Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou is not sure how to fix the state of Premier League refereeing.
The Australian has become the latest head coach to lament VAR decisions in his team's games.
Postecoglou spoke after a 4-1 loss to Chelsea, which saw his team go down to nine men.
He told reporters post-game about Premier League managers working through the LMA to try and improve refereeing standards: “See that's the problem. That's the problem.
“Premier League managers should just manage their football clubs. I've never and I never will talk to a referee about the rules of the game.
“I was taught that you grow up and you respect the officials. You know what managers do? I tell you what managers do. We, me included, try to find ways to bend the rules and get around them. Tell me what the rule is and I guarantee you'll have a room full of managers processing 'how can I get around this?'.
“They're not the right people. We're not the right people and I get that people keep saying that. I don't agree with that. What I want is the best officials always being upskilled to officiate the game.
“I think that it's so hard for a referee to officiate the game nowadays. Their authority is constantly getting diminished. I grew up afraid of referees. They'd be like policemen. Nowadays I guess we talk back to policemen as well.
“I'm old school mate. I'm from a bygone era and I just like the purity of the game but that's not what's going on.
“Part of this is my problem. I've got to embrace it and find a way to work with it but it goes against everything I want to work with my team on. I want my team to play fast, attacking, high tempo go at it football.
“If we get a red card, a penalty against us, so what. Let's cop it, let's go again. But we have to stand around for two minutes trying to figure out if something is offside or not. Let the linesman make the decision. Remember it used to be the benefit of the doubt to the striker. Remember that? We all lived with it. The game didn't collapse, but like I said I'm an old man shouting at the clouds mate. I'll cop it for that but that's who I am."
