Ange Postecoglou aims 'It's Coming Home' dig at English football in referee rant
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"You've got a song that says, 'It's Coming Home'. This is your game, yet it takes an Aussie from the other side of the world to be the one that's most conservative about changes.". Ange Postecoglou is ready for a one-man crusade on the laws of football, insisting everyone misconstrued his 'all things being equal' comments which made headlines last weekend.
Postecoglou, 59, was left fuming after his Tottenham side fell to a controversial 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle, with key decisions going against Spurs. Post-match, the Aussie-Greek manager claimed that 'had all things were equal and balanced, we would've won'.
That led to backlash towards Postecoglou, who guided Tottenham a hugely important 1-0 win over Liverpool on Wednesday in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final clash. Spurs had their own stroke of luck when goalscorer Lucas Bergvall avoided a red card shortly before netting his 86th-minute winner.
THE FA CUP GIANT KILLERS: Get your special edition magazine celebrating some of the game's greatest-ever upsets. In his press conference after the Liverpool game, Postecoglou attempted to enlighten us with what he really meant by his comments from Saturday. In a lengthy explanation, he even referenced 1996's 'Three Lions' by Baddiel and Skinner and the Lightning Seeds, a song which has become synonymous with English football but is often claimed to have an air of arrogance.
"I spoke about it after the game last time, I think my comments were misinterpreted," Postecoglou began. "I didn't criticise the referee or the decision. I didn't think the decision was right about the handball. But I said, it's very hard at the moment, it's very confusing, to understand certain elements of the game.
