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<\/div>\nTottenham boss Ange Postecoglou would like to banish the video assistant referee system \u201cin its current form\u201d.<\/p>\n
Spurs benefited from VAR officials failing to overturn a wrongly flagged offside decision when Luis Diaz scored for Liverpool with their match at 0-0.<\/p>\n
Postecoglou\u2019s side won last Saturday\u2019s game 2-1 after an injury-time own goal.<\/p>\n
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Asked whether he would get rid of VAR, the Spurs manager said: \u201cI would, in its current form. I just don\u2019t think that technology\u2019s ready for our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Referees\u2019 body PGMOL\u00a0released the audio\u00a0of discussions between the match officials around Diaz\u2019s disallowed goal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Video assistant referee Darren England said the check was \u201cperfect\u201d, before swearing when he realised a mistake had been made.<\/p>\n
From this weekend, PGMOL said VARs will confirm the outcome of any decisions with their assistant VARs before notifying the on-field officials to prevent a repeat mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got absolutely zero against goalline technology, that\u2019s a no-brainer because that\u2019s quite significant, but it works for our game,\u201d added Postecoglou.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think our game is unique and I know people say, \u2018well, let\u2019s get referees explaining their decisions\u2019. Oh my God. Seriously? Could you imagine sitting there listening to a referee explain every decision on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postecoglou drew a comparison between refereeing in football and how NFL officials communicate, and how long that can take.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to the gridiron on Sunday, I love it, I love American football,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\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
\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
What does Postecoglou think of a replay against Liverpool?<\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said\u00a0replaying the game against Spurs would be \u201cthe right thing to do\u201d because of the unprecedented nature of the mistake made by the VAR.<\/p>\n BBC Sport understands there is no prospect of the Premier League considering a replay.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Jurgen\u2019s said that and maybe that was taken a little bit out of context,\u201d said Postecoglou.<\/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 <\/p>\n