching Premier League games - it helps to ground me, and serves to remind me that we are watching normal football at Wimbledon rather than prima donna theatrials…

If you're not scrapping VAR there are two changes I would introduce. Have a time limit of say 30 seconds on all decisions. If VAR can't decide within this time then it stays with the on-field decision. Draw a thick line for off-sides. Anything within the line goes with the on-field call.

Come on OI eat a reality biscuit buddy. Since when have fans introduced anything into the football rule book?

The demand for VAR largely came from fans who got cross about clear refereeing mistakes. Fans may be right now to regret wanting it but I'd bet that within a few years of scrapping it there would be complaints about bad decisions again.

Agree about scrapping VAR. Takes all the spontaneity out of a game. Agree about the Premier league too - I have just cancelled Sky Sports as even when I had it on it was just background, and for EFL I would usually be out at a game.

I often wonder how today's L1 compares with pre Prem 1980s bearing in mind the number of foreign players in all the leagues. Maybe we are the old Div One?

I can barely recognise half of the players in the premier league these days and I often don't know who certain players are when they get called up for England.

I've been bored with the premier league for years and only watch the highlights or only the goals if possible. I feel just the same with the champions league.

VAR or no VAR, there's no value in the Prem for me anymore. Just arbitary collections of foreign millionaire players and coaches. Not sure how anyone identifies with any of it anymore.

Once we are back in the premier league you will all be watching and enjoying again

I'd get rid of VAR if you could effectively ban the broadcasters from having it or an equivalent. Otherwise they're spending the time saying team X should have won/lost that because we can prove that player Y was/wasn't offside.

Just switch it off it adds no value to the game. It gets as much right as it does wrong and referees can do that on their own without all the delays.

The one thing that would improve VAR is if it was captain/manager initiated, 2 calls, if the call proves right, you don't lose it, if you are wrong its lost. The decision to be called in 30 seconds. That's it.

Well as a product the premier league is one of the most successful competitions in the world so they must be doing something right. If I didn’t have the connection and passion with afc Wimbledon theres no way I would choose to watch the dog shite L1/2 over the prem

How to both win and lose the same game - go figure….? [Link]

I enjoy watching the Sunday afternoon premier league games more for the social aspect of it - rarely care who wins I’m just looking for moments of quality or controversy. But VAR has diminished the actual enjoyment of Premier League football to nigh on nothing. As soon as a goal is scored there’s a professional committee that gets to work to try and rule it out. Pointless.

What is this thing called "Premier League" that some people speak of?

Hash, Florida and Sandy- same here.

Hash & Florida - me too!

Hash: I am the same. I used to take a reasonable interest. Now what with VAR etc, I can't be bothered.

Prestons you may be right i have literally no idea what happens in the prem aside from who wins it, really

Hash- thought Palace were in Europe this year, having won something last season!

Was just thinking about Workington earlier on when reading SW19 and the section about how we always seem to struggle against lower-division oppo in cup games.