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Crystal Palace boss Hodgson: Prem must decide on VAR commitment

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson feels the Premier League face a major decision on VAR.

Hodgson says the competition must decide whether they're fully committed to it.

He said, “I'm afraid we wanted VAR because we wanted 100% certainty that goals would not be scored or allowed when really they should have been disallowed or goals disallowed when really they should have been scored.

“Everyone told me and the rest of the football world that to do that we need this VAR technology, we need to check things out. Now we've got it, of course, we seem to be going through a period where people now want to go back to the old days.

“I don't know what the alternative is. I think you either go with it and try to improve it along the way or you say, look, it hasn't really worked for us, we'll go back to where it once was.

“So many people say it spoils things a bit when a goal is scored now, you've got to wait.

"Answering the type of question you're asking is hard to come by because the pressure on us and the need to get results is so great that unfortunately after a game that we think we've lost three points due to what we regard as a very bad decision on the field of play or exacerbated by VAR, we unfortunately are not going to have the type of perspective to answer.

“Is VAR a good thing because it does definitely remove some of the very bad decisions that were made in the past where the referee unfortunately made a mistake? Or is it a bad thing because some of the spontaneity is taken from the game? That's really for people to debate."

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