Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou has known as for an finish to the questioning of officers’ selections so as to forestall their authority being undermined.
Spurs had two gamers despatched off in the 4-1 defeat – their first loss of the Premier League season – at home to Chelsea however refused to criticise referee Michael Oliver.
However, after a primary half which had 12 minutes added on due to a number of VAR checks, the Australian felt numerous incidents have led to an overuse of expertise.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta known as Newcastle’s profitable objective towards his staff after three VAR checks a “disgrace” on Saturday and the membership issued a press release calling for the commonplace of officiating to be “urgently addressed”.
“Decisions are decisions: you either accept it or you don’t,” Postecoglou advised Sky Sports.
“Some of it is self-inflicted (but) if we are going to go out and complain about bad decisions every week what will happen is what happened today: a forensic study of every decision.
Some of it is self-inflicted (but) if we are going to go out and complain about bad decisions every week what will happen is what happened today: a forensic study of every decision
Ange Postecoglou
“I think that’s the way the game is going. I don’t like it – I could be a lone voice as I’m told that’s the way forward. With VAR intervention it just felt like a lot of standing around.
“At some point we have to accept the referee’s decision. This constant erosion of referees’ authority, this is what the game is going to get: they will not have any authority, it is going to get diminished and we are going to be in the control of someone a few miles away watching a TV screen.”
Spurs had led via Dejan Kulusevski’s sixth-minute deflected objective and had a second from Son Heung-min dominated out for offside by VAR.
But when Cristian Romero was despatched off for a problem on Enzo Fernandez which allowed Cole Palmer to equaliser from the penalty spot the sport modified and a reckless second yellow card for Destiny Udogie early in the second half left the hosts with an uphill battle.
They held out till the seventy fifth minute when Nicolas Jackson scored the first objective of his hat-trick, including two extra deep into added time.
“It’s pretty hard to process because it’s almost impossible to analyse the game,” added Postecoglou.
“You’re left disappointed with the result but proud of the efforts of the players and that is the positive we will take out of it.”
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