Thomas Tuchel Quotes

If I sit here and say I don't agree with VAR, I'd be lying.

I have always said that I am a friend of VAR.

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

I always said that VAR is a very important tool on objective and important decisions.

I think VAR is a very healthy development within the industry.

I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.

We've all had meetings with the referees. We're all clear with how VAR works, and ultimately, you want the rules to be fair.

At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

The feeling is that video assistant referees and technology are here to help us, especially for justice in the penalty area.

I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.

Football is always a very emotional game, and VAR is changing that a bit.

All the major sports have video reviews, and for some reason, the Premier League, which is watched all around the world, is still in the dark ages.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

A video referee is useful for sure.

I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

I think I always wanted to be quarterback so I could call the play.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

It's football: sometimes you're fit, and sometimes you're not.

We should not discuss refereeing performances but support decisions to help their work.

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you to be very clear - to make that decision and to sell it to everybody who's there. You believe in it, but you have to make sure other people believe in it, too.

I've been through everything in soccer.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.