Matt Stevenson
First Team
I reckon the quickest way to speed up VAR would be to go to the old offside rule - that if you're level, you're onside. That's still the rule in lower leagues, so why change it in the PL. However much they may say that they haven't changed the rule, they have - they have abolished the concept of "level" for offside.
Then for goals like Danny Ings' yesterday, they don't have to fanny about drawing lines on the pitch. They can look at one camera angle, one shot, agree that he was level, and give the goal. After all, when the law was changed 30 years ago to make level=onside, it was specific in the Lancashire FA guidelines for referees, and very probably in other similar publications too, that level meant to be judged by the human eye, not to fractions of an inch, and if a player appeared in nirmal human terms to be level, then he was level.
I'd still prefer a time limit, as in rugby. If you can't see a clear error within 30 seconds (as an example) then the onfield decision stands. It would stop a lot of the delay, but doesn't get round the fact you can't celebrate until kick-off, I hadn't discovered the forum when VAR came in, but were people generally in favour? There is undoubtedly merit in removing clear and obvious errors, it is whether the baggage that comes with it is acceptable.