Is VAR slowly killing the Premier League and in turn reviving the EFL?

On any average day you can go on Twitter (just straight refuse to call it X) and you will see musings of fans disdain for VAR, throw in a day following a particularly bad VAR decision and those musings become more vociferous. Given that theme you would expect the opposite and a clamour for VAR when a decision in a league with no video technology say the Championship has a howler, of perhaps a handball that wasn’t given. That however is not quite how it goes.

The purity of football at the top level has become all too sanitised, we all know that and let’s not get started on the farce of a World Cup and how out of touch with reality that became, but the Premier League is suffering from a plague of VAR and the hardcore fans have had enough. Just ask those fans of teams who have been relegated and you can see how perceivably bizarre it is that they are more than happy to go down and not have to witness VAR week in week out. What does that tell you when fans are almost happy to be relegated? Now there’s more to this than just VAR, how uncompetitive the Premier League has become will certainly play a part, teams have no real chance of anything outside the big clubs, so a chance at glory in the Championship will have its own lures, but you ask any day to day fan and they will tell you that being at a game in the stadium with no VAR is such a better experience, and that’s what matters and speaks to the match going fan, the emotions it invokes and memories it creates.
The Premier League will always have it’s place in the corporate world with tourists and glory hunters, but you can sense a tide is turning with attendances on the rise throughout the leagues and an offer of the pure version of football too good to turn down. People will come Ray, people will most definitely come the longer VAR stays out of the EFL, and if you’re fortunate enough to know that movie, you will know just how many people will come.