{"id":465072,"date":"2023-10-07T05:07:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T09:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465072"},"modified":"2023-10-07T05:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T09:09:42","slug":"postecoglou-critical-of-current-state-of-var","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/postecoglou-critical-of-current-state-of-var\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecoglou critical of current state of VAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the talk in the footballing world has surrounded Luiz Diaz&#8217;s controversially disallowed goal against Tottenham the past week.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of next week&#8217;s matchday Ange Postecoglou, whose team benefited from the entire saga, gave his thoughts on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs&#8217; boss was highly critical of the system and said he would ideally ditch as it is not ready to be implemented into the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would, in its current form. I just don&#8217;t think that technology&#8217;s ready for our game.&#8221; Postecoglou said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udccc &quot;We&#39;re trying to make [referees] the stars of the show.&quot;<br \/>\ud83d\udccc &quot;It was there for clear and obvious errors, it seems like everything now.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou calls for VAR to be scrapped following Liverpool&#39;s incorrectly disallowed goal against Tottenham \u26aa\u274c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pH3gI65afR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pH3gI65afR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1710546971855917335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got absolutely zero against goalline technology, that&#8217;s a no-brainer because that&#8217;s quite significant, but it works for our game,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just think our game is unique and I know people say, &#8216;well, let&#8217;s get referees explaining their decisions&#8217;. Oh my God. Seriously? Could you imagine sitting there listening to a referee explain every decision on the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the talk in the footballing world has surrounded Luiz Diaz&#8217;s controversially disallowed goal against Tottenham the past week. On the eve of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465073,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19708,16966],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19709,18152],"acf":{"announce":"The Spurs boss said he would love to ditch the system","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\/465072"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465076,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465072\/revisions\/465076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465072"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465072"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}