Klopp calls for Spurs vs Liverpool replay after VAR error: ‘It is unprecedented’

Jurgen Klopp calls for Spurs vs Liverpool to be replayed after ‘unprecedented' VAR errorPA

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00:00 Yes, it was a mistake, an obvious mistake.

00:03 And I think there would have been solutions for it afterwards.

00:09 If not, I can say immediately,

00:12 probably some people don't want me to say, but not as a manager of Liverpool so

00:17 much more as a football person, I think the only outcome should be a replay.

00:24 That's how it is, probably will not happen.

00:28 The argument against that will probably be if we open that gate,

00:32 then everybody will ask for it.

00:34 I think the situation is that unprecedented that it didn't happen before,

00:40 in that moment, and we're all used, I'm 56 years old, and

00:43 I'm since 50 years in football, and I'm absolutely used.

00:46 I don't deal always well with it, but I'm used to wrong decisions,

00:52 difficult decisions, all these kind of things.

00:54 But something like that, as far as I can remember, never happened.

00:59 And that's why I think a replay would be the right thing.

01:01 And against the argument would be if it would happen again,

01:05 I think a replay would be the right thing to do.

01:06 Or the ref has the opportunity to bring both coaches together and say, sorry,

01:13 we made a mistake, but we can sort it.

01:17 Let Liverpool score a goal and we start from there.