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Ange Postecoglou said VAR is \u201cdiminishing the authority\u201d of referees after Tottenham\u2019s 4-1 home defeat to Chelsea featured nine separate checks leading to 21 minutes of added time.<\/p>\n
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Spurs fell to their first Premier League loss of the season despite taking an early lead through Dejan Kulusevski as Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie were sent off either side of half-time.<\/p>\n
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Cole Palmer equalised with a 35th-minute penalty after Romero was dismissed on a VAR review for a late tackle on Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez before Udogie saw a second yellow for a lunge on Raheem Sterling.<\/p>\n
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Chelsea struggled to break down Tottenham\u2019s nine-man team until Nicolas Jackson struck a hat trick in the final 15 minutes to give Mauricio Pochettino a victory on his first return to Spurs after being sacked by the club in November 2019.<\/p>\n
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Asked about the heavy use of VAR on the night, which also saw five goals disallowed, Postecoglou said: \u201cI don\u2019t like it. I don\u2019t like the standing around. I don\u2019t like the whole theatre around waiting for decisions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut I know that I am in the wilderness with that one. I\u2019m kind of on my own. In my 26 years, I was always prepared to accept the referee\u2019s decision good, bad or otherwise, and I\u2019ve had some shockers in my career, let me tell you.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve had some go my way as well, but I just want the game to be played. But when we are complaining about decisions every week, this is what\u2019s going to happen. People are going to forensically scrutinise everything to make sure that they are comfortable, it is right, and even at the end of that we are still not happy.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo what does that mean? It means we are going to see a lot of standing around. I just think it is diminishing the authority of the referee. You can\u2019t tell me that referees are in control of the games. They\u2019re not. The control is outside of that. But that\u2019s the way the game\u2019s going and you have to accept that and just try and get on with it.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt seems like there isn\u2019t a great call for us to go back to accepting the referee\u2019s decisions for the majority. I understand goal-line technology because that\u2019s a simple one. That came in and no one\u2019s complained about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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