Manchester United 2 - 0 Huddersfield Town; 5 Talking Points

#4 VAR will lessen the burden on the referees

The ref didn't have the best of games

Take a moment, and watch this video -

McTominay getting absolutely smashed pic.twitter.com/TkGbbhwhwa

— Pogba FC (@Pogba6FC) February 3, 2018

For those who can't watch it, it's Terence Kongolo using Scott McTominay like one of those mannequin/models NFL linebackers use to practice their tackles and lunges on. This happened inside the Huddersfield box and smack bang in front of the referee.

What, then, does Mr. Stuart Atwell do? He calls play off so that McTominay can get himself checked by the medical staff, then asks Huddersfield to punt it back to United... how that was not a penalty, or a red card or a yellow card...

In the last United game, Tottenham were denied a stonewall penalty when Valencia plowed through Son - and if we are to drag up contentious penalty decisions across the Premier League, the list would go on and on.

The bottom line is - forget arguments based on sentimentality and bias when we can use technology to lessen the burden on the most under-pressure individual in football, please let's.