Trust, VAR and Monday Night Controversy

I just love this man's [Ange Postecoglou] press conferences, they are so educational for our fans, although I doubt many are actually learning.

Trust.

When a manager or new Head Coach comes into a club, they have to gain the trust of the chairman and board employing them.

You employ on hope, having done as much due diligence, analysis and crystal ball thinking as you can.

Simon Jordan has discussed this from an owner and chairman's point of view.

He says, the first player or players a manager brings in, MUST be a success to build trust.

If they are successful, then the chairman feels better about relying on the manager's judgement.

However, if they fail, then you immediately have doubts about their judgement and that makes you reticent to spend too much incase you end up with too many players not performing.

Ange has been successful and thus will be backed within the club means, despite what fans think.

Postecoglou's press conference was discussing that, he felt backed but still needed to work to increase it.

That is exactly what he wants from his players too, trust him and work to improve every day.

Let's move on to Monday Night Football and their discussion of the Arsenal defeat.

First they showed why VAR could not overturn the ball-in, ball-out decision.

Now personally, I think the law needs changing. I think a part of the ball must be touching the line and if there is doubt, then tha ball is out.

Next onto the second patrt of the goal and the telling point here is that the defender has already ducked and propelled himself forward before any hands touch him.

The crucial element here, is that he does not immediately or even shortly after, claim a free-kick. His arms do not go out in protest, as every players does so he knows he has not been fouled.

The third element was, was it offside with two players needing to be between the player and the goal UNLESS the player is BEHIND the ball.

So, clearly, there is no clear evidence to cancel the goal, it is all inconclusive and thus no obvious error has occured, goal stands and Newcastle United rightly win.

That's clearled that up. Show those shots and there isn't even a debate to be had!

Arsenal and Mikel Arteta should now be issuing an apology to the PGMOL and the Premier League.

Will they?

Nope, no class.

I'd like to know why I can show you conclusive proof of no foul but Monday Night Football with all their experts can't?

All they have to do is slow everything down and look at it frame by frame.

The Arsenal player is diving forward and he hasn't yet been touched!

One more point from the pre-game Monday Night Football discussion. They talked about Harry Kane, thus at an English Premier League (EPL) game, the media are discussing Bayern Munich.

That is the power of a player, that is the power of marketing, that is why companies have commercial sponsorship deals with big clubs and why some players command big fees.

It's what they can produce off the field as well as on the field. Harry is doing brilliantly, which suggests to me you won't see him back now and thus his exploits on the field get his club and sponsors in the limelihht around the world.

It is this element that shows my discussions about offering Ronaldo, Messi, Kane 10 year deals that incorporate Spurs TV and developing that into a secondary income stream that includes a worldwide touring Legends XI spreading the Tottenham Hotspur brand.

OK, on to Tottenham vs Chelsea and pre-game in his interview Postecoglou made one of his important points that get overlooked.

We need to just concentrate on the things we can control.

Part of the success formula is not wasting your time and energy worrying about things you can't control.

The transfer market is a prime example of this with supporters worried about who everybody else is signing, while for me, it's of no concern who other clubs sign, only who Tottenham signs.

Thus for anyone involved in that process, that is all that matters, not who are Liverpool signing, we have to match that.

Fans come up with hypothetical scenarios and then fret about that happening. That's just plain ridiculous, but that's the negativity of anti-Levy Spurs followers.

Nuts.

Something for you to look at next time and my attention to detail, that is what makes winners. 

It might be an insignificant one, but it demonstrates a trait missing in most.

An error passing out at the back in the first minute cleared up bu Romero but the resulting throw-in was poor and we lost the ball before a foul gave us breathing space.

That start, once again emphasised why we need a specialist throw-in coach or at least someone for whom it is a part of their duties. 

This really is an untapped area of the game where Spurs should look to take a significant advantage over other clubs.

Poor defending gives Spurs a goal.

After 5 minutes Spurs beautifully played from the back, deawing Chelsea out and a superb ball from Maddison into the middle took out the Chelsea midfield. The ball was passed onto Kulusevski who cut inside and shot.

Colwell, however, turned his back when Kulusevski shot. It hit his back and went in.

I'm sorry, but as a defender, you do not turn your back on the ball, you stay facing it. Schoolboy defending.

1-0

After 11 minutes, another throw-in, Maddison tries a volley, nesses it up and it ends up with Vicario making a fantastic save from Jackson from about 9 yards.

Where is that throw-in coach!

Let's go back to VAR and the rules because |I think they are wrong.

Back in the day, if the ball came off a defender you were onside and that is how it should be.

It should be the FINAL touch of the ball that counts, not a previous one by a team mate, that's ridiculous.

If a defender is the final person to touch the ball, then he is playing everyone onside, full-stop.

That should be the rule.

Let me show you how silly this current rule is.

Take this scenario.

A defender passes the ball back to a goalkeeper from say 40 yards, but it is intercepted by an attacker standing in an offside position and scores.

Is that a goal?

yes, the defender played the ball so the attacker is onside, the defender has played him on.

Or, should play be reversed to the last time one of the goalscorer's teammates touched the ball to see if he was in an offside position then?

Because that is the rule in force in the Dier goal.

The defender was the last person to touch the ball, it came off his head to Dier.

Now tell me what is the difference between the two?

And keep this in mind, if the ball hits an attacker's arm, deliberate or accidental and he scores the goal is instantly disallowed, regardless.

Five goals were disallowed in a game where we want to encourage and see goals.

The lawmakers are poor in my opinion.

The defender touching the ball example proves that.

As I have said many times, offside should be determined by the feet, no ther part of the body, where are your feet.

If your feet are in an onside position, you are onside because it is your feet that propel you, not your arms, chest or head.

You run on your feet so if the defender's feet are between you and the goal that should be fine.

I didn't think Romero's was a red card but you can't complain about Udogie getting a second yellow.

And Romero's gentle flick wasn't a red card either.

An eventful night that needs to be viewed again and taken in.

Postecoglou was the same after the game as he has always been this season, you have to accept the officials' decisions, whether you agree with them or not, otherwise you'll have no officials and no game.

The game needs to be returned to the referee on the field, not the referee off the field, who is now running and ruining our game.

A reporter asked the question, should Premier League managers get together and teach referees how to referee the game'.

That is just an unbelievable question.

A pretty imbecilic question and guys like this are shaping your opinion by what they write.

Firstly he is saying referees don't know how to manage a game, they do.

Secondly, that suggests managers know how to referee a game, but they don't.

Thirdly it suggests referees don't know the rules, they do, better than anyone.

Fourth, it suggests managers know the rules, but they don't.

This is a reporter showing how limited his intelligence is about the game he is writing about.

Postecoglou answered him brilliantly, he told him you are the problem mate, but in such a way that the journalist wouldn't be intelligent enough to see it, nor would most fans watching it.

The only way you are going to get this utopia of 100% right decisions, which you never will, is if you put the rule book into AI software and have AI software making all the decisions.

VAR has to be reigned back to correct howlers, nothing else.

It should not be there to determine penalty decisions or even red cards and everything should not be analysed in slow motion.

If you can't see a mistake in a couple of takes then it isn't clear and obvious, thus the decision shouldn't change.

Referees have to follow how they are told to referee a game, how they are told to interpret decisions and how they must use VAR.

The Premier League do not get a say in whether VAR is used or how it is used, that comes from a European level.

Indeed, the Premier League were told to get their act in order and align themselves with the rest of Europe in the way VAR is used.

It is a European level that decides the Premier League must use technology otherwise it won't be licenced to operate under UEFA and its clubs can't compete in UEFA competitions.

Klopp, Arteta or anyone else shouldn't be making the statements they are and neither should be issuing statements either.

Right now, Spurs should issue a statement supporting Postecoglou's point of view and telling other clubs to respect officials' decisions!

Yes, that is tongue-in-cheek.

Reporters should return to talking about football, not whether people agree with the decisions made by the officials in a game.

Different fans will always have different views.

Currently, VAR is more important than the game, is that what we really want?

It seems yes for this entitled woke cancel culture generation and the world needs taking back from them.

COYS