It's just a human error - Ange Postecoglu on listening to the VAR audio - video Dailymotion

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu on listening to the VAR audio and the human error made in their game against Liverpool

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00:00 As I said, it's a significant error, but it's a human being that's made an error.

00:03 I don't think that there's anything that needs to go too far reaching.

00:09 I guess everyone just wants to make sure what happened doesn't happen again.

00:14 And when you listen to the audio, I mean, I'm no expert in these things.

00:17 And that's the other thing, don't ask managers and players about the rules of the game.

00:22 We don't know half of them.

00:23 The referees do.

00:25 We shouldn't be commenting on it, because if a referee commented on the tactics of a game,

00:28 we'd all be jumping up and down as well.

00:30 At some point, we've got to respect their position.

00:32 And look, I'm not one that hasn't complained about decisions in the past,

00:36 and I probably will in the future.

00:37 But in the prism of that, if they're made on the back of mistakes, then that's part of,

00:43 like I said, it's part of our game.

00:45 It's not supposed to be flawless.

00:49 As I say, players, managers make mistakes.

00:52 Referees at times will make mistakes.

00:55 But from my perspective, when I listened to that audio, I just thought, well,

00:58 saying check complete, somebody obviously thought that's a good way of finalising things,

01:05 and it's worked up until now.

01:06 But I would have thought the logical thing would say, goal for Liverpool, and there isn't anything.

01:10 But I'm saying that with the ignorance of not knowing how it's really set up.

01:15 But I think when you listen to that, you probably go,

01:18 there's probably better ways of communicating a clear decision in such a big situation.

01:24 And I'm hoping that's what they're addressing, not the individual who made the mistake.

01:28 Because I think that's a dereliction of the game.

01:31 That's like me hanging out a player to dry just because he made a mistake.

01:35 My role is to go in there and help that player improve, not to say, well, you're never playing again.