Arsene Wenger got pretty animated when he was asked about the introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) to football ahead of Arsenal’s match at home to Manchester City.

• VAR was used in France v Spain (0-2)
• VAR aided the referee twice during the friendly match
• Wenger has always been an advocate for VAR

During his presser, Wenger admitted that he watched the international friendly between Spain and France where video technology was tested this week and he can’t believe football has been so stupid by not introducing it sooner.

In fact, the Frenchman seemed really peeved about it.

“Look, I watched the game against Spain and I moved up after the game and thought ‘we are really stupid, why did that not happen 15 years ago?’,” Wenger said.

“That shows just that the football world is still a regressive world that is scared to move forward and I believe that that should have happened a long, long time ago.

“Personally, I always was in favour of it and I said always that the first thing to deal with is the offsides and the game has shown that. If we just look at the many impacts on that, in the game it shows that first of all that you would have gone to completely different conclusions if you did not have video, because France would have won the game.

“Secondly, I believe as well it will of course create more justice and the second just by coincidence of the two, is that the two incidents were in favour of the home team.

“The third thing I think is that it will definitely cut out all the interference and desire to corrupt referees. That exists in the world, you know. This kind of video will be a very good plan to fight against that as well.”

Considering the amount of incorrect refereeing decisions Arsenal have had awarded against then during Wenger’s tenure, you can probably understand why he feels so strongly.

Watch for yourself.