Ange Postecoglou says his response to the booing Tottenham followers of their 1-0 defeat to Chelsea was misinterpreted.
Spurs followers chanted “you don’t know what you’re doing” at their under-fire boss as he changed Lucas Bergvall with Pape Sarr simply previous the hour with their crew trailing and but to register a shot on the right track.
When Sarr scored from vary simply 5 minutes later, Postecoglou turned to the Spurs followers and appeared to cup his ears in what was perceived by some to be a response to the boos. The objective was dominated out after a prolonged VAR examine.
However Postecoglou was bemused by this suggestion and insisted he simply needed the followers to benefit from the second, sensing that if the objective had counted the momentum of the sport would have turned for his crew.
Requested concerning the incident, the Spurs boss stated: “It is unimaginable how issues get interpreted. We simply scored, I simply needed to listen to them cheer.
“We have been by way of a troublesome time and I assumed it was a cracking objective. I needed them to get actually excited.
“I felt at that time we might doubtlessly go on and win the sport.I simply felt momentum was [going] our means.
“It doesn’t bother me. It’s not the first time they’ve booed my substitutions or my decisions. That’s fine, they’re allowed to do that, but we just scored a goal, we just scored an equaliser.”
Requested if he risked alienating the followers by having that response, Postecoglou added: “You know what? I’m at such a disconnect with the world these days that who knows, maybe you’re right. But that’s not what my intention was.”
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Postecoglou, who’s a vocal critic of VAR, was livid with the size of time referee Craig Pawson spent mulling over whether or not to provide Sarr’s objective.
The on-field official was despatched to his monitor after Sarr linked with the leg of Moises Caicedo within the moments simply earlier than his strike for what would have been Spurs’ equaliser.
It took referee Pawson 4 minutes to return to the choice that the objective must be overturned, which made Postecoglou query if it was a transparent and apparent error.
“Who cares if it’s a foul or not? There’s so many incidents that are very similar out there,” stated Postecoglou.
“What’s the point of having a referee there? Clear and obvious to me is you go to the screen, you see it, ‘Oh my God, I’ve missed that’.
“I imply, we’re all – not me, as a result of I am very vocal about it – however everybody accepts it. It will be refereed by AI fairly quickly.
“We may as well dispense with the players at some point. Some guy will come up with a genius way of just having a game of football with no participants because referees aren’t refereeing.”
“If anyone believes that when VAR was brought in that we would be sitting around for six minutes with a microscope, it’s irrelevant whether it’s a foul or not. It’s totally irrelevant.”
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Posteocglou advised there was an absence of consistency over decision-making as he seemingly referred to the choice to not award Everton centre-back James Tarkowski a purple card within the Merseyside derby after a VAR overview.
He added: “Jared Gillett was on VAR tonight. Maybe if Jared Gillett was on VAR last night, it would have been a different outcome because, again, it comes down, I guess, to everyone’s interpretation. But I don’t like it, mate. I never liked it.”
