Sportsbetting and the English Premier League go together like rhubarb and custard, like strawberries and cream, like peanut butter and jelly. However, just like those sugary treats, too much sportsbetting can be bad for your health. Video Assistant Referee (VAR) may just have worsened the problem for U.K. based gambling markets.

With the rise of sportsbetting in British football something that has even led to law changes over recent years, stopping betting advertisers putting their message in between the minutes before kick-off and the half-time break, VAR’s introduction in the world’s most high-profile club league in the summer has been something of a controversy.

With the system not fully tested, the decisions taking too long to come from the referee and his VAR team, players, teams, managers and fans have felt let down by the intervention of something so robotic, so precisely correct in a game that was always best when it was, at its heart, chaotic.

Football may have been adversely affected by VAR, but what about the betting side of things? Well, some punters got lucky back in August… although the same situation won’t happen again.