{"id":464301,"date":"2023-10-03T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464301"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:31:30","slug":"guardiola-officials-vars-must-be-more-humble","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-officials-vars-must-be-more-humble\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola: Officials, VARs must be more \u2018humble\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester City head coach shares referees and VARs are in jeopardy of taking the spotlight while encouraging officials to &#8220;step back&#8221; after the controversy during the Reds loss to the Spurs on Saturday in London.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u201cI\u2019m not a professional at that, and I\u2019m not involved and I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola when asked how he would improve VAR to help remove the errors. \ud83d\udcad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HNeFTM4o8n\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HNeFTM4o8n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football Daily (@footballdaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballdaily\/status\/1709217976317055382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The referees in the Premier League are the main topic in the football world after Luis D\u00edaz&#8217;s goal for Liverpool against Tottenham was incorrectly not given after inadequate communication between VAR Darren England and on-field official Simon Hooper.<\/p>\n<p>Pep admits he can understand the Reds\u2019 shock and advises officials to be \u201ehumbler\u201c and allow the spotlight to stay on the footballers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must create a system where the main focus is the players and the football itself,&#8221; the Sky Blues manager claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all the countries, not just in the U.K. The officials and the VARs are the leading roles. And the Oscar goes to&#8230; they have to allow the attention to be where it belongs \u2013 on the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester City head coach shares referees and VARs are in jeopardy of taking the spotlight while encouraging officials to &#8220;step back&#8221; after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":464302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18072,17183,17412],"news_category":[142,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18073,18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"Pep thinks that referees should be more careful.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464305,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464301\/revisions\/464305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464301"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464301"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}