Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou bemoans use of VAR and ‘fixed erosion of referees’ authority’ | Football News

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has referred to as for an finish to the questioning of officers’ choices with the intention to forestall their authority being undermined.

Spurs had two gamers despatched off within the 4-1 defeat at dwelling to Chelsea – their first loss of the Premier League season – however refused to criticise referee Michael Oliver.

However, after a primary half which had 12 minutes added on as a consequence of a number of VAR checks, the Australian felt a quantity of incidents have led to an overuse of know-how.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta referred to as Newcastle’s successful purpose in opposition to his group after three VAR checks a “disgrace” on Saturday and the membership issued a press release calling for the usual of officiating to be “urgently addressed”.

“Decisions are decisions: you either accept it or you don’t,” Postecoglou advised Sky Sports.

“Some of it’s self-inflicted [but] if we’re going to exit and complain about dangerous choices each week what’s going to occur is what occurred at this time: a forensic research of each determination.

“I believe that is the way in which the sport goes. I do not prefer it – I might be a lone voice as I’m advised that is the way in which ahead. With VAR intervention it simply felt like rather a lot of standing round.

“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.”

When requested later in his press convention if he had been concerned in a crazier sport throughout his managerial profession, the Australian mentioned: “No, but I think it’s going to become the norm. It’s where the game is heading.

“I think it’s unfortunately how we’re going to have to watch and participate in football from now on. I’ve said it before that I don’t like it. I don’t like the standing around, I don’t like the theatre around waiting for decisions.

“But I do know that I’m within the wilderness on that. In my 26 years [as a manager], I used to be all the time prepared to simply accept the referee’s determination good, dangerous or in any other case. I’ve had some shockers in my profession let me inform you, and I’ve had some go my means as effectively.

“But I’d cop that because I just wanted the game to be played. But when we’re complaining about decisions every week, this is what’s going to happen. People are just going to forensically scrutinise everything to make sure they’re comfortable it’s right, and then even after that, we’re still not happy.

“What does that imply? It means we’ll see rather a lot of standing round. I simply suppose it is diminishing the authority of the referee.

“You can’t tell me the referee is in control of games now – they’re not. The control is outside of that, but that’s the way the game is going and you have to accept that and try to deal with it.”

‘I’m an previous man shouting on the clouds’

When pressed on whether or not there was assist from different managers and these on the membership to place strain on the Premier League to scrap VAR, Postecoglou mentioned: “There doesn’t seem to be a great call for us to go back to accepting the referee’s decision in the majority of cases.

“I perceive purpose line know-how. That’s a easy one as that got here in and nobody’s complained about it. But in trying to find this utopia the place there are not any incorrect choices in a sport… that does not exist and it by no means will.

“But it’s the road that everyone wants to go down. Some of it’s self-inflicted because we all complain about decisions every week. It’s nothing new, but in the past we got on with it. We didn’t find the need for a miracle cure for it.

“I don’t think that’s a viable option as we seemed to have opened that door and allowed technology in. Now, we want transparency and I can guarantee the next thing is we will have referees mic’d up explaining decisions.

“There’s lots of different sports activities you possibly can watch the place referees try this however I do not suppose it ought to be in soccer. But I’m within the wilderness on that one.

“Premier League managers should just manage their football clubs. I’ve never and I never will talk to referees about the rules of the game. I was taught that you grow up and you respect the officials.

“Now, managers search for methods to bend the principles. Tell me what the rule is, and I assure you should have a room full of managers processing ‘how can I get round this’.

“What I want are the best officials always being upskilled to officiate the game but it’s so hard for referees to officiate these days. Their authority is constantly getting diminished.

“I grew up afraid of referees like they had been policemen. I’m old skool, I’m from a bygone period. I similar to the purity of the sport however half of it’s my downside. I’ve bought to embrace it and discover a approach to work with it but it surely goes in opposition to the whole lot I would like from my group.

“I want my team to play fast, attacking, high tempo, go-at-it football. If we get a red card and a penalty against us, so what? Let’s cop it and let’s go again. But we have to stand around for two minutes to work out if someone was offside or not.

“Let the linesman make the choice. Remember when it was the profit of the doubt for the attacker? We all lived with it. The sport did not collapse. But I’m an previous man shouting on the clouds.”

Spurs had led by way of Dejan Kulusevski’s sixth-minute deflected purpose and had a second from Heung-min Son dominated out for offside by VAR.

But when Cristian Romero was despatched off for a problem on Enzo Fernandez which allowed Cole Palmer to equalise from the penalty spot the sport modified and a reckless second yellow card for Destiny Udogie early within the second half left the hosts with an uphill battle.

They held out till the seventy fifth minute when Nicolas Jackson scored the primary purpose of his hat-trick, including two extra deep into added time.

“It’s hard to analyse from a football perspective as you’re left with the result which is obviously disappointing,” added Postecoglou.

“We don’t like to lose, particularly here at home. I’m super proud of the players’ efforts, will, desire and determination to still get something out of the game.

“There’s the fall out from it from our perspective, personnel-wise which we’ll deal with in the coming days. Looking at Micky [van de Ven], you’d say it’s a pretty significant one so I assume he’ll be out for a little while. Madders [James Maddison] got a knock on the ankle so we’ll just have to assess how he is.”

Tottenham misplaced their self-discipline within the first half with Romero lucky to nonetheless be on the pitch even earlier than he was dismissed, however Postecoglou refused guilty his captain for the loss.

“He’s a physical guy and it’s part of his strengths,” mentioned Postecoglou, who was booked himself for leaving his technical space. “Today it was deemed that he went too far, so we’ve just got to cop it.”

Poch: We opened ourselves as much as this soccer

It was an absorbing conflict on Pochettino’s long-awaited return and whereas the focus will as soon as once more be on the officers, this was an necessary victory for the Chelsea boss who had sympathy for Postecoglou when his factors on VAR had been put to him.

“We are both frustrated,” mentioned Pochettino. “OK, one team won, the other lost. We wanted technology to arrive and now we can’t complain. When I first came here, I said I didn’t agree with VAR but now I support it. We have to find the right way to use it.

“Today, we performed 110 or 120 minutes. I do not know if it is now 1am or 2am within the morning! This is the soccer we opened ourselves as much as obtain. I do not know many coaches who needed it when it got here in.

“The balance is really difficult, but we all have to help each other to improve the game.”

Reflecting on his return to Tottenham, Pochettino mentioned: “I feel much better now after four years having had the possibility to come back and say hello to all the staff and the people that we didn’t have the chance to say goodbye.

“It’s a present for us. It’s very emotional however on the similar time, I believe the reminiscences you recognize are in your pores and skin. It was a passionate sport and a really aggressive sport. Being trustworthy, successful the three factors is basically necessary for us. It was an incredible day for us.”

Neville: PL must act and shield officers after ‘harmful’ membership VAR statements

Speaking forward of Spurs’ defeat to Chelsea on Monday Night Football, Gary Neville referred to as on the Premier League to behave and shield its referees after labelling the statements from Liverpool and Arsenal on VAR “dangerous”.

Arsenal urged the PGMOL to “urgently address the standard of officiating in the Premier League” in an unprecedented assertion for the membership, after Newcastle beat the Gunners by way of a controversial winner on Saturday.

Anthony Gordon’s second-half strike was sufficient to beat Mikel Arteta’s aspect regardless of a four-minute VAR examine to analyse three speaking factors with the purpose – whether or not the ball went out of play, a possible foul by Joelinton and an offside on Gordon.

There had been additionally controversial potential red-card incidents involving Kai Havertz and Bruno Guimaraes as temperatures reached boiling level at St James’ Park and it led to Arteta telling Sky Sports after the sport that the awarding of the purpose was a “disgrace” and “embarrassing” for the officers – and on Sunday, Arsenal got here out as a membership to assist the supervisor.

It follows an identical assertion from Liverpool after refereeing requirements within the Premier League as soon as once more got here beneath intense scrutiny after VAR admitted a mistake to rule out Luis Diaz’s ‘offside’ purpose for Liverpool at Tottenham in September.

Speaking on Monday Night Football, Gary Neville believes officers are being “significantly and seriously undermined” by statements from golf equipment, and he insists the Premier League must get powerful on this example.

“I thought the statement [from Arsenal] was really poor,” the previous Manchester United defender advised MNF. “I assumed the identical the opposite week.

“Liverpool had a shocking one go against them a few weeks ago at Spurs, and we knew it was wrong at the time. They had a lot to feel hard done by. But the following day when Liverpool wrote their statement mentioning sporting integrity, mentioning they were looking at all options and then the suggestion of a replay, I thought that was quite dangerous.

“The Arsenal assertion is kind of harmful.

“All clubs have signed up to a new behavioural charter at the start of the season. I’m not saying referees shouldn’t be put under pressure or that Mikel Arteta, and other managers, shouldn’t feel aggrieved at the end of matches. What I am saying is that the clubs themselves should behave better in these circumstances.

“I’m looking at the Premier League now and the leadership of the Premier League because the reality is they have got to start protecting referees,” Neville added.

“At the very beginning I was excited by the new transparency, the apologies to managers and the fact the referees were communicating to the clubs, but in return what they are getting is significantly and seriously undermined by their own clubs.

“The Premier League should get this so as. The different golf equipment should get the golf equipment which are writing these letters so as as a result of that is unchartered territory the concept of these letters being written and the statements.

“To me, it feels like Arteta has gone off on one on Saturday, which is fine because he’s emotional, and he’s almost gone to his board on the Sunday and said you need to back me. They’ve fallen for it.

“Arsenal is an establishment as a soccer membership. It’s an enormous, nice and fantastic soccer membership with large historical past. They ought to behave higher than that and whoever it’s that has sanctioned that assertion will really feel upset in just a few years.

“I do think the Premier League has to come down on their clubs. They have to say to them that they expect a lot better than this.”