The Tottenham Thread 12/13

Re: Adebayor

Massive, massive fine please. 10 weeks or so. The man has let everyone down - utter disgrace. We broke our wage structure for him - if he fucks us over he needs to pay some of that back. Would be happy to see him sold in January but I know it's not possible.
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Re: Adebayor get out of our club

100% with you. Sack him if necessary, I don't care if we take a financial hit.
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lol
 
Matty said:
It seems a strange decision to spend that kind of money on the French Number 1 and then sit him on the bench behind a 41 year old. Maybe Friedel has been playing well, but whats clear is he is not Spurs keeper for the future. Is it worth pissing off Lloris, souring him on the club and leaving him struggling for form due to a lack of gametime just to play the inform Friedel who, in all likelihood will be gone in the Summer?

You have to question hwo much AVB actually wanted Lloris and how much Levy felt it was a value for money signing.
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friedel is the best keeper in the prem. class act.<br /><br />-- Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:16 am --<br /><br />
citykev28 said:
Crouchinho said:
jimharri said:
Agreed. Definite red card. I think when our resident spud has had a night's sleep and sees it again on the MOTD repeat in the morning, he will reconsider his opinion.
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Perhaps, maybe I have rose tinted glasses. It's like when people didn't think Balotelli did anything wrong with Parker. We always seem to back our players.

With the horrible past of Webb, I don't trust his decisions. Carzola rolled around more than a pig in mud.
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I won't say that Mario 100% did or didn't mean it but watch it at full speed. If he knew what
he was doing, he's more talented than any of us Mancs imagine he is.
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mario did it on purpose. the biomechcanics of his leg movement prove that. nobody swings their leg tbe way mario did if he was off balance. clear red card for ade.
vs arsenal as well._
 
I didn't mean to set off a debate about Mario, that's all in the past now. It was just how we defend our own. I still haven't watched a replay, but ade apologised to the players and fans for the challenge. Sign of a guilty man.

Webb is still a wanker. Hopefully most will agree.
 
Crouchinho said:
I didn't mean to set off a debate about Mario, that's all in the past now. It was just how we defend our own. I still haven't watched a replay, but ade apologised to the players and fans for the challenge. Sign of a guilty man.

Webb is still a wanker. Hopefully most will agree.
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I doubt it.
Howard Webb is the best referee in the Premiership.
I would be more than happy if he officiated in every City game.
 
Crouchinho said:
I didn't mean to set off a debate about Mario, that's all in the past now. It was just how we defend our own. I still haven't watched a replay, but ade apologised to the players and fans for the challenge. Sign of a guilty man.

Webb is still a wanker. Hopefully most will agree.
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i thought it was a great challenge by adebayor, unfortunately i`m an old bugger and times have change since my youth, challenges like that were applauded then but now are illegal in the sport.

if its any comfort which probably it isnt, i thought you would butcher arsenal with 11 men on the pitch but as soon as you went down to 10 the writing was on the wall i`m afraid.

if i had a hate list united would be the only name on it. my dislike list would have arsenal on top
 
Crouchinho said:
I didn't mean to set off a debate about Mario, that's all in the past now. It was just how we defend our own. I still haven't watched a replay, but ade apologised to the players and fans for the challenge. Sign of a guilty man.

Webb is still a wanker. Hopefully most will agree.
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My issues with the Balotelli incident are not really around whether I bleieve he did or didn't mean it.

If I were being honest I think Balotelli did mean to kick out at Parker so, morally, he probably deserved to serve a ban for it.

However my issues are as follows.

Webb quite clearly saw the incident at the time. He looked directly at the incident and gesticulated after it to indicate he's seen it and, more importantly, he hadn't deemed it to be anything untoward. The fact he then came out after the game and claimed he hadn't seen it and, had he seen it based on the TV replays he's have sent Balotelli off was pure and simple bullshit. He bowed to media pressure, pressure stoked up by media darling and triffic bloke Harry Redknapp. He lied. Whether, ultimately, the correct outcome happened is irrelevant. Webb lied.

My second issue is that the appeal was not upheld. As I said before, I believe Balotelli intended to do it. However I'm not 100% certain, and I'm not 100% certain because the replays are far from conclusive. From the replays it's just as likely his leg caught Parker as part of an attempt to steady himself on landing. I don't believe that's what happened, but it's certainly a fairly plausible explanation. As such, with the replays being at best open to fairly wide interpretation, it beggars belief for a 4 match ban to be handed down to Balotelli. The ban should have been overturned as his guilt was far from certain. They guessed. They allowed his reputation to make the decision and, yet again, they bowed to media and triffic Harry's pressure.

The Balotelli incident showed Howard Webb to be a pandering liar and the FA to be a spineless set of bastards more interested in looking like they're doing the right thing than actually doing the right thing.
 
Matty said:
The Balotelli incident showed Howard Webb to be a pandering liar and the FA to be a spineless set of bastards more interested in looking like they're doing the right thing than actually doing the right thing.
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Agreed.
 
So the spurs are now tied for the third place with Chelsea, albeit with a game in hand.

But you have to wonder how lucky they have been this year with the refreeing decisions.

Vertonghen's foot was clearly offside today.
We were denied two penalties against them (Gallas handball and zaba brought down)
Norwich had a legitimate penalty turned down in a game that ended 1-1
Reading had a penalty denied when Kyle walker handled in the area when the score was 0-0
Suarez had a legitimate penalty turned down and spurs scored from a freekick that was incorrectly awarded.

That has got to be atleast 6-9 points that they have been awarded by the officials.
 
Can you imagine the sheer frenzy of the media wank fest if that had been Spurs at St James yesterday? It would be an utter Talk Shite circus lasting until at least next Thursday.
 
bleed.blue said:
So the spurs are now tied for the third place with Chelsea, albeit with a game in hand.

But you have to wonder how lucky they have been this year with the refreeing decisions.

Vertonghen's foot was clearly offside today.
We were denied two penalties against them (Gallas handball and zaba brought down)
Norwich had a legitimate penalty turned down in a game that ended 1-1
Reading had a penalty denied when Kyle walker handled in the area when the score was 0-0
Suarez had a legitimate penalty turned down and spurs scored from a freekick that was incorrectly awarded.

That has got to be atleast 6-9 points that they have been awarded by the officials.
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CONSPIRACY I TELL YOU!!!

You could replace Spurs with any team in the league, edit the list of events a bit, and concoct a post just like this. Every side in the league both benefit from and are hurt by refereeing mistakes....
 
bleed.blue said:
So the spurs are now tied for the third place with Chelsea, albeit with a game in hand.

But you have to wonder how lucky they have been this year with the refreeing decisions.

Vertonghen's foot was clearly offside today.
We were denied two penalties against them (Gallas handball and zaba brought down)
Norwich had a legitimate penalty turned down in a game that ended 1-1
Reading had a penalty denied when Kyle walker handled in the area when the score was 0-0
Suarez had a legitimate penalty turned down and spurs scored from a freekick that was incorrectly awarded.

That has got to be atleast 6-9 points that they have been awarded by the officials.
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To be fair to them, they were horribly unlucky last season. Only missed out on the Champions League because of Chelsea's flukes against Barca and Munich. They're easily (at least) the fourth best team in the league, the better teams tend to get the more luck.
 
Amazingly enough, André Villas-Boas now has the best win percentage from League games (53%) of any Spurs manager since the club joined the Football League back in 1908...

http://www.myfootballfacts.com/TottenhamHotspurManagersRecords1898-2009.html

...and we've been without half our first choice defence (Younes Kaboul & Benoit Assou-Ekotto) and our player of the year from last season Scott Parker for almost the entire season so far.

Most Spurs fans will tell you that we've only very rarely played to our full potential this season, yet here we are level on points with Chelsea in third place.
 
bleed.blue said:
So the spurs are now tied for the third place with Chelsea, albeit with a game in hand.

But you have to wonder how lucky they have been this year with the refreeing decisions.

Vertonghen's foot was clearly offside today.
We were denied two penalties against them (Gallas handball and zaba brought down)
Norwich had a legitimate penalty turned down in a game that ended 1-1
Reading had a penalty denied when Kyle walker handled in the area when the score was 0-0
Suarez had a legitimate penalty turned down and spurs scored from a freekick that was incorrectly awarded.

That has got to be atleast 6-9 points that they have been awarded by the officials.
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We outplayed pool, reading and norwich and the you beat us so not sure why that matters about some penalties. Last season balotelli stayed on the pitch to score the winner which was the difference between champions league and third. Same with foy screwing us over along with clatternburg. So maybe we're due a bit of luck this season. Even though I disagree with some of the ones you've nitpicked.

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Pam said:
Can you imagine the sheer frenzy of the media wank fest if that had been Spurs at St James yesterday? It would be an utter Talk Shite circus lasting until at least next Thursday.
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You say the same bullshit every 3 pages. Load of fucking nonsense every time. The media loved harry, loved him at Pompey and West Ham. The last time I read the rags and listened to talkshite they were sharpening their knives over AVB.
 
Rather Spurs get the CL place than Arsenal. They got truly done out of it last year, still not convinced all was kosher at that Arsenal game. And Chelsea winning the CL in the way they did.. Fucking hell. Must have been maddening.
 
adrianr said:
Rather Spurs get the CL place than Arsenal. They got truly done out of it last year, still not convinced all was kosher at that Arsenal game. And Chelsea winning the CL in the way they did.. Fucking hell. Must have been maddening.
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I wouldn't, I despise spuds, not too keen on the gunners either but given the choice between them, it's arse's arse every time.
 
Crouchinho said:
The last time I read the rags and listened to talkshite they were sharpening their knives over AVB.
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Durham absolutely detests AVB. It would almost be worth watching you get champs league just so he has to hold his hands up.
 
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