Ange Postecoglou admits Spurs benefited from howler Ware last week but still believes his current form is harmful. for the game Photo: ASHLEY WESTERN/Colorsport/Shutterstock
Ange Postecoglou has rejected Jurgen Klopp's desire to replay Tottenham's win over Liverpool, but believes Var should be cancelled.
Klopp said this week that «The only result» of Ware's error, which ruled out Luis Diaz's goal in last Saturday's defeat to Liverpool, «should be a replay.»
The Liverpool manager has since insisted that he and his team have «lived through it» and Tottenham head coach Postecoglou has weighed in on the matter, saying he fears technology could ruin the game he loves.
“I think when you talk about a replay there has to be some threshold and I don't think a mistake is the threshold for that, regardless of the consequences,” said Postecoglou, whose Tottenham team travel to Luton. City on Saturday.
«If we stray from fairness or misappropriation of the law, then maybe you have a reason to say, 'Well, you know what, there's something to it.' It was. It was a unique mistake, people used [the words] “unprecedented mistake,” and I agree with that, but it was still a mistake. So if your threshold for replays is individual mistakes, I think that's 365 games a year.»
Postcoglou admitted after the Liverpool game that he wasn't a big fan of Ware and asked Friday, whether he will To justify the need to get rid of it, the 58-year-old man replied: “I would do it in its current form.”
“I just don’t think the technology is ready for our game. I have nothing against goal line technology, absolutely nothing, it's not difficult because it's very important and it works for our game.
“I just think our game is unique and I know that people they say, “Let’s make judges explain their decisions—oh my God.” Seriously? Can you imagine sitting there and listening to the referee explain every decision in the game? On Sunday I go to the football field, I like it, I love American football. That's 3.5 hours, buddy. Do you want to sit through three and a half hours listening to [the judges]?
“The indicator of who was a good referee was something you never noticed, and [now] we're trying to make them the stars of the show. We analyze yellow cards in slow motion.”
Postecoglou acknowledged that players and coaches make life difficult for officials and fears technology will have an even greater negative impact on football the more it is relied on.< /p
«We players and coaches are the worst culprits because we talk about fairness and all that stuff, but watch a football game tonight, any game, first throw-in, I bet you both teams are appealing to that,» he said . “When one knows that it is not theirs. And if you receive it, you won’t say: “Oh, it wasn’t ours, it was theirs.” Give it to them.» It's just people, we're trying to take advantage of it. There is nothing wrong with this, we try to work within the framework of what is given to us.
“But right now I just think the more we use it, the worse it will be. There were clear and obvious mistakes, but now everything seems to be fine. Yellow cards, fouls, corners — everything is carefully checked. It's not our game, we're not rugby, we don't have stoppages like that.
“What I've always loved about England is the frantic pace of football. Why are we trying to get rid of this? I think part of the effect of last week was that none of us liked it when they took so long to make a decision and it seemed like they were rushing into a decision. This suggests that I don't think the technology in its current form is suitable for our game.»
Postecoglou said Var hasn't deprived him of his enjoyment of football just yet, but is wary of what else will happen in the future.
«This is probably the only time I'm happy to be 58 and not 38.» » he added. «I don't know what the game will look like in 20 years, and I'm not sure I'll like the way it's going.
“I've always liked the fact that there's more to our game shortcomings. Usually the goals were the result of either a combination of brilliance or some shortcoming of someone else. Player, coach, referee, something happened and a goal was scored.
“We try to clear it all up by trying turn it into something that I don't think is our game. That's not what I like about football. I like the imperfect nature of it.
«When you sit and analyze every little decision “and it seems like we're going down the path where people just want every decision to be right — then it'll slow the game down and there will usually be more interruptions and they'll take away what I love about the game.”
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