Angry Postecoglou frustrated after Newcastle win with handball goal

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Angry Postecoglou frustrated after Newcastle win with handball goal  04/01/2025  Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, UK

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00:00Jeremy, do you want to start us off?

00:23Is today one of those days when, in spite of the result, you can be proud of your performance?

00:30I'm hugely proud. I'm shattered that the boys didn't get the rewards they deserved because we were outstanding.

00:36Our football was outstanding against a very good opponent who's in good form and in a good place.

00:42I thought it was brilliant, outstanding and it's a game we deserve to win and on any other day we would have won.

00:49Can I ask your opinion of that first goal?

00:52No, because I know what everyone wants me to say but all I'll say is that

00:57on any other day, on a fair and even playing ground, we would have won that game. Simple as that.

01:02Don't keep asking me about the decision. If you guys have no opinion about it, that's fine.

01:08I know what my opinion is and, as I said, if that was a different day and it was an even and fair playing ground,

01:16we would have won that game.

01:19How did it make Brandon Austin's day?

01:21It was great. Everyone was great. Unbelievable. Considering what we had to put up,

01:25Radu and Archie literally got off sick beds to play today and Radu was shattered at half-time.

01:31Brandon, we only found out yesterday he was playing. I can't be prouder of the players.

01:37I'm just angry and disappointed that it wasn't football that denied them getting the rewards today.

01:44Can you talk us through a little bit about what you've been through in terms of dealing with this?

01:52Just a bug. Radu and Archie were bedridden all week. Fraser, obviously, but he's still bedridden.

02:02He's still really struggling with it. There's others, a couple, but like I said, Radu was just spent half-time.

02:09He just didn't have any more to give. Like I said, Thursday we literally had, I think, 11 fit players for training.

02:16But I don't care about that. What I care about is that the players put in an unbelievable performance,

02:23fantastic football, created chances, denied them, had to defend strongly, which we did,

02:29and it's unfair on them more than anything else that they don't get the rewards they deserve today.

02:36And, Jim, in the circumstances, what was your thinking behind leaving football for the senior players

02:41and pursuing the starting line-up?

02:44Just a combination. I thought we were going to need some energy, some running power early on,

02:48and I thought as the game wore on we'd be able to then use the experience of the guys who came on.

02:54I thought it worked well. I thought we were finished really strong.

02:59Like I said, we started the game really well, and the only thing that kind of stopped us in our tracks was not football.

03:05So, you know, that was the whole idea about it.

03:08And I think it's important that guys like Sonny and Biss and Madison let us to an extent,

03:13but they played a lot of football, and I think having them fresh helps them mentally as much as physically.

03:20And I thought all three, when they came on, made a real difference for us.

03:23Major, is this not your concern right now, the England manager being here,

03:27but don't let this make it to the performance stage.

03:29Brilliant. Yeah, brilliant. But I think the whole team was.

03:32Considering everything we had to go through and the situation we're in right now,

03:37to put on a performance like that, I take my hat off to the players.

03:41I thought they were outstanding, and I'm just really, really angry,

03:44as angry as I've ever been, I think, in my career,

03:46that they were denied the right rewards for a fantastic performance.

03:54Does that performance give you real confidence that things will stop?

03:58I have never lacked confidence, Tom.

04:00I get that the results aren't there, and I get, you know,

04:03whether people want to accept the situation we're in or the circumstances.

04:06But I'm just so – I mean, you saw the performance of Archie, you saw Lucas today.

04:12It's unbelievable, as an 18-year-old, to play in that position.

04:17I just see so much to be positive about.

04:20But we need to win games of football, and usually, usually,

04:26when you play well and you do most things right, you do get the rewards.

04:32Unfortunately, we were denied today.

04:34Hans, when you say you're angry that the Spurs were denied the results,

04:38just to clarify, is that the officiating of the result?

04:41Look, you can clarify – I know you just want me to say something,

04:45but I'm not going to.

04:46I think it's clear.

04:47Now, whether people agree with me or not, you think it wasn't handball

04:50or it was accidental or whatever,

04:52I'm just not interested in any of that discussion.

04:54What I'm saying is that on any given day, with a fair and even playing field

04:58and logical thought processes, we would have won that game.

05:01That's it.

05:02So, you can make what you want of that.

05:04I mean, I don't know what else to say about it.

05:07Cheers.

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