Referees ordered not to check VAR in matches after difficult introduction to PL

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Premier League refereeing chiefs will resist calls for officials to start using their pitch-side monitors for VAR checks as they feel it will slow the game down too much.

The video referees came under fire on Sunday as fans claimed Manchester City and Tottenham were denied penalties.

VAR neither overturned the referees’ decisions nor telling them to review the incident on their monitors.

But English refereeing organisation PGMOL are determined not to rush into any knee-jerk reaction.

They will stand by their current version of VAR, which is based on minimum interference.

Insiders say PGMOL would rather be criticised for using the technology too little than too much, but they are open to

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