The Premier League said its own figures showed the number of correct decisions in matches was at 96%, compared to 82% before VAR was introduced.

It claimed there were only five incorrect VAR interventions last season, compared to 105 correct calls – an improvement on 2022-23, with 11 wrong VAR decisions to 105 which were right.

“There were actually less errors last year than before. A small number of incidents live large in the memory,” Webb added.

He also said that match officials, including VAR, “only actually take away one in every 25 goals”.

Scholes said the system will “never be perfect” but claimed that “four out of five [fans] want to keep VAR, based on our independent study”.

He added: “That says one in five would get rid of it and that’s a big minority. And most of the four out of five say we need to improve it.”

Scholes accepts that VAR “comes with a cost”, but explained: “The cost is partly inevitable – there are delays to the game, the supporter experience is poor. We know that and we’re not going to get rid of that, it’s an inevitable part of VAR. But our job is to minimise it.

“Our job is to make sure the delays are reduced to the point of reasonableness and the supporter experience is improved as well.”

So how will those two points be addressed?