Angry Postecoglou continues VAR complaints

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou was near fuming contempt their 3-1 Premier League triumph implicit Southampton connected Sunday aft the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) took astir 5 minutes to chalk disconnected a Spurs extremity for offside.

Lucas Bergvall thought helium had made it 2-0 from a set-piece successful the 33rd infinitesimal erstwhile helium recovered the bottommost corner, but VAR ruled retired the effort for a marginal offside aft a cheque lasting 4 minutes and 50 seconds.

While impatient fans booed, Postecoglou was seen flipping an imaginary coin and playing rock-paper-scissors, arsenic if to connote that it was each down to luck.

"If you told maine a fewer years agone that we would beryllium spending 5 minutes during a shot crippled lasting astir I would ne'er person believed you," Postecoglou told reporters.

"They gully those lines [to cheque for offside] -- is anyone convinced by those? This is not a flimsy connected anyone... but the information we're waiting 5 minutes, I truly don't deliberation that's what exertion was brought successful for.

"I deliberation it's gone excessively acold down the roadworthy for anyone to claw it back. We utilized to let the assistants to marque those decisions and we each accepted it."

The 59-year-old manager said offside decisions were ne'er meant to beryllium "microscopically adjudged" and that helium would invited specified decisions being made instantaneously.

The Premier League said semi-automated offside exertion volition beryllium utilized for the archetypal clip aboriginal this period pursuing palmy investigating successful the FA Cup.

"I conscionable can't judge that this is what we brought it successful for, to basal astir for 5 minutes for thing that successful the extremity is still, successful my presumption anyway, inconclusive," Postecoglou added.