Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou admits he isn’t a fan of VAR and insists the know-how continues to be weak to errors due to ‘human error’.
Spurs’ 2-1 win over Liverpool within the Premier League on Saturday got here after VAR upgraded Curtis Jones’ first-half yellow card to a crimson after which disallowed a wonderfully good aim scored by Luis Diaz following a monumental mix-up.
“I feel I am on document saying that I’ve by no means actually been a fan of it because it got here in,” Postecoglou instructed reporters after the sport.
“Not for some other motive than I feel that it complicates areas of the sport that I assumed have been fairly clear previously, however I can see on the similar time why it was inevitable that know-how would are available in. We now have to take care of it.
Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp was essential of VAR after the sport, however Postecoglou insists errors are regular – with or with out the know-how.
“The sport is affected by historic refereeing selections that weren’t proper, however all of us accepted that it was a part of the sport as a result of we’re coping with human beings,” he mentioned.
“I feel that individuals are below the misunderstanding that VAR goes to be errorless. I do not assume there’s any know-how as a result of a lot of our sport is not factual. It is all the way down to interpretation, they usually’re nonetheless human beings.
“While you put such a excessive bar on one thing, it invariably goes to fail, so if individuals are pondering that VAR goes to be one thing that sooner or later that’s good, that is by no means going to occur.”
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