How can I best sum up how VAR has worked in its first season in the Premier League? I would liken it to an awkward brother-in-law: you may not always like him, you have plenty of disagreements, but ultimately you have to put up with him.

VAR is here to stay. Managers are not going to stop complaining when things do not go their way but they will have also benefited from decisions that would not have been made before the introduction of technology.

Only last week, Sam Surridge looked to have scored a last-gasp equaliser for Bournemouth against Southampton only for the VAR to spot that Callum Wilson was clearly interfering with play in an offside position. Imagine the uproar from Aston Villa and