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Match Spurs v Villa Sunday 26 Nov 2pm

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Gmspurs said:
Fucking outrageous from a team that has won fuck all and is just enjoying a purple patch.


They'll be shite once again before you know it.


I honestly thought Villa had more class.
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Their fans are worse. Arrogant far beyond their rank in world football.
 
mikes01666 said:
Neither I think had started this season. Both contributed significantly to our press until they both ran out of steam.
Lo Celso scored.
Gill constantly provided a threat down the left and covered well for Udogie when he ended up out of position. Should have scored.
Who do you reckon had better games? Porro , Kulusevski maybe?
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Gil was rarely a threat of any consequence and his crosses were either wayward or over hit. Gil actually managed to make Kulusevski look reasonable.
GLC was excellent
 
Weird one the elbow. I think the law is written specifically that a red card can only be given if the elbow is thrown with intent/as a ‘weapon’. Not sure you can prove that at all here.

But it should be a penalty imo.
 
Richard Arlison said:
If the law is written that way it's very much open to subjective opinion.

If I say I think it is, and you say you don't think it is, how do we resolve that?
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The law is never going to be perfect. Goes for football law and genuine, important law. You can’t give reds automatically for it or you’d end up with a situation similar to that ridiculous handball rule we had for a bit.

You have to rely on the referees decision. Here I think he got it right and wrong - don’t think you can conclusively say red, but that kind of incident should still be deemed clumsy and penalty worthy.
 
Deuterz said:
The law is never going to be perfect. Goes for football law and genuine, important law. You can’t give reds automatically for it or you’d end up with a situation similar to that ridiculous handball rule we had for a bit.

You have to rely on the referees decision. Here I think he got it right and wrong - don’t think you can conclusively say red, but that kind of incident should still be deemed clumsy and penalty worthy.
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If I'm trying to be as neutral as possible, I see him swing his elbow and make contact with Gil's face. It's a foul.

If he's lucky it's not red, if he's unlucky like Romero it's straight red. You have to accept that officials see things in different ways at different times.

What i don't get it how the VAR haven't pulled the ref in to look at it. It couldn't be clearer.
 
Deuterz said:
Weird one the elbow. I think the law is written specifically that a red card can only be given if the elbow is thrown with intent/as a ‘weapon’. Not sure you can prove that at all here.

But it should be a penalty imo.
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By the laws of the game it's violent conduct, as he made no effort to play the ball, he was playing the man.

Straight Red and a penalty all day long.
 
Ionman34 said:
By the laws of the game it's violent conduct, as he made no effort to play the ball, he was playing the man.

Straight Red and a penalty all day long.
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It isn’t, he is challenging for the ball when it occurs and you cannot prove it was a deliberate throw of the elbow.

Referees will only give red cards for elbows they are satisfied are deliberately thrown. They have been very consistent on this.
 
I read VAR wasn’t operating correctly at the start of the game. FFS!
Game against Brentford delayed by ten minutes because they had no water in the stadium
 
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