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Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou has questioned whether VAR is having a positive impact on football and admitted he would get rid of the technology in its current form.<\/p>\n
The fallout of Spurs\u2019 controversial 2-1 win over Liverpool last weekend continues after Jurgen Klopp suggested on Wednesday a replay would be the right outcome before he insisted a day later the matter was over for the club.<\/p>\n
It comes after the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) admitted a \u201csignificant human error\u201d occurred when the 34th-minute strike by Luis Diaz was incorrectly ruled out for offside after miscommunication by VAR operator Darren England, who was under the impression the on-field decision had been to award the goal, to referee Simon Hooper.<\/p>\n
Postecoglou was quizzed on whether he would get rid of VAR, he said: \u201cI would in its current form. I just don\u2019t think that technology\u2019s ready for our game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got absolutely zero against goal-line technology, that\u2019s a no-brainer because that\u2019s quite significant, but it works for our game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think our game is unique and I know people say well let\u2019s get referees explaining their decisions. Oh my God. Seriously? Could you imagine sitting there listening to a referee explain every decision on the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to the Gridiron on Sunday, I love it, I love American football. It\u2019s three-and-a-half hours mate. Do you want to sit through three-and-a-half hours of listening?<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think with VAR at the moment, we think it\u2019s going to eliminate (errors) and the more we use it, I think the worse it\u2019s going to get.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not rugby, we don’t have those stoppages. What I always loved about England was the frenetic pace of football<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was there for the clear and obvious error. It seems like everything now. Yellow cards, fouls, corners, everything\u2019s getting scrutinised. It\u2019s not our game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not rugby, we don\u2019t have those stoppages. What I always loved about England was the frenetic pace of football.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are we trying to take that out? Now, I think part of the consequence of last week was that none of us liked it when they were taking so long to make a decision and it sounded like last week they were rushing into a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat suggests to me that I don\u2019t think the technology in its current form is suitable to our game, but I know I will be in a minority with that and my role within that is to accept that whatever my feelings are on it, ultimately, there\u2019s still going to be an arbitrator of decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postecoglou has consistently insisted he is not a fan of VAR and expressed fears for what football may look like in years to come if technology interferes more and more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is probably the only time I\u2019m happy I\u2019m 58 and not 38. I don\u2019t know what the game is going to look like in 20 years\u2019 time and I\u2019m not sure I would like it with the way it\u2019s going,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always loved the fact that our game has more flaws in it. The uniqueness of our game is the goal is so hard to get. We always focus around that.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually goals came from either a combination of brilliance or some flaws by someone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to sanitise all that by trying to make it into something that I just don\u2019t think is our game. That\u2019s not what I\u2019ve loved about football. I\u2019ve loved the imperfect nature of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re sitting there analysing every little decision \u2013 and it seems we\u2019re going that way where people just want every decision to be right \u2013 then that will slow down the game invariably, there will be more interruptions and they\u2019ll take away from what I love about the game.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Postecoglou played down Klopp\u2019s claims earlier this week about replaying the fixture.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI think Jurgen\u2019s said that and maybe that was taken a little bit out of context.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy view is when you\u2019re talking about a replay, there\u2019s got to be some sort of threshold and I don\u2019t think a mistake is a threshold for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a unique mistake, people have used an unprecedented mistake and I agree with that, but it was still a mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if your threshold for replays is mistakes by individuals, that\u2019s 365 games a year, I reckon.\u201d<\/p>\n