The team has been let loose from VAR so know what they can get away with? Premiership teams are being brought up on pressurising the officials because VAR will either support it or slow the decision down by the Ref. If you take Citys game and Hamer incident Cook could see that Evans was about to be sent off for his challenge on Dabo as he was out of control so he antagonised Hamer to take the focus off it and unfortunetly Hamer fell for it. The Ref then went into melt down after so much shite in his ear piece and players gobbing off at him his decision was watered down to give Evans a yellow (Game Over)