According to BBC Sport, there's a curious mismatch between what the numbers show and what fans perceive. The World Cup has seen more VAR reviews than the Premier League so far this season, yet the prevailing impression suggests the opposite. It's a reminder that statistics don't always match perception — and that how we experience a technology can depend less on its frequency and more on the context in which it appears, or the narrative we've already formed around it.

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