{"id":784121,"date":"2023-07-17T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=784121"},"modified":"2023-07-18T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T03:31:08","slug":"lack-of-live-var-communication-to-football-fans-a-huge-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/uefa\/lack-of-live-var-communication-to-football-fans-a-huge-missed-opportunity","title":{"rendered":"Lack of live VAR communication to football fans \u2018a huge missed opportunity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of communication around VAR decisions to fans in stadiums and watching on television is a &#8220;huge missed opportunity&#8221; according to the boss of a key Premier League and Champions League rights holder.More than three quarters of match-goers (79.1 per cent) and two-thirds of TV viewers (65.4 per cent) rated their experience of VAR as either poor or very poor in a survey of almost 10,000 fans published by the Football Supporters&#8217; Association last month.Eighty per cent said fans should be able to hear live discussions between the VAR and the on-pitch referee, something not allowed under the current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of communication around VAR decisions to fans in stadiums and watching on television is a &#8220;huge missed opportunity&#8221; according to the boss of a key Premier League and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-uefa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}