Yes, the officials were dire at Villa Park but give me that chaos of errors over joy-robbing VAR every time. If it means football gets its spontaneity back, I'll live with the blunders, writes OLIVER HOLT
The first time I remember railing against referees, I was 10. It is bred in us early in English football, this contempt and this distrust for officials, and I had my rite of passage like everyone else.