Adrian Durham lashes out at Henry Winter's reaction to Aune Heggebo ban

Aune Heggebo's two-match suspension at West Brom has re-ignited debate on VAR in the Championship.

The Football Association found the Baggies hitman successfully deceived the match official after his handball goal against Norwich.

The Norwegian will miss the league clash with Burnley and the Carabao Cup game against Newcastle United, but the wider implications are the real concern.

The outcome has led to Henry Winter to question whether talk around VAR being brought to the second tier should be revived.

There have already been attempts to implement it, but they were rejected by the clubs involved in the division.

However, talkSPORT presenter Adrian Durham is not having any of that, which caused a heated debate on social media.

Aune Heggebo incident sparks heated VAR debate

Winter believes that the incident will bring the conversation about VAR in the second tier back.

Taking to X on Thursday, he said: "This will add to the debate about whether there should be VAR in the Championship.

"Technology would have caught what the FA calls Aune Heggebo’s 'deception of a match official'."

Durham lashed out and believes that there is no debate on the matter, and supporters do not want it.

Responding to the post on his own X account, he retorted, saying: "There is no debate about bringing VAR into the championship.

"Fans don't want it so if you care about football you should stop going on about it.

"And having done a Book Club Show with Michail Antonio recently he believes most players would get rid of it."

The debate will likely rage on, but the clubs that it affects have already made their positions clear.

Why did West Brom and other Championship clubs previous reject VAR?

The video assistant referee technology has proved controversial in the divisions that it used in.

Fans often have to wait too long for decisions to be confirmed, which ruins celebrations and the raw emotion that makes the beautiful game.

Decisions are also not guaranteed to be right, even with the video assistance, as they are still subjective calls.

The Football League not having it makes the game more authentic and leaves the emotion in tact, with clubs clearly feeling the same way.

They rejected the the chance to implement VAR in the division in April, albeit a slimmed down version which would have given managers two challenges.

The BBC claim that the idea is not likely to be revisited at the end of this season, and the idea is firmly closed off.

While the Heggebo incident does bring it into focus, and Winter is right that it would have avoided this mess, supporters do not want it, so Durham is also correct.

Ultimately, there is too much controversy around the system to have it implemented anytime soon, and the league is better without it.