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Match Woolwich Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur FC @ The Dome of Silence, 8PM KO Wed 15 Jan 2025

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shempz said:
Finally putting in my tuppence worth on that corner they scored from.

Everyone knows it should not have been a corner - however I was standing just a few rows away from the corner, and the ball was never in the corner d (it was at least a couple of inches completely outside it). Surely VAR could have checked that, as if the ball was never in the d, then it was never officially in play, and the goal should have been disallowed.
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Woolwich and the F.A. - best mates since 1913.

Don't do it to yourself
 
Well it’s a brand new day and I am not going to allow this club to drag me down . We may have different views on the cause but I think we can all agree being a Spurs fan is not as much fun as it should be . So I will focus on more enjoyable things like my impending dental appointment.
 
Ed Vanderlay said:
Well it’s a brand new day and I am not going to allow this club to drag me down . We may have different views on the cause but I think we can all agree being a Spurs fan is not as much fun as it should be . So I will focus on more enjoyable things like my impending dental appointment.
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Dentist GIF
 
So utterly Spurs that we faced 9 legit corners from Sangria Stoke and defended them all well - only to concede an own goal on the 1 illegitimate corner the orcs were awarded.

You can absolutely guarantee they will change the rules and allow VAR to intervene on dodgy corner calls after this. Always Tottenham... ffs
 
CroSpurs said:
Kulusevski as a winger - never again. He just slows the game down. But when sou have Johnson it’s not much of a choice.

We need left and right direct wingers. Only Richarlison played to Solanke strenght last night. Spence made great pass to him too. Gabriel saved them twice, but that’s not what our wingers do sadly.
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Fucking hate Gabriel but he's 10 times the player Romero will ever be.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Disagree

There are types of calls and locations of calls that suit certain teams and strategies.

If you want to press you need the ref to let contact from behind slide and 50/50’s on the hallway line when you are defending.

If you are a set piece team you want to get a call for every contact in the final 3rd when you have the ball.

As opposed to a team like us or City where you want the ref to play advantage more and allow transitions and the game to flow. We don’t want stop start, dead ball situations at all.

If you watch that first half, Hooper was whistling EVERYTHING. I’ve always wondered if teams data departments study this and study officials tendencies…

The funny thing about Hooper is that he got in trouble with a whistle against City once where he didn’t play advantage when Grealish was through so it’s clearly his style. He was probably the perfect official for their game plan.

And after all that, a referee can’t win a game, they don’t kick the ball. We need to be good enough to win despite officials.
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He blew the whistle cause they were fouls, simple as that. The corner kick is the only thing they fucked up.

Our players are petulant children, Kulu the worst offender. Can't get the ball back or retain it more than 3 secs so I'm just gonna kick at the opposition, then wave my arms and shout at the ref, acting all surprised...should do the trick. Morons, grow the eff up and go get some footy IQ.
 
Lovingthisstyle said:
1. A corner that wasn’t a corner , and
2. A ball that horribly bobbled in front of the keeper’s hand.

The lack of luck at the moment is incredible!
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Pal, let's get real for a moment.

They could've scored 10 had they really bothered, so that corner is anecdotal.

Ball bounced in front of Kinsky and so what? You're a pro keep, still gotta save that, it's on him. Zero excuse, he was atrocious last night. We'd have played without a keeper, it'd have been the same.

Last but not least, when you lose 11 games outta 21 in the PL, it ain't bad luck...you're just awfully shite. Same applies to winning one sorry milk cup in 25 years.

8th richest club in the world.
 
Beemac said:
There is no hiding place in the injury list. Everyone bar Liverpool has had a horrific season in that respect yet we only look at that problem in regard to the “top clubs” . Truth is Spurs have been shipping goals like no tomorrow when Romero and Van Der Ven were fit. Ange says we will play my way (Angeball) cos that’s who we are. Well tonight I saw no evidence of that while we defended on the edge of our penalty box for almost all of the first 45. Son’s goal was lucky because they had numerous shots which went clear with a block while Son’s went in. The second half was a joke. Nothing to lose so let’s throw on a few more forward thinking players, miss out our midfield and try to press their back 4. It looked slightly better but they were rampant at times. Heaven forbid they had a Haaland, Henry, Lewandowski, Osimhen type player they would have scored 8 or 9.
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They missed a lot of chances in the second half. It could have been ugly.
 
Jaynola said:
Last but not least, when you lose 11 games outta 21 in the PL, it ain't bad luck...you're just awfully shite. Same applies to winning one sorry milk cup in 25 years.

8th richest club in the world.
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1. We haven't been the alleged "8th richest" for 25 years..... 4 or 5 at most.
2. 8th highest income doesn't = 8th most wealthy....... So define "rich" IF you are capable.

Take a look at our accounts (if you dare and are even capable of interpreting them)..... We aren't dripping with excess cash profit every year. Pretending that we are Man U and the Glaziers are filtering 100s of millions of cash out of them year after year is complete and utter bullshit.


(We do have a cash reserve; but the terms of our low-interest stadium finance bonds demands that we are not allowed to spend that.... Dip into that at any point over the next 15-ish years and we are fucked.)
 
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