Spurs (H) Post Match Thread

Absolute and utter totally scandalous result. To have some fuckers sat in a shed deciding which goals they'd like to disallow, is not how VAR was intended, unless of course, it's to stymie the best team in the country.
Plus this ludicrous handball rule, which only affects goals, not penalties, is another abortion. If this farce is the future of football, then they can shove their time cameras up their collective fundaments, I'm not putting up with this shite, the joy and passion has been sucked out of it.
 
simon23 said:
i agree with you......maybe VAR isnt the way but we have to acknowledge that people like Pep who know so much more than us are huge backers of it.....
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My mate was a huge backer of her husband spending time with his dad (who has dementia) after work a few times a week...

Until she found out what he was actually doing most of that time.
 
homerdog said:
The problem with what went on yesterday, is that the VAR twit didn't manage to spot the clear and obvious penalty against Rodri, but he did manage to see the ball (allegedly, IMO) hit Laporte's arm.

That must be down to one of two things: incompetence or corruption. The fact that we know that we have many enemies, means that I'm going with the latter. And for all those who will claim that I'm being paranoid, then I will say that you must have more faith in the cheats running the game than I have!
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There is absolutely no doubt whatsover in my mind that decisions are not being made fairly and objectively.

Whether that is down to bias and the disproportionate numbers of Liverpool and United supporters working in the industry - due to the dominance of those two clubs in the preceding 25 years - or it's brown envelopes being handed over, I am not certain. I am inclined to think the latter, bearing in mind the huge sums of money involved. But either way, the playing field is not level.
 
Was hoping a good nights sleep might shake of that shitty feeling, it hasn’t. Even worse now I’ve seen the pen that wasn’t given as well.
 
simon23 said:
seems like you are sayign not to trust Pep...?

thats treason on here
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No, I am saying your opinion of something can change when you have more accurate information about that something.

Just because Pep *has* been a huge backer of VAR (the concept) doesn’t mean he’ll *always* be a huge backer of VAR (the reality).
 
By the same logic though, I don’t think it can be assessed until we’ve seen it deal with similar situations for other clubs.

The handball one, there’s already been a precedent in the Wolves game last week. That’s just a ridiculously stupid law.
 
SebastianBlue said:
No, I am saying your opinion of something can change when you have more accurate information about that something.

Just because Pep *has* been a huge backer of VAR (the concept) doesn’t mean he’ll *always* be a huge backer of VAR (the reality).
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fair enough
 
Had a chance to sleep and calm my tits a bit. Fine(ish) now with yesterday as long as the silly new handball rule and VAR are applied equally to all. My concern is that like the shirt pulling in the box thing a season or two ago it will be applied harshly at the beginning of the season and then quietly ignored as the FA realise it's a shit idea. Onwards and upwards and all that, I'm actually more concerned that the spurs goals were a bit soft, and we didn't bury more of the 30 shots we created. Not sure what the answer is tbh, we play fantastic football.
 
meltonblue said:
By the same logic though, I don’t think it can be assessed until we’ve seen it deal with similar situations for other clubs.

The handball one, there’s already been a precedent in the Wolves game last week. That’s just a ridiculously stupid law.
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Perfectly fair point and one I’ve made.

Not contradictory to my overall point, though, which is even backers of VAR can (and probably will, with this current implementation) change their minds as it is used and a universe of data is created.
 
SebastianBlue said:
No, I am saying your opinion of something can change when you have more accurate information about that something.

Just because Pep *has* been a huge backer of VAR (the concept) doesn’t mean he’ll *always* be a huge backer of VAR (the reality).
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Exactly. Yesterday’s post-match interview was a clear indication from Pep that although he backs (backed) the idea of VAR, there is a clear issue with the application of it.
 
VAR aside, we had 30 attempts, 30! scored 2 goals and were sucker punched as per by spurs (who have a habit of doing that to us). Completely annihilated them yet have litte to show for it.

I'm still slightly worried about our vulnerability at the back. As good as we are going forward, defensive lapses will punish us if we don't put away chances.
 
To say that when a ball grazes a player's arm and there is no signicant alteration of its original trajectory is "handball" is a pure piece of fuckeries. It's also an arrant misuse of the English language. And I object to that. Vehemently.
 
Still absolutely gutted over this. Somebody please hold me.

If we play shit or get out played, fine. It hurts, but there's an explanation.

Drawing like this despite being all over them, comfortably, to the point where we were making them look like a schoolboy side at times.... is very hard to take.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
To say that when a ball grazes a player's arm and there is no signicant alteration of its original trajectory is "handball" is a pure piece of fuckeries. It's also an arrant misuse of the English language. And I object to that. Vehemently.
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Agreed. And not to mention the fact that it allows for rampant cheating by officials who can deem that a ball touched a players arm whether it did or not. Whereas if it has to obvious with some kind of control or change of trajectory, they cannot cheat so easily.
 
mancityscot said:
VAR aside, we had 30 attempts, 30! scored 2 goals and were sucker punched as per by spurs (who have a habit of doing that to us). Completely annihilated them yet have litte to show for it.

I'm still slightly worried about our vulnerability at the back. As good as we are going forward, defensive lapses will punish us if we don't put away chances.
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Yep - 2 goals conceded from 3 shots is wank by anyone’s standard.
 
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