VAR was sold to us on a lie but don't be the loser clinging to the sinking ship: we have to get rid of

After a terrible Premier League weekend for VAR, fans at every club must rid the game of a faulty system that was sold to us on a complete lie.

What was the point of introducing VAR? Well, as you will remember, that was to correct glaring errors, right? It was to make things fairer.

He failed on both counts.

When it was sold to us, it was not imagined, much less expressed, that this technology would actually make mistakes, just as referees on the pitch always have. It was not specified that he would be subject to the same vagaries of human fallibility as the referee on the pitch, only transposed to Stockley Park.

No, we were sold a system that would work narrowly and specifically. But, of course, he didn't deliver the promised brave new world and is little more than a guy in a dark room staring at a screen with line drawing software.

The parallels with Brexit are compelling. We went from a system that was certainly imperfect but which largely worked well for many years and gave us a lot of freedom, to a system that made everything more difficult, more frustrating, more constraining and just plain worse. The lawyers believed a lot of lies. Yes, it's VAR.

And just like Brexit, those who wanted it introduced find it difficult, if not impossible, to admit they got it wrong. Instead, they rely on "it's not implemented properly" to excuse all failures. But the way it's implemented is the way it always will be. Remember when people said it would get better with use. Does he have? No, this is not the case. He can't.

Those who say "the VAR itself is not the problem". It's the morons who exploit it' clearly bought into the idea that VAR would somehow operate independently of humans - the way Brexiteers bought lies written on a bus or thought that leaving the EU would stop people coming to the UK from Pakistan - and would be Human Error free. They believed it was high-end computer technology, not some myopic guy with a headache.

Unless we raise super humans who can't make mistakes, mistakes will always be made.

You'll notice the ragged group of pro-VAR defenders has been whittled down to two basic arguments.

First of all, it made the game MORE exciting because you can celebrate a goal twice: once when it's scored, then again when VAR approves it.

Second, he correctly allowed goals that would have been wrongly disallowed and scored goals that would have been wrongly allowed.

The first one is delusional. VAR completely ruined every goal because as soon as the ball goes into the net and everyone starts dancing, VAR hangs like a curse on the proceedings. Time and time again, the atmosphere sinks like a lead balloon and the players start hanging around for up to five minutes, like lost children, waiting for approval from above.

This joy when the goal is given, it's not joy, it's relief. All the joy of scoring the goal in the first place is now lost. This terrible feeling of cynicism when a goal is scored is entirely new, a product of VAR and goes against the very spirit of football. Whenever a goal is scored, the first thing you do is stare at the screen, hoping it doesn't turn purple. It's a kind of torment.

When West Ham scored their equalizer against Chelsea, everyone went wild in traditional style and then VAR crushed it all, ruling out the goal for a non-existent foul. This feeling of having scored only to have it scored a few minutes later is odious. It's worse than never scoring, even worse when the decision is simply wrong, as it was at Stamford Bridge.

Before VAR, the decision was immediate, so you knew that if the flag wasn't raised after the ball hit the net, it was a goal. Those days are long gone.

Is giving it all up worth the few times it overturns a bad decision to allow or disallow a goal? Of course not. So many decisions...