Tottenham boss Postecoglou: I don't like VAR - but it's where people want to take the game

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7 Nov 2023 • 7:57 AM MYT
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Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou slammed the culture of VAR after defeat at home to Chelsea.

Spurs lost 4-1, with VAR denying five goals on the night. Blues manager Mauricio Pochettino later suggested an extra 22 minutes had been played because of the technology's intervention.

Postecoglou said: "There was a fair bit going on, a lot of VAR intervention, a hard game for me to analyse but I am very proud of the players. Right to the end they were trying to create something for us.

"The players couldn't give any more than they did, part of this game is will, effort and determination and they showed that."

On VAR decisions and time taken to make them, he added: "I don't like it, it is the way the game is going. Some of it is self inflicted because if we come out every week complaining about decision that is what will happen, every decision gets forensically checked and we will be sitting around for a long time in every game trying to figure out what is going on.

"I don't like it but I am probably in the wilderness with that because I keep getting told that's where we want to go. I am too old school, I'll respect the referee's decision right or wrong. But it is the way the game is going."