There has been considerable discussion surrounding the Video Assistant Referee system and its implementation into the world’s top football leagues. English clubs have received their first taste of it in this season’s FA Cup, where it was fervently met with varying opinions from managers, players, fans and pundits.

The Champions League has yet to introduce this latest game-changing technology, though there is certainly some eagerness to see it instituted.

One proponent is Roma president James Pallotta, who has demanded the use of VAR in the Champions League next season following their semi-final defeat to Liverpool, adding that it would be an ‘absolute joke’ if it were not. Pallotta attributed his club’s ‘embarrassing’ 7-6 aggregate loss to key incidents in the second leg that did not go their way.

Roma’s sporting director Monchi called on all of Italian football to join the VAR debate. Though he and Pallotta congratulated Liverpool on their victory and progression to the final, both men expressed the need to evaluate the shocking decisions in the Champions League this year.

Fans on Twitter have expressed whether VAR would have made a difference:

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