Referee Bobby Madley has admitted he hates VAR, claiming it spoils the game for football fans.
Madley, who takes charge of games in the EFL and is a fourth official in the Premier League, believes moments such as Sergio Aguero's stoppage-time winner to hand Manchester City the title in 2012 could not happen now because of the controversial technology.
He said: 'As a fan, hate it, hate it. Love the Championship, love League One — I'm still a fan. I love League One because you score a goal, you look at the referee... you look at the assistant (and if) he hasn't put his flag up, it's a goal.
'That Aguero moment we had where the referee was blowing, nobody's flagging, they've won the league. You are never, ever going to see that again because what will happen is the referee will stand there, everyone will panic... they're just checking potential offside.
'Football is a game where there could be one moment in the game, one goal, and that's it. To take that emotion away from it, to have to wait and wait what feels like an eternity... as a fan, I'm not a huge fan of that experience.'
Madley, who was speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival during an event on technology in sport, added: 'There's so much money in football, it's business driven. So any mistake is perceived to cost people money,' Madley said.
'And I don't think most football fans were clambering over each other to get video technology.
'We've got to the stage where people go, "Sorry, we're ruining football with this now". But we knew the monster that had been created. As referees, we knew what was coming.'
The 39-year-old said the use of VAR had changed the psychology of refereeing because previously you would not know until after the game had finished.
'All of a sudden you've got to process 'I've made a wrong decision' in front of 75,000 people, in front of 100million people watching. What if I make another one?' he said.
'You know, I can't keep making wrong decisions because sometimes the players are going to say, 'How many more?'
'If you're sent to the screen for a second time, the trust weighs a little bit and that's a dangerous place to be as a referee.
'When people stop trusting your decision-making, that can be a very dangerous place.
'That's why we have so much training with VAR and that's why we have that bar set as a clear and obvious error.'