Sources at IFAB, the body responsible for making the laws of the game, have little doubt that a meeting on Monday will ratify the system pretty much in its current form for formal inclusion into the rulebook, subject to what looks like being landslide approval at their AGM in March.

That would then give FIFA president Gianni Infantino the green light to make video replays part of this summer’s World Cup - although even with an unlikely ‘no’ vote from IFAB, FIFA could still push ahead and apply to use the system on a continuing trial basis in Russia.

Bottom line is, the game’s big players all want it. Even with the fuss at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte’s demands were for it to be made better, not scrapped.

Yesterday Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger joined in him heralding the technology’s inevitability.

“What you want is to improve the system that exists at the moment and we will contribute to improve it,” he said.

“There are some hiccups at the start of the functioning certainly and we need to clear up the way it works, yes I agree.

“Is that enough to renounce [the current system]? I would say no, I am still a fervent supporter of it and I believe we have to move forward with it and improve the system certainly, but we have to go with it.

“You cannot imagine that in the future it will not be used. We will have to find the proper way to do it, but it has to go that way.” Sadly, “hiccups” does not even touch some of the bellyaching that was going on among the perplexed Chelsea fans this week - and it was not their fault. Not enough is being done to educate followers of the game about what on earth is going on.

Viewers at home could at least see close-up shots of the match referee Graham Scott speaking into his headset - the only evidence available at all that VAR was even in use.

Rightly or wrongly, the message he received back from Premier League HQ was that he did not need to review any of his decisions to book three Chelsea players for simulation rather than award them penalties.

IFAB produce a secret document which runs to 60-pages on how to implement a VAR system which they insist is followed to the letter.

Every fine detail is covered about how to use it, only somebody seems to have forgotten the fans.

While the VAR is instructed to look again at each and every major incident, he should only speak to the match referee if he sees a problem. This “silent check” process leaves fans waiting expectantly for some sort of confirmation from “upstairs” that will never come.

Sources at IFAB say that while communication remains an issue, fans in countries where they have been trialling the system longer soon get used to this resolute silence. At least in England the system of a brief verbal check from the VAR - rather than being completely “silent” - puts the match official out of his suspense.

Although it has only been used in recent weeks in this country, VAR has been in use all season in Serie A, the Bundesliga and 13 other leagues worldwide.

In Italy, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri complained that the game was “turning into baseball” - although IFAB insist “there is no time pressure to review the decision quickly as accuracy is more important than speed”.

Although accuracy has also been in question in the States, when embarrassingly the decision to send off New England Revolution midfielder Xavier Kouassi using VAR was subsequently overturned on appeal.

In a magazine poll in Germany, 47 per cent of players were said to be in favour of ditching video technology completely, although IFAB attributes that to the particular circumstances in the country which eventually led to the head of VAR Hellmut Krug being sacked after accusations of bias.

Things have settled down, according to IFAB, in the last two matchdays since the resumption of the Bundesliga following the winter break - a period where the whole of German football had the luxury of some time to better understand the system.

Perhaps all that is needed in a little bit less fast forward and a good deal more slow motion - because nobody is about to hit the stop button.