Premier League without VAR: Where Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and others would be without technology

A look at the Premier League table without VAR to see where Manchester United and Manchester City would rank.

The Manchester derby came and went on Sunday, but not without a little controversy. While Manchester City did steamroll Manchester United at Old Trafford, a controversial early penalty decision helped, with Rasmus Hojlund penalised for being a little too handsy in the box.

Erling Haaland took advantage from the spot, and he went on to get another, with Phil Foden also getting on the scoresheet. VAR was responsible for the penalty call, and that got us thinking about what the Premier League table would look like without the technology. Here we have that revised table, which is calculated by taking VAR decisions that influenced results and going with the decision made by the on-field referee.

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