Spurs thread 2020/21

bluetonium said:
Would this have been the same course of action if Spurs had been the team with several positive tests?

If so we potentially could see some unusual draws, even have a winner who never wins a game?
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one way to win it, just make sure the opponent gets some positive tests so they're forced to abandon games, don't even need VAR then.
 
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.
 
JimB said:
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.
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I'm surprised you took the bait to this one mate, I did laugh when someone said we will get special treatment because Orient have unfortunately gone down with the 'rona. A Levy masterstroke spreading the virus!!!
 
JimB said:
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.
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There wasn't a pandemic 14 years ago & the question would be whether a PL team's players going down with Covid would result in them being knocked out.
 
Neville Kneville said:
There wasn't a pandemic 14 years ago & the question would be whether a PL team's players going down with Covid would result in them being knocked out.
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I'm pretty sure if you cannot have X amount of players in the squad the match is forfeited. I'm sure Southgate (edit was Robson)done that with Boro once upon a time, but that backfired. Although I get the banter and pointscoring bullcrap, this is going to be the new norm for a while. Hopefully it ends soon because football isn't the same!!
 
Crouchinho said:
I'm pretty sure if you cannot have X amount of players in the squad the match is forfeited. I'm sure Southgate (edit was Robson)done that with Boro once upon a time, but that backfired. Although I get the banter and pointscoring bullcrap, this is going to be the new norm for a while. Hopefully it ends soon because football isn't the same!!
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They shouldn't punish clubs for getting ill in this environment.
 
JimB said:
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.
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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!
 
bluestreak said:
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.
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You'll be telling me next that you remember Journey into Space with Alfie Bass as Lemmy/Lenny(?).
 
waspish said:
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!
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I read earlier Liverpool paid for Lincoln players to be tested.??
 
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.
 
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penguins4kompany said:
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.
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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.
 
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