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[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Ref does well to see through the three players and be confident enough to rule out the goal. View attachment 148113View attachment 148114

My thoughts exactly. He guessed which is totally wrong.

 

[thegoatsthegoat]

I'll take any win at Spurs.

FOYS!

The match really showed how the team is being built around Erling. If he was fit enough to play the dippers we might have seen a different result with all those moves Doku created.

Possibly, although Haaland has been present for almost all of our stinkers this season. Us looking to attack quicker with Doku and Savinho should help Haaland, as long as the service is decent enough.

Our rebuild needs to be around Haaland, the best style of football needed to get the biggest impact from him.

 

[Blu1]

Having re watched the game we had a good first half generally & should have been 3 up but 2nd half was full of errors tired legs & poor game management.

Spurs rested a lot of their players for europa league in first half & if they started from the start we might have been in trouble

Big 3 points but we were lucky to take the points maybe we are due some luck

 

[shozzabluebird]

Ref does well to see through the three players and be confident enough to rule out the goal. View attachment 148113View attachment 148114

Does he actually blow his whistle? Certainly there is no hand signal !

 

[foggy1974]

Graham Scott on VAR, the idiot who booked Aguero for diving at St Marys

 

[foggy1974]

That’s the point though

If the ref is not sure then allow the goal and let VAR deal with it

Ridiculous decision

The ref said ball hits hand but he can’t see it with players in front of him

The ball first hits Spuds player so is it then a pen for us

Always thought hand ball is hand going to ball not ball hitting the hand but the amount of rule changes who knows

Thankfully we won

That's the lunacy we have with the handball rule, a defender accidentally handles the ball & it's not a pen but an attacker has a goal disallowed for accidental handball

 

[ballbag]

Thought we looked far the better team for most of the match. Wish we could have stuck a few more in so the scoreline reflected the match, but I'll take a clean sheet and improving performances, cheers!
Khusanov is really impressing me.

 

[foggy1974]

My thoughts exactly. He guessed which is totally wrong.

He probably heard the Spurs players shouting for handball.

You can imagine the amount of death threats the dipper supporting ref would have got had he gave that decision against the tarquins

 

[Cityfan]

Nunez was targeted by Spurs in the second half when he was run ragged. He can’t defend. He is better going forward but his final ball is terrible. He did work hard though but he is just not elite level.

I'm not Nunes' biggest fan but their targeting of him didn't help them very much they got their chances down our left side. Thought he played pretty well yesterday.

 

[cityontheup]

My thoughts exactly. He guessed which is totally wrong.

He did that with quite a few decisions during the game

 

[shemnel]

Having re watched the game we had a good first half generally & should have been 3 up but 2nd half was full of errors tired legs & poor game management.

Spurs rested a lot of their players for europa league in first half & if they started from the start we might have been in trouble

Big 3 points but we were lucky to take the points maybe we are due some luck

ooo youve seen the game - any view on that Doku offside in the 2nd half? no replay was given on TV and i wondered what it looked like in real time.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Let's start at the beginning with the disallowed goal. He couldn't possibly have seen that through 3 players and especially through Erls hand/body. You cannot guess, and he did.
Saw what he wanted to.

I was in two minds to look at the footage to see where the whistling wanker was and how many bodies his x-ray vision had to penetrate, and then I just thought fuck him - with a blunted corner flag, flag removed!!

 

[Chippy_boy]

That's incorrect. A defender can accidentally handle the ball without it being an offence, but an attacker can't if it directly leads to a goal.- Stupid interpretation, but that's the current situation.

Thanks - I stand corrected.

 

[schfc6]

Where does one start with this ? FFS

The only error was the ref ruling it out. He got it wrong, VAR couldn’t do much about it.

 

[schfc6]

The initial contact with Haaland was above his sleeve. Ergo not hand ball.

There was no evidence that the ball hit Haaland’s hand/arm.

Surely the bar has to be that there is an offence, not that there isn’t an offence.


It’s a clear and obvious error.

Personally don’t agree, the ref got it badly wrong. But Devil’s Advocate, I don’t think there was enough evidence to overturn.

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

ooo youve seen the game - any view on that Doku offside in the 2nd half? no replay was given on TV and i wondered what it looked like in real time.

I couldn’t believe that either …. why did the Lino put his flag up? Surely you have to let the play continue to see what happens and then raise it?

The inconsistency of it all is infuriating.

 

[pride in battle]

The only error was the ref ruling it out. He got it wrong, VAR couldn’t do much about it.

Okay...

 

[pride in battle]

Personally don’t agree, the ref got it badly wrong. But Devil’s Advocate, I don’t think there was enough evidence to overturn.

Oh dear...#Specsaves

 

[schfc6]

Oh dear...#Specsaves

There wasn’t. Take the blue tinted specs off.
I’ve watched 15/20 times and it’s not conclusive that it did/didn’t hit a part of his arm.
As I said there’s no way VAR could rule that out. But the ref made the call.

 

[pride in battle]

There wasn’t. Take the blue tinted specs off.
I’ve watched 15/20 times and it’s not conclusive that it did/didn’t hit a part of his arm.
As I said there’s no way VAR could rule that out. But the ref made the call.

If every goal was ruled out for that we wouldn't have a game.