“Unbelievable” As Hotspur manager expressed his intentions on VAR

Ange Postecoglou: ‘I would abolish VAR in its current form’Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou is said to be in favor of abandoning VAR altogether amid a wave of controversial calls at the start of the 2023-2024 season.

The Lilywhites took advantage of a serious refereeing error during last weekend’s 2-1 win over Liverpool, with Luis Diaz having a first-half goal wrongly disallowed for offside.VAR official Darren England apparently did not notice that the linesman’s flag had been raised on the pitch and immediately told Simon Hooper “full control” as the 2D lines showed Diaz clearly behind Cristian Romero.

 

England were only made aware of their error once play restarted following a Spurs free-kick, and the PGMOL admitted there had been “significant human error” in north London before releasing a two-minute audio clip published discussions of the referees. .Before Diaz’s disallowed goal, Hooper also upgraded a yellow card for Curtis Jones’ challenge on Yves Bissouma to a red using the monitor, but Postecoglou does not believe football is “ready” for such technology. Asked if he would scrap VAR at Friday’s press conference, Postecoglou replied: “I would in its current form.

I just don’t think the technology is ready for our game,” cited by football.london.”I have nothing, I have absolutely no chance against goal line technology, that’s a given because it’s pretty important, but it works for our game. I just think our game is unique and I know people are saying, “Let’s go.” Let’s let the refs explain their decisions – oh my God. Seriously? “Can you imagine sitting there and listening to a referee explain every decision in the match? I go to the field on Sunday, I love it, I love American football. It’s half past three, buddy. Do you want to sit and listen for three and a half hours?“I mean, referees, you never measure who is a good referee, and we try to make them the stars of the show.” They’re just people, we’re trying to take advantage of that.

“There’s nothing wrong with that, we try to work within what we’re given, but I think with VAR at the moment we think it’s going to disappear… and the more we use it, the worse I think.” will be.”In addition to Diaz’s unfairly disallowed goal, a Premier League panel reportedly concluded that Diogo Jota, who was also sent off for two challenges at Destiny Udogie, should not have been sent off last weekend.The jury is said to have voted 3-2 to wrongly award Jota’s second yellow card, and although Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp did not directly call for a replay, he said such a result would be “the right thing to do “. “.Postecoglou, however, does not believe that a single error does not justify a repetition, otherwise there would be “365 games a year”. He adds: “I think Jurgen said he might have been taken a little out of context.“My opinion is that when it comes to repetition there has to be some sort of threshold and I don’t think one mistake is a threshold for that, regardless of the consequences.

If we fall from integrity or if we abuse the law, then maybe you have a reason to say, “Well, you know what, there’s something there. » But in the end, if you take it all back, it was a mistake, that’s all.“It was a one-time mistake. People made “an unprecedented mistake” and I agree with that, but it was still a mistake. So if the replay limit is individual player errors, I think that’s 365 games per year.Amid the refereeing drama, Tottenham remained unbeaten against the Reds in the new season thanks to Son Heung-min’s opener and Joel Matip’s own goal either side of Cody Gakpo’s equalizer.The Lilywhites sit second in the table with 17 points and could now take the lead ahead of Manchester City with victory over Luton Town on Saturday lunchtime.

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