The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

[spurspinter1]

He did say he watched the incident four or five times before taking the interview, do you really think if the situation the other way happened Mancini would be all smiles about the situation?

To be completely fucking honest I don't care if the dodgy **** had watched it 4 or 5 hundred times. In his outburst he was being judge, jury and executioner. From that moment on Mario was getting a four match ban.

No, the moment Balotelli decided to stamp on the head of a grounded opponent he was going to get a four match ban. What did you expect Harry to say? "Nah it's alright, i mean he could have split his head open but that's all fairy dust with me, in fact i love it when players try to stamp on my boys, i want to see more of it.".

It is farcical that you are actually trying to blame Harry for getting Balotelli banned. One person in the universe got Balotelli banned, and that was Balotelli. If Defoe did that to Silva you would lose your shit.

It is not Harry's fault that Balotelli decided to be a petulant little c*nt.

Wouldn't have been my choice of words but thanks for attempting to get that message through!

 

[Speaker]

To be completely fucking honest I don't care if the dodgy **** had watched it 4 or 5 hundred times. In his outburst he was being judge, jury and executioner. From that moment on Mario was getting a four match ban.

No, the moment Balotelli decided to stamp on the head of a grounded opponent he was going to get a four match ban. What did you expect Harry to say? "Nah it's alright, i mean he could have split his head open but that's all fairy dust with me, in fact i love it when players try to stamp on my boys, i want to see more of it.".

It is farcical that you are actually trying to blame Harry for getting Balotelli banned. One person in the universe got Balotelli banned, and that was Balotelli. If Defoe did that to Silva you would lose your shit.

It is not Harry's fault that Balotelli decided to be a petulant little c*nt.

Wouldn't have been my choice of words but thanks for attempting to get that message through!

There are two things that really grind my gears in football, and that is diving and deliberately trying to injure a player. I would have thought that a fan of the club who had to suffer through the Alf-Inge Haaland horror would be a bit more critical of players who try to do the same.

 

[paulgmurphyhumphries]

Personally think bankrupting a club single handledly, is quite an achievement, as is winning one trophy, despite 1000 transfers

 

[more lazy than useless]

That someone (actually lots) could type something like that astounds me. I doubt many would say it in a real life conversation.

Are you new to football or something? Take any group of fans and there will be many who would react like that. It's human nature, most people are not nice when it comes to things like football which bring out their darker side. Its made easier to do by being at the end of an internet connection, but I disagree that not many would say it in real life conversation, it all depends on the group they are speaking to.

I'm surprised the spurs fans on this thread have let themselves get drawn in to this kind of nonsense. You're usually good posters, and in part that's because you've avoided arguing with emotionally driven topics.

I usually avoid these topics as well (there's nothing to be gained), however, I have a point to make;

5. I'll refer you back to the point about throwaway comments being taken out of context, you know, like many of you complain about when it happens to your club/players/manager.

Harry has a habit of these 'throw-away comments' and doesn't seem to learn that if he makes so free with them he sets himself up.

 

[M18CTID]

No, the moment Balotelli decided to stamp on the head of a grounded opponent he was going to get a four match ban. What did you expect Harry to say? "Nah it's alright, i mean he could have split his head open but that's all fairy dust with me, in fact i love it when players try to stamp on my boys, i want to see more of it.".

It is farcical that you are actually trying to blame Harry for getting Balotelli banned. One person in the universe got Balotelli banned, and that was Balotelli. If Defoe did that to Silva you would lose your shit.

It is not Harry's fault that Balotelli decided to be a petulant little c*nt.

Wouldn't have been my choice of words but thanks for attempting to get that message through!

There are two things that really grind my gears in football, and that is diving and deliberately trying to injure a player. I would have thought that a fan of the club who had to suffer through the Alf-Inge Haaland horror would be a bit more critical of players who try to do the same.

That's the issue though - how do you or anybody else know that he deliberately tried to injure Parker? Only Balotelli can answer that one. In all honesty it doesn't look great when slowed down. However, it didn't happen in slow motion and when viewed in real time it was all over very quickly. He clearly took a backward step towards Parker's head but you have to account for the fact that not only was he off balance, he was also shoved in the back by Modric. Add in the fact that he wasn't even looking at Parker when it happened and for me there are too many variables involved to say it was a deliberate attempt to injure the player but that didn't stop every man and his frigging dog queueing up to condemn him (it's not just Redknapp to be fair, far from it). As such, by not knowing if there was any intent, comparing it to Keane's assault on Haaland is way off beam.

It could be realistically argued that Lescott's challenge on Kaboul in the same game and Peter Crouch's disgusting eye-gouge were far more deliberate yet both players escaped punishment.

For me, Balotelli has probably been judged on his reputation where this incident is concerned and that is wrong.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

No, the moment Balotelli decided to stamp on the head of a grounded opponent he was going to get a four match ban. What did you expect Harry to say? "Nah it's alright, i mean he could have split his head open but that's all fairy dust with me, in fact i love it when players try to stamp on my boys, i want to see more of it.".

It is farcical that you are actually trying to blame Harry for getting Balotelli banned. One person in the universe got Balotelli banned, and that was Balotelli. If Defoe did that to Silva you would lose your shit.

It is not Harry's fault that Balotelli decided to be a petulant little c*nt.

Wouldn't have been my choice of words but thanks for attempting to get that message through!

There are two things that really grind my gears in football, and that is diving and deliberately trying to injure a player. I would have thought that a fan of the club who had to suffer through the Alf-Inge Haaland horror would be a bit more critical of players who try to do the same.

what i hate is selective treatment. balotelli 4 game ban and treated like a war criminal by the media. crouch the eye gouger hardly a word and no retrospective penalty. rooney looks some in they eyes while kick fuck out of them and the fa appeal to get his sentence reduced.

and how anyone can class roy keane assault on alf-inge haaland. with balotelli`s flash of temper and a stamp is beyond me. keane set out to cripple haaland something he later admitted to.

 

[IH8MUFC]

Balotelli's ban doesn't concern me. If it was another player at another club i would say he deserved it. It's the Kmopany ban that really annoys me. 4 games, well 5 including the rags game for an interception.

 

[Castiel]

I'm with the Spuds here, unfortunately. I don't know how you can all unconditionally defend Balotelli for that. I don't know if he intended to stamp on his head, but my theory is he intended to stamp out of frustration and happened to hit his head. Either way its malicious behaviour and fully deserves a ban. You can go look at the same people defending this condemning Pepe's stamp on Messi's hand in the classico thread, which makes it even more ridiculous.

As for Harry, this has been a long time coming.

 

[mcmanus]

He did say he watched the incident four or five times before taking the interview, do you really think if the situation the other way happened Mancini would be all smiles about the situation?

To be completely fucking honest I don't care if the dodgy **** had watched it 4 or 5 hundred times. In his outburst he was being judge, jury and executioner. From that moment on Mario was getting a four match ban.

No, the moment Balotelli decided to stamp on the head of a grounded opponent he was going to get a four match ban. What did you expect Harry to say? "Nah it's alright, i mean he could have split his head open but that's all fairy dust with me, in fact i love it when players try to stamp on my boys, i want to see more of it.".

It is farcical that you are actually trying to blame Harry for getting Balotelli banned. One person in the universe got Balotelli banned, and that was Balotelli. If Defoe did that to Silva you would lose your shit.

It is not Harry's fault that Balotelli decided to be a petulant little c*nt.

It's not Mario's fault that 'arry decided to be a hypocritical, lying, dodgy, tax-evading (alledgely), tapping up twat mith fuck all morals

 

[Manc in London]

I'm with the Spuds here, unfortunately. I don't know how you can all unconditionally defend Balotelli for that. I don't know if he intended to stamp on his head, but my theory is he intended to stamp out of frustration and happened to hit his head. Either way its malicious behaviour and fully deserves a ban. You can go look at the same people defending this condemning Pepe's stamp on Messi's hand in the classico thread, which makes it even more ridiculous.

As for Harry, this has been a long time coming.

I personally would not and could not defend what Mario did. However, Redknapp's behaviour in teh post-match interview was a disgrace. For him to state that Mario does this regularly was a blatant lie and an attempt to influence the FA.

This just adds to a long list of the reasons why I dislike Redknapp. A lot of Spurs fans don't like him either as he was always eager to have a dig at Spurs when he was manager at Portsmouth and West Ham. Some Spurs fans, like my missus, will never forgive him. She often turns the TV channel over if he is being interviewed.

 

[Crouchinho]

Harry talks out of his Arsenal a lot. I'd always take it with a pinch of salt really.

He's kind of like Fergie in someways, he just manages the club. He doesn't do it to please the fans and their isn't a love affair there at all, infact I don't think either really care about them.

Not like the way Liverpool love Rafa/Dalglish or Newcastle love Keegan.

I doubt he meant it anyway (on Balo) it was said straight after the game in the heat of the moment. To be fair, if the roles were reversed, Mancini and City fans would be pissed off. It's like when Figureo incident, waving the card in the heat of the moment.

I can understand fans being pissed off about Kompany and rightfully so, but Balotelli one is fair.

City and Spurs have been screwed a fair few times this season, it shows that we are not big enough yet to have the rub of the green. Not like United, Chelsea, Pool and Arsenal in the past where Gerards/Rooneys/Lampards/Terrys/RVP's can influence the refs with slight tumbles and dodgy offside decisions

I don't agree with decisions even themselves out after a while either. It's the biggest load of bollocks to justify poor reffing decisions

 

[josh_spurs]

A reliable source on twitter, well a spurs insider to be exact has said that Spurs will be bought by company AEG with Levy staying on as chairman. The new stadium will also go ahead as planned. AEG will give us (according to the insider) a nice big heap of cash for wages and players. This also happens as Mourinho coming out and saying after being asked (according to SSN) about Spurs he said he has a "soft spot" for them. With Mourinho seemingly wanting out of Madrid and Redknapp potentially going to jail and if not maybe England job, could AEG bring enough funds to tempt Mourinho to WHL? Also Leandro Damiao is edging ever closer to WHL from Internacional. It also helps with the fact Thayer have 1st choice on their players.

Now I'm not coming on here saying Mourinho to Spurs etc,, I just thought it would be appropriate for the Spurs thread.


Thayer = that we*

 

[stony]

A reliable source on twitter, well a spurs insider to be exact has said that Spurs will be bought by company AEG with Levy staying on as chairman. The new stadium will also go ahead as planned. AEG will give us (according to the insider) a nice big heap of cash for wages and players. This also happens as Mourinho coming out and saying after being asked (according to SSN) about Spurs he said he has a "soft spot" for them. With Mourinho seemingly wanting out of Madrid and Redknapp potentially going to jail and if not maybe England job, could AEG bring enough funds to tempt Mourinho to WHL? Also Leandro Damiao is edging ever closer to WHL from Internacional. It also helps with the fact Thayer have 1st choice on their players.

Now I'm not coming on here saying Mourinho to Spurs etc,, I just thought it would be appropriate for the Spurs thread.


Thayer = that we*

Spurs with 'arry at the helm doesn't invoke any fear. I'm happy with that combination. Spurs with money to spend on wages and Mourinho in charge ? That would be a worrying development but I'm not sure how your fans would adapt to the sort of football he plays.
It will be interesting to hear all your cronies in the media defending his tactics and off field shenanigans too.
If he came to City he would get hammered by the press. He might just get away without too much criticism at WHL.
One things for sure, the traditional top 4 would be a thing of the past.

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

A reliable source on twitter, well a spurs insider to be exact has said that Spurs will be bought by company AEG with Levy staying on as chairman. The new stadium will also go ahead as planned. AEG will give us (according to the insider) a nice big heap of cash for wages and players. This also happens as Mourinho coming out and saying after being asked (according to SSN) about Spurs he said he has a "soft spot" for them. With Mourinho seemingly wanting out of Madrid and Redknapp potentially going to jail and if not maybe England job, could AEG bring enough funds to tempt Mourinho to WHL? Also Leandro Damiao is edging ever closer to WHL from Internacional. It also helps with the fact Thayer have 1st choice on their players.

Now I'm not coming on here saying Mourinho to Spurs etc,, I just thought it would be appropriate for the Spurs thread.


Thayer = that we*

Spurs fans won't accept having money as it is wrong.

 

[Manc in London]

I'd be surprised. AEG would have to pay around £250m for Spurs and spend about £400m on the ground. A substantial transfer kitty would be £50-100m. They would be looking at c£700m. That's a huge amount of money for a club that is not a big name and has a lower profile than City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and United. Ashley struggled to sell NUFC with a readymade, large ground for a third of the price.

 

[samharris]

I'd be surprised. AEG would have to pay around £250m for Spurs and spend about £400m on the ground. A substantial transfer kitty would be £50-100m. They would be looking at c£700m. That's a huge amount of money for a club that is not a big name and has a lower profile than City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and United. Ashley struggled to sell NUFC with a readymade, large ground for a third of the price.

If you're gonna put down Tottenham then that is a prime example of how to do it.. :)

 

[r.soleofsalford]

I'm with the Spuds here, unfortunately. I don't know how you can all unconditionally defend Balotelli for that. I don't know if he intended to stamp on his head, but my theory is he intended to stamp out of frustration and happened to hit his head. Either way its malicious behaviour and fully deserves a ban. You can go look at the same people defending this condemning Pepe's stamp on Messi's hand in the classico thread, which makes it even more ridiculous.

As for Harry, this has been a long time coming.

i wont deny i think he meant to stamp on something which in it`s self is a red. but there are double standards here, otherwise why wasn`t more made out of the eye gouge by crouch. or the FA getting rooney ban cancelled, etc, etc.

and regarding the balotelli and parker incident i still havent seen evidence of actual contact.

what we all surely want as fans is confidence, that win lose or draw, it wont be decided by the inconsistancies of the officials, but by the efforts of two teams.

 

[M18CTID]

I'm with the Spuds here, unfortunately. I don't know how you can all unconditionally defend Balotelli for that. I don't know if he intended to stamp on his head, but my theory is he intended to stamp out of frustration and happened to hit his head. Either way its malicious behaviour and fully deserves a ban. You can go look at the same people defending this condemning Pepe's stamp on Messi's hand in the classico thread, which makes it even more ridiculous.

As for Harry, this has been a long time coming.

I don't see much if any unconditional defending of Balotelli mate so suggesting we're all doing it is a bit off.

I was disputing the idea that he deliberately went out to injure Parker and it seems that you agree and that if anything it was a knee-jerk reaction made in the heat of the moment. As it happens, I lean more towards that particular theory than him deliberately setting out to injure Parker or the opposite view that it was a total accident and he was trying to regain his balance.

I've not seen the Pepe stamp on Messi yet so can't really comment.

 

[stonerblue]

A reliable source on twitter, well a spurs insider to be exact has said that Spurs will be bought by company AEG with Levy staying on as chairman. The new stadium will also go ahead as planned. AEG will give us (according to the insider) a nice big heap of cash for wages and players. This also happens as Mourinho coming out and saying after being asked (according to SSN) about Spurs he said he has a "soft spot" for them. With Mourinho seemingly wanting out of Madrid and Redknapp potentially going to jail and if not maybe England job, could AEG bring enough funds to tempt Mourinho to WHL? Also Leandro Damiao is edging ever closer to WHL from Internacional. It also helps with the fact Thayer have 1st choice on their players.

Now I'm not coming on here saying Mourinho to Spurs etc,, I just thought it would be appropriate for the Spurs thread.


Thayer = that we*

Oh for fucks sake.............

 

[Andouble]

I'd be surprised. AEG would have to pay around £250m for Spurs and spend about £400m on the ground. A substantial transfer kitty would be £50-100m. They would be looking at c£700m. That's a huge amount of money for a club that is not a big name and has a lower profile than City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and United. Ashley struggled to sell NUFC with a readymade, large ground for a third of the price.

Agree with most of what you said, but it's probably easier to plunk down that much cash on a club in London rather than one that's in the northeast. Sure Newcastle area has less clubs around it than London but the tourism and marketing (things that make the money) would be more prevalent in London, IMO.