'I'm a traditionalist': Graham Potter opens up on his distaste for VAR

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'I'm a traditionalist': Graham Potter opens up on his distaste for VAR

"I have no problem with VAR, necessarily. I don't think I would have had it in the first place because I think I'm a bit of a romantic traditionalist," Graham Potter said yesterday.

"But I understand that we want to make it so that all the decisions are correct. Then I go: do we really want every single decision to be correct? Because there's an element of human error that happens in the game for us all to talk about, to get annoyed about. It's part of the game.

"I don't think it's so easy to be a VAR ref. I think we're still in the early stages of being a VAR ref. I think it must be different to go on the pitch, feeling the game, to then referee the game in this room, for example.

"So that's something that inevitably they're going to get better at, I think. But apart from that, I have enough problems myself to worry about VAR," Potter said.

Chelsea were robbed in broad daylight in their last Premier League game against West Ham when Tomas Soucek intentionally handled the ball in the box. VAR decided to look the other way at that crucial moment.

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