Plans to roll out video technology in the Premier League next season could be jeopardised by a lack of support from clubs. A number are believed to have reservations and one chairman on Wednesday publicly declared his opposition.

The laws of the game are to change on Saturday to allow video assistant referees to be used throughout professional football, which would trigger a vote of England’s 20 elite teams the following month about bringing it in to the top flight from August.

Until recently, they had been expected to support it but some have begun to waver following the controversies that have dogged the trials in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup this year.

The chairman of Crystal Palace, Steve Parish, on Wednesday became the first voting official to reveal his intentions ahead of a ballot which will require a two-thirds majority for VAR to be used next season.

“I hate all of these games that stop and start, people looking at screens, and, ‘What’s going on?’, and, ‘It’s eight minutes’, and ‘Did he or didn’t he?’ And I think we’re going down an incredibly dangerous road with that,” said Parish.

Comparing sport to a soap opera, he added: “You’ve got the people who watch EastEnders every night; they know the plot and they know what’s going on. And then, on the edges, you’ve got people who watch it slightly less. And then you’ve got somebody, like me, who hasn’t watched it for eight years. But, if I tuned into EastEnders, I’d probably see a lot of the characters that I knew eight years ago and, probably, within 10 minutes, you’ve kind of caught up with it.