Sean Dyche baffled by lengthy VAR decision during Forest win at Wolves

Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche has questioned the length of VAR deliberations after a mammoth five-and-a-half-minute wait in his side’s 1-0 win at Wolves.

Igor Jesus eventually had a first-half goal ruled out for offside at Molineux after a painstaking deliberation process which took five minutes and 33 seconds.

Despite Dan Ndoye clearly standing in an offside position in front of Wolves goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, VAR Rob Jones took an age to send Tim Robinson to the pitchside monitor, with the referee then taking another inordinate amount of time to confirm what appeared visible on one replay.

Jesus went on to score the winner in the second half but the mind-boggling decision-making process was the main talking point for Dyche.

“I think it’s important, managers in the old days before that could lose a job on a bad decision,” he said. “At least now it gives you a better chance of everyone in theory having similar decisions.

“There’s always going to be tough decisions, even with VAR.

“That, for me, is miles too long. There’s a lot of people sitting in those rooms and if that decision is the final one, that can be made a lot quicker than that.

“So, I do feel for fans but the professional side of me says my job might depend on those decisions.

“So, it’s a tough call. But when it takes that long, I think that’s where I spoke years ago, when it first came in I said it’s how quickly they can speed it up and it still hasn’t.”

Dyche also questioned why referees need to address the crowd after a decision is made.

“I just think it’s a waste. It’s already taken forever. Just call it and get on with it. I really don’t understand it,” he said.

“Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe fans want that but it just takes more time.

“I personally, I