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The video assistant referee has actually had it's lows and highs and believe me when it first came into the EPL it didn't really dazzle but honestly it's made some amazing call over the past few weeks and also some really questionable decisions. One thing I however don't know is whether the assistant referee is AI or a group of people actually standing over a computer to make the decisions however I would say that it's been impactful so far in some of the spots some EPL teams have found themselves in and Liverpool can actually attest to this. What I feel is that if the VAR is a group of people standing over a computer then there will still be that human sentiment and mistake prone factor that comes with refreeing and as much as as I look at how it's made some referees actually a good game I think it's impact on the human referees haven't been really good.


One of the most terrible EPL referees so far has been Jonathan Moss, Mike Dean and Kevin friend everytime I watch a match which they've officiated they're often seem to reliant on VAR to make their decisions one thing they don't know is that VAR hardly checks incidents outside the 18 yard box and I stand to be corrected, sometimes players studies the refereeing pattern of these official and know what they overlook and don't and this becomes a weapon through which they can use to win an EPL games. Players have become actors and so many commit professional fouls and get away the latest have been really discovering new methods to dive and the referees won't even know it's a dive and this has been going on for a long time since the inception of this current EPL campaign.

 
Truth is referees now have to guess rather than give the right verdict and when they're not so sure, they blow the whistle in favour of the team with the better acting ability or prowess all this is because they're now lazy and can't even keep up with the happenings on the pitch. There was this particular EPL game I saw, the player sprinted off really fast and waited for the opposition team to tackle him so he backed the referee when he got to the corner line, he knew the referee couldn't see what was happening and he smartly  dived and yelled and the referee Which turned out to be Jonathan Moss quickly came and blew for a free kick. The opposition players was appealing that it was a dive but Moss didn't even listen and clearly it was a huge dive and even the commentators began to bemoan the disastrous decision by Moss. The resultant freekick was actually scored and the score ended one to nil. 

As a referee I felt Moss Could have done better with his positioning, I know they're humans but for God sake they're professional and I wonder how they can't predict players antics. It's terrible to know that refereeing errors mostly determines the outcome of football matches and even when many will say **it's for the fun of the game** I basically think it's crazy and referees are relenting too much on VAR and this makes them psychologically feel they're good to go. Like I said earlier, I feel it's not only fouls in the 18 yard box or an offside call or goal line call that decides a match and this can be proven from the example I have about a scenario from an EPL game I Saw. In all sincerity I believe players are now playing to their antics for example a team that's really good on set pieces will dive more in really good positions and this will be done perfectly when they manage to professionally fool the referee so referees should think faster, improve on their positioning, see the offense well before giving a verdict.