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Fernando Llorente and VAR grab the attention as Spurs end Rochdale dream

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It was a game of two halves, but with a twist. Spurs romped home in the second period with a cocky display on a carpet of snow to set up a quarter-final at Swansea. The first half belonged to VAR. The video assistant disallowed a goal, turned a free-kick into a penalty and provided half a dozen excruciating interruptions in which referee Paul Tierney stood forlornly with his finger in his ear.

As far as the football went, a hat-trick for Fernando Llorente was accompanied by two from Son Heung-min and a first goal for Kyle Walker-Peters, while Stephen Humphrys scored a sweet goal for Rochdale to temporarily level the scores at 1-1. Talk among the shivering Wembley crowd of under 25,000, though, was of technology, its effectiveness and why it took so long to reach a decision.

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