Spurs thread 2020/21

[Crouchinho]

They shouldn't punish clubs for getting ill in this environment.

Exactly. Everyone wanted the game to go ahead, this game is/was a big deal. Not so sinister as others are making it out to be, but it is the Spurs thread afterall

 

[Neville Kneville]

Exactly. Everyone wanted the game to go ahead, this game is/was a big deal. Not so sinister as others are making, but it is the Spurs thread afterall

Spurs are sinister now that **** has taken over.

You'll all know about it before long, when it all starts.

 

[waspish]

Gotta smile at posts suggesting that Spurs are somehow getting preferential treatment and are the bad guys in this.

What about Leyton Orient selfishly and recklessly deciding to carry on playing games fully in the knowledge that most of their players were ill and hadn't been tested? If Spurs are eventually given a bye (no decision on that yet), they have promised to pay Orient whatever they were due to earn had the game been played.

Fourteen years ago, when the entire Spurs first team squad went down with a bug / food poisoning the night before the final game of the season (that should have seen them qualify for the Champions League for the first time), they were told that if they could not fulfil the fixture, they would forfeit it. The players consequently took to the pitch while sick as dogs, and inevitably lost to a West Ham team they should have beaten comfortably in normal circumstances. So no..............if Spurs get a bye in this far less important game, it won't be a case of receiving preferential treatment. It will just be the rules being as strictly applied to Orient as they were to Spurs 14 years ago.

I think spurs did the right thing getting Leyton Orient players tested! Rags and the scousers haven’t don’t it and there players that cost an absolute fortune could be playing against a team that half them could be covid positive!

 

[KS55]

Oh yes I remember the Blue Lamp. I think Dixon of Dock Green might have been a spin off from it. Wow, other memories are coming back to me, any one remember PC 49 or other radio progs... like Dick Barton with Jock and Snowy....or Paul Temple.

You'll be telling me next that you remember Journey into Space with Alfie Bass as Lemmy/Lenny(?).

 

[BlueMonkey79]

I think spurs did the right thing getting Leyton Orient players tested! Rags and the scousers haven’t don’t it and there players that cost an absolute fortune could be playing against a team that half them could be covid positive!

I read earlier Liverpool paid for Lincoln players to be tested.??

 

[JimB]

They shouldn't punish clubs for getting ill in this environment.

Agreed - even if Orient did behave recklessly by playing on when they must have had suspicions that coronavirus was running rampant through their squad.

 

[waspish]

I read earlier Liverpool paid for Lincoln players to be tested.??

Ah right never seen that fair do’s to them wonder when the results be back.

 

[penguins4kompany]

Spurs, who should have rightfully finished in 10th spot last season if VAR had been implemented correctly through out the league. According to a bona fide official study.

 

[penguins4kompany]

How the Premier League table would look if we didn't have VAR this season - Planet Football

The introduction of VAR has been one of the biggest talking points in the 2019-20 Premier League season - but how would the table look if it hadn't been used?

www.planetfootball.com

 

[JimB]

Spurs, who should have rightfully finished in 10th spot last season if VAR had been implemented correctly through out the league. According to a bona fide official study.

You haven’t read that article correctly. It shows how the table would have looked had VAR not been implemented at all. It specifically says that they have made no judgement as to whether or not the VAR decisions were correct. So, at best, it’s an anodyne article.

For what it’s worth, I’d say that, overall, Spurs were slightly in deficit last season in terms of VAR interventions - including those times when VAR didn’t intervene when it should have.