They were the highlights of the showAnd I somehow automatically read your post in their voices...
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They were the highlights of the showAnd I somehow automatically read your post in their voices...
The Emirates?No, somewhere worse.
I still think we'll have the same problem. Ref makes an onfield decision and if it's close he will stick with it even if level means onside. I just think they are corrupt and nothing will changeWhy can't the ref always decide on the sidelines,
Great smell I heardHe supplied Bill Clinton’s cigars I think
I agree with your comment but that’s not corrupt.Bribes I don't know but they know the decision should go a different way but know the ref or linesmen will look bad if overruled. So they just 'agree' with the onfield decision.
Then what do you call then as it's deliberately giving a decision you know is wrong in order to keep your job.I agree with your comment but that’s not corrupt.
Then what do you call then as it's deliberately giving a decision you know is wrong in order to keep your job.
First. Oliver (nor any of the other officials) are biased against Spurs.I agree. I am confused by this obvious mistake nonsense that they keep banging on about with the refs.
Imagine say Harry Kane gets upended in the box and Michael Oliver is the ref. He thinks it was a foul but as he hates Spurs and knows how VAR works he decides deliberately not to give it. VAR checks it and they think it was probably a foul but because it is not a glaring error they don’t overturn it and so Spurs don’t get the penalty and Oliver is in the clear as VAR checked it.
Then Woolwich go straight down the other end and Aubameyang is tackled in the box by Dier who gets the man and a bit of the ball. Oliver still hates Spurs and gives the penalty knowing that unless he has made a glaring error VAR won’t overrule him. He is in the clear again because VAR checks it and whilst they agree it was probably not a foul they deem it to not be a glaring error.
So Spurs instead of being 1-0 up if Oliver liked us are 1-0 down cos he hates us but he’s done nothing officially wrong as VAR has checked both incidents and deemed them not to be obvious errors. It’s a farce. (I probably haven’t explained myself very clearly as I’ve had a few but I understand what I meant even if you don’t!)
There's a load of empty excuses in this post. I one hundred percent think coachs can improve teams. We were one of the poorest coached Spurs sides ive seen. I was saying this when we were top. Talking about things that have come out apparently the players fitness is terrible and we are still seeing this, and it was the same at United post Jose. The lack of patterns of play or drilled attacking movement will not be fixed by Ryan Mason not enough experience. As he is merely a place holder I don't hold it against him.It appears some fans have really short term memory. They only remember a week or twos worth of games.
Last season Jose was being crucified for playing Kane so much. When Kane was injured, fans complain that he should be kept for important games.
Toby had a completely horrific game prior to Jose benching him. I don't know how he fared at training, as I wasn't there. Jose benches him and again some fans go on the protest.
He plays Aurier and fans protest for Doherty. He plays Doherty and fans protest again.
We have 1 reasonably Good player in our whole defense, 1 that has potential but lacks experience, 1 good player that is plagued by injuries and 6 that won't make Sheffield United's squad. But we blame the manager? So only one reliable defender is of real quality. When he has an 'off period', every choice the manager makes will be a crap one.
Managing a team isn't about one performance. I wouldn't expect everyone to understand that. We moaned because Poch couldn't disaplain his players, now we moan because Jose was too hard on players.
Players need to grow a pair. They getting payed weekly salaries that some of us struggle to make in 1 year. If they are crap, they need take it when the manager tells them.
Spurs are at the moment are not a Good squad. No manager on the planet can make them win anything.
The third goal summed us up imvJust another embarrassing clip.
The funniest has to be Leeds third goal. Watching Carlsberg and Ndombele trying to run back was arguably the funniest thing I've ever seen on a pitch.
We lost to Leeds because they were better than us. Get over it.
Kane's offside goal was 100% onside, if we go 2-1 up we win the game.
Do you honestly believe yourself?There's a load of empty excuses in this post. I one hundred percent think coachs can improve teams. We were one of the poorest coached Spurs sides ive seen. I was saying this when we were top. Talking about things that have come out apparently the players fitness is terrible and we are still seeing this, and it was the same at United post Jose. The lack of patterns of play or drilled attacking movement will not be fixed by Ryan Mason not enough experience. As he is merely a place holder I don't hold it against him.
Thomas Tuchel came in with Chelsea five points behind us. Had he chosen Spurs I honestly think we'd be way better off.
Id expect we would have seen a change in system as we have two bad fullbacks( but decent wing backs) to a three of Rodon Toby and Tanganga. This is an obvious fix for our weaknesses. I honestly laugh at people who think we are as bad as we have seen.A good coach could have salvaged this season instead Levy's priority was picking the moment of maximum financial probity to fire the manager. And fuck what it meant for the final. That sadly is his priority but the football team has been badly managed for two and a bit years.
Of course there is benefit to them to agree with onfield decisions. Similar accusations were thrown at Refs going to the screen and sticking with the original decisionIt does seem a stretch when there is no benefit to them and you see such bad decisions across all teams.
I think there is a big difference between it looks close I am going to side on the refs call and I can clearly see what the right call is and I am going to still call it for the ref. As clear as I think it was it was still close enough that I can easily attribute it to incompetence rather than something more nefarious. It is ridiculous to say "not a single person can say that it was offside." It was clearly a very close play.
For example, if the 2nd Kane "goal" where he was 3 feet offside had been ruled good, then we would have something to talk about.
But until I see tangible proof or a good reason to think that they are making calls they 100% think are right and going against it I will go with incompetence. If you have evidence that it is more than that go ahead and share it, I am certainly not saying it is impossible, just that I haven't seen anything to think that is the case.