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Match Sporting (H) - UCL - 26/10, 8pm

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i don't understand the rules?

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if he heads it along the path of blue arrow then i think that is off side.

if he heads it backwards, cannoning off the defender into kane's path along the path of the yellow arrows, i thought that wasn't off side
I'm not the only one lol

"I thought because it went backwards and hit a defender it was a different phase of play. I'll have to look at the rule book. A few of us don't have a clue what happened."

Matt Doherty
 
Football is so inauthentic now. A plastic game for a plastic society let's be honest.

The need to "entertain" the "supporters" (daytrippers, tourists) is the priority now and the reason they are the priority is so rich wankers can make more money from the drama of it all, no drama = less money, less viewers, less customers.

And that far outweighs the fairness of the sport.

Fair football = boring football to a world with the attention span of a gnat and the money men know this.
 
VAR worked for us vs City.

This time it decided to bite us on the ass.
Except that WAS the correct decision.....
Don't get me wrong, if we lose/win on the back of a CORRECT decision, I can handle it...

The problem is, when a system like VAR is brought in to CORRECT human error... But STILL gets it wrong, THAT'S what hurts!!!

I'm no fan of VAR.... we've benefitted, and suffered at its grubby little hands,
But the fact it now denies fans (and players) the ability to celebrate a goal fully, without looking over their shoulder, has taken away EVERY last beauty of football....

There IS no spontaneity, there IS no joy in the game any more.... it's been taken away... dare I say killed?

It's a fucking computer game now.... let them play their fucking computer game until their fucking thumbs seize up.

It's no longer football...

Football is dead, long live the PS2!
 
So how were we robbed?

By one bad call at the death? You think we deserved to win that match? Would you rather blame some guy in an office drawing some dodgy lines on the screen or the shite display for the first 60 minutes? The garbage tactics? The lack of guts on display from the majority of our players?

Blaming the officials achieves nothing, acknowledging the latter 3 points might.

We weren't robbed, if the goal had stood the Sporting players would be more justified in feeling robbed, not because of the decision, because of the performance over 96 minutes.
So basically them decisions are ok if you played bad. You dont deserve to win if you play shit
 
We'll lose in Marseille

Anyone that has watched spurs for longer than 5 mins surely knows that

Is there any scenario where we lose but still progress ?

Pretty sure there isn't
 
Yes VAR has made it worse. How is that even possible????

Before VAR you suspected a lot of ref´s were corrupt handing the big clubs free points and dodgy descisions(Fergie-time etc.). But VAR has cemented the game is corrupt, it´s not even a suspicion any more(at least from me) and they aren´t even ashamed of it!!!
Yup, it's out in the open and obvious now and they don't give a shit mate.
 
It would be fair enough to say we only have ourselves to blame leaving it so late but when you get decisions like the ones at spammers and this one within two days of each other the game has gone. Don’t care that one is domestic and one European it makes no difference. Absolutely had enough of VAR and the people making these stupid decisions
VAR is killing the game . When you can’t really celebrate a goal it’s an effing joke
 
We don’t qualify this is 100% on Conte

We had the easiest group in the competition

3 fucking farmers and we still have to win on the last game to qualify ffs

Banter club and fraud manager
 
We'll lose in Marseille

Anyone that has watched spurs for longer than 5 mins surely knows that

Is there any scenario where we lose but still progress ?

Pretty sure there isn't
As Crockett Crockett pointed out in the Conte thread, he got the red and won’t be on the sideline. Maybe we will actually try to score.
 
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