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Match Sporting (H) - UCL - 26/10, 8pm

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Disallowed goal aside and not sure if it should have stood or not but once again another dire turgid display. 2nd half was better but the first half was as dull and boring as I have ever seen.
These players can’t keep crying that they want CL football but when they do get it stick in a performance like they did and have done in pretty much every game.

Why decide to start playing in the 2nd half? Why not do that from the start? Give the crowd something to cheer about instead of pissing everyone off.
The atmosphere at the start was decent but as soon as we started the game any anticipation was sucked out.
Most were so angry with the first half, that when we started playing in the 2nd half, the damage was already done and it’s difficult to get rid of that anger.

It’s shocking to watch and something has to change pretty soon.
 
I don't think so as a 1 nil loss and a draw for Sporting V Eintracht puts us all on 8 points.

Eintracht would be out as they have the worst goal difference...... Sporting and us would both have zero goal difference so it would then go to the results between us and Sporting and they have better results over the 2 games we played them.

Best we could get with a loss would be Europa - in fact I think we're guaranteed Europa if we lose by 1 goal or less..... Whoopee......
Its head to head not gd
 
Since when has playing well GUARANTEED you of a win...

Likewise playing badly guaranteed a defeat?

There are SO many examples of winning ugly, in the last minute, even though you stunk the place out for 89 minutes (how else do you think George Graham's ArseAnal won everything they did?)

Yes, we played badly in the 1st half, but fuck me we rallied in the 2nd, and kept on RIGHT until the end.... when, let's face it, Fergie's Utd or Klopp's Liverpool REGULARLY won late on.... and were lauded for it...

But when WE do it, and it's inevitably disallowed, we somehow got what we deserved?!

Nah mate, fuck that... we were denied an unlikely, undeserved win.... but guess what, it happens to PLENTY of other teams.... and they get away with it!! fuck it, for a split second we were through, until VAR decided otherwuse.... and for now we're not.... Yet...

Fucking hurts tonight, but we need to USE it.... not feels sorry for ourselves!
Playing well doesn't guarantee anything, but it does tend to improve your chances of winning.

Playing poorly sees us on 8 points from 5 in possibly the weakest CL group of all time, that's not down to this one bad call, that's down to us having been pathetic.

The side need to wake the fuck up, not excuses it away by blaming a shit VAR call.

The way I see it all those moaning about being robbed are the ones feeling sorry... I'm fucking angry, at our own players.
 
Apparently you can be offside from a backwards pass/header. If the receiver of the deflected pass is ahead of the ball when it is played, it is offside. But why did it take 4 minutes then? I thought they were using a semi automated system in CL?
 
Honestly, as much as I love Spurs and the Club, the reality is that what I have a passion for no longer exists. The game has gone. Now a prime time pantomime that functions to entertain the fat international armchair bound wankers and day trippers with selfie sticks and a bag full of merch. STH to my right sold their ticket to a lovely Korean ‘fan’, but one who was chatting/streaming to her BF all game, looking at her close up videos of Son from the warm up pre match, not even watching the game.

VAR and all the gamesmanship are turning what was a decent, physical game into a British version of WWE/F. It’s not sport any more. It’s a filthy reflection of modern life: to cheat and weasel is to do.

Our stadium is also an altar to materialistic greed. £75 for a basic match day ticket. Fuck off. Kits for the kids? Cheap replicas £100 please. Fuck off.

Players and staff more disconnected from fans than the Royal Family.

Fuck this shit.

Have a great evening all.

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Cue the deluge of STANDING OVATION GIFS you so richly deserve!


Well, we played with heart the last 25 minutes..........

We played bang average for the first 65
....and we 'scored' a legitimate winning goal in the 95th minute....

Point being???
 
There's a lot wrong with VAR but not least is the fact the camera angles are shite.

All the money in the game and we can't have a camera looking along the defensive line at all times?!
 
Ref laughing also , crooked sport. They just want to keep it open for final day

That decision wasn’t on the ref unless Var asked him to review it

They didn’t

He was laughing because he was probably trying to tell our players that the decision was out of his hands which it was sadly

We’ve had a few like that this season so it’s got to be changed imv

For example Spams hand ball goal against Saints should never have been allowed

That could send Saints down
 
Cue the deluge of STANDING OVATION GIFS you so richly deserve!



....and we 'scored' a legitimate winning goal in the 95th minute....

Point being???
I was responding to someone who said we played well the second half, but it was only actually really the last 25 minutes where we played well and put them under sustained pressure - not really a point, just an observation.

And yes, we were still robbed.
 
The other patently stupid thing about Var is that they draw those silly lines as if it’s geometrically precise but pay zero attention to the point the ball actually leaves the passing player.

It’s drivel.
Just heard someone in TV says it’s when the guy passing the ball first touches it, not when he releases it. I’d bet that BS is not drawn from when it goes on Royal’s head, but from a split second later when it comes off the head.
 
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