Ange Postecoglou takes swipe at Liverpool while criticising Tottenham apathy | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur's under-pressure manager Ange Postecoglou pointed out the invariably outspoken responses to controversial refereeing decisions involving Liverpool while lamenting the lack of fight offered by his own club.

Postecoglou addressed this contrast after his Spurs side were denied an equaliser in their midweek defeat to Chelsea after a VAR review. Replays did appear to show Pape Sarr had fouled Moises Caicedo before firing past Robert Sanchez, but Postecoglou questioned whether it met the threshold for an overrule.

"If a referee sees that and he needs to see it for six minutes, what's clear and obvious about it?" Tottenham's increasingly beleaguered coach huffed.

Rather than the validity of Sarr's goal, much of the fallout from Spurs' 16th league defeat of the season focused on Postecoglou cupping his ear in the direction of the team's travelling fanbase. Tottenham's boss questioned this perceived lack of push-back, citing the supposed indignation that surrounds Liverpool games as an example of an entirely contrasting reaction.

"I think in the time I've been here, we've had two decisions that have gone for us against Liverpool and there has been a national campaign, almost," Postecoglou pointedly noted.

"It seems like every fight ends up being an internal fight at this club. There's never any sort of defending of the club or the club defending itself. That's a unique challenge, but I accepted that challenge so I've got to try to find a way to overcome it."

Postecoglou urged those with an association to Tottenham to be "more vocal". "I hope not [just the manager]," the Australian boss added. "I think you hear enough from me, you probably hear too much from me, to be honest.

"It doesn't have to be just from people at the club. I hear plenty of people talking and defending other clubs but it seems, with Tottenham, wherever there's a sore there's a real pile-on to sort of stick a finger in that sore and then we kind of accept our fate.

"You guys [journalists] know the landscape better than I do, but it seems like...I never switch it [the television] on and hear any sort of strong voice. The only voice you hear is me. When we're talking about the bigger clubs, there seems to be a lot more voices. And not always defending. You need scrutiny and constructive criticism as well. We definitely get enough of that! But we never get any of the other stuff."