Spurs' Ange: Cupped ear 'mistake' caused VAR

Ange Postecoglou has said helium is "falling retired of emotion with football" aft admitting helium made a mistake successful celebrating Pape Matar Sarr's disallowed extremity against Tottenham, but not due to the fact that helium risked a instrumentality backlash.

Spurs mislaid 1-0 astatine Chelsea connected Thursday but Sarr had a second-half onslaught ruled retired for VAR. Postecoglou's determination to bring connected Sarr for Lucas Bergvall was booed by immoderate travelling Tottenham supporters who besides concisely chanted "you don't cognize what you're doing" astatine the 59-year-old.

Postecoglou responded by cupping his ear successful their absorption erstwhile Sarr scored, lone for the extremity to beryllium chalked disconnected aft a lengthy VAR check.

Spurs fell to their 16th league decision of the play and Postecoglou appeared to bent backmost astatine full-time alternatively than prosecute with the distant fans, hinting astatine a fractious relationship which places further unit connected his position.

However, astatine a quality league connected Friday, Postecoglou chose to absorption his attraction connected the interaction VAR is having aft determination were 12 minutes of added clip astatine the extremity of Thursday's crippled with Chelsea besides having a extremity ruled retired arsenic Moisés Caicedo's volley came aft replays showed Levi Colwill was offside successful the build-up.

"Maybe I was influenced by England and the aged First Division," helium said. "What I loved astir it arsenic opposed to different leagues was the frenetic gait of it. In English football, determination was ever thing happening.

"I loved that and it has influenced maine a batch successful presumption of the benignant of shot I similar to watch. There are plentifulness of different leagues I could person watched. End-to-end stuff, not a batch of teams trying to clasp onto wins. It was conscionable everyone going for it. It was the velocity and tempo that I loved.

"I've tried to plan a gameplan that has tempo and vigor due to the fact that I consciousness if you privation radical successful determination for an hr and a fractional of amusement and engagement, you privation them disconnected their seats. There was 12 minutes of other clip past night. VAR was not brough successful past month. It has been present for a agelong clip and it is inactive taking 12 minutes.

"Everyone says 'they came to the close to decision', well, yeah. That's what radical privation then. Let's continue. I don't similar it. I americium falling retired of emotion with the crippled due to the fact that I emotion celebrating goals. Last nighttime I did and I'm paying a monolithic terms for it. I'll marque definite I don't bash it again but I reckon that's benignant of sad.

"I americium the lone voice. I don't perceive anyone other saying it. That's wherefore I americium sat present and saying possibly I americium disconnected. I don't deliberation anyone other cares. We're conscionable truthful accepting. Maybe I travel from a antithetic procreation wherever we utilized to obstruction against anyone who tried to alteration the fundamentals of our life.

"It is bittersweet for maine due to the fact that I americium a lone dependable but I don't deliberation it is bittersweet for the crippled due to the fact that I conjecture radical privation that. I've got to judge it. When I bash yet retire, I volition astir apt ticker little shot and effort and find different hobby."

Asked again astir his ear-cupping celebration, which stands arsenic the lates successful a bid of incidents successful which fans person voiced their anger, Postecoglou said: "I get that seems to beryllium the main talking constituent retired of past night.

"People thin to absorption connected the internals of Tottenham alternatively than the externals. I made a mistake past nighttime successful that I celebrated a goal.

"Since VAR came successful here, determination were 4 oregon 5 incidents wherever we were lasting astir successful Scotland and I thought I americium not truly going to observe goals. There's nary constituent due to the fact that you've got to wait.

"Last night, I conscionable felt we needed something, cracking extremity from Pape [Matar Sarr], I heard the supporters weren't blessed with my decision, which is good and my effect was to celebrate, get them to marque immoderate sound and get down the team. I felt it was a existent momentum shifter, that moment.

"My mistake was celebrating a goal, VAR defeated maine again. I won't beryllium doing that again."

Sources person told ESPN that Postecoglou is astatine hazard of losing his occupation if Spurs exit the Europa League against Eintracht Frankfurt -- their two-legged quarterfinal clash begins adjacent Thursday -- and helium added: "I've been warring my full career. I'll proceed to combat until I'm told to halt by someone. I inactive judge we've got a monolithic accidental for ourselves this twelvemonth and I'm not going to fto that gaffe distant whether that's from outer oregon interior pressure. I'm focused connected that.

"I consciousness similar radical privation maine to accidental thing that volition someway alteration the temper of the fans. I've conscionable ne'er done that. I've ne'er felt that's my role. My relation is to nutrient teams and get the fanbase down what we're doing.

"It is not antithetic they are frustrated and aggravated and the infinitesimal but astatine the aforesaid clip if anyone looked astatine that crippled and thought they weren't trying, that they had resigned themselves to their fate, I'm sorry, they are not watching the close game.

"The players are warring bony and nail to effort and code our issues wrong a existent hard play and effort to instrumentality this monolithic accidental that's up of us."