Postecoglou insists he is 'not a fan' of VAR despite it working in Spurs' favour

Ange Postecoglou refused to get drawn on Jurgen Klopp's comments about the officiating in Liverpool's loss at Tottenham, but the Spurs boss reiterated his dislike of VAR.

Even though it worked in Tottenham's facvour that Luis Diaz had a goal ruled out erroneously for offside in the first-half, a mistake admitted by the refereeing governing body PGMOL, Postecoglou says he has never liked VAR.

'I think I'm on record as saying that I've never really been a fan of it since it came in,'said the former Celtic manager.

'Not for any other reason than I think that it complicates areas of the game that I thought were pretty clear in the past, but I can see at the same time why it was inevitable that technology would come in.

'We have to deal with it. The biggest problem I think that we have is that we seem to fail to grasp is that no form of technology is going to make the game errorless. We used to understand that errors were part of the game, including officiating errors.

'You'd have to cop it and some people would cop it better than others but that was part of the game. The game is littered with historical refereeing decisions that weren't right but we all accepted it that it was part of the game because we're dealing with human beings.'

The PGMOL statement afterwards admitted that disallowing the Diaz goal was down to 'human error' and was 'a clear and obvious error that should have resulted in a goal.'

Postecoglou continued: 'I think that people are under the misconception that VAR is going to be errorless. I don't think there's any technology, because so much of our game isn't factual.

'It's down to interpretation and they're still human beings. They're going to make mistakes the same way managers make mistakes, the same way