Michael Owen has disagreed with Jurgen Klopp over his claims that Liverpool should replay Tottenham
Officiating in the Premier League and the video assistant referee have been at the centre of discussion
on Wednesday, Klopp claimed that the Reds should have a replay against Ange Postecoglu's side after the error
former Liverpool striker Owen believes that despite the VAR low-point, a replay would set the wrong precedent.
Owen
"Well, I think it's possibly the lowest ebb that VAR have gone through at the moment. It's probably the worst decision or the worst process that's occurred since VAR has been introduced,"
"If you're a positive thinking person and you're not a Liverpool fan, then I'm sure, you know, you'll think, well, good, better processes will be made from this.
"Cricket and Rugby and lots of other sports were struggling for the first year, two years, three years when they introduced their video technology.
"And football is only, you know, in its second season, I think, in this country. So it's going to get better. It's not going to go away.
"The decision was obviously a huge blunder, but anybody that starts crying foul and thinking that there's something sinister in it only has to listen to the whole transcript. And you can quite clearly see that it's just a huge error.
"No consolation for Liverpool, of course. I don't agree that the game needs to be replayed or anything else like that. I just think it's a huge mistake,"
"Ironically, the one thing is that if there was no VAR it would've been disallowed anyway and the linesman would've made a huge mistake.
Because he gave offside when it was on.
"So the decision didn't change from that point of view, as I said, if VAR wasn't here, then Liverpool wouldn't have had that goal. And possibly it would've been the same outcome.
"We would've just been talking about a rubbish offside decision. So yeah, what more can be said than just an awful, awful blunder.
"In my opinion, there should be no other actions taken. It's learning, it's disappointing. It's hard on Liverpool, but to open a can of worms and say there should be replays and things like that, where would that lead?
"Every time there's a bad decision in the future, people would be saying, well, let's replay it. I just can't see that as being a solution."
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