edd_jedi said:
Can anyone explain to me how a team with Kane, Lamela, Son, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Moura, and Bergwijn on the pitch don't manage ONE shot on target in 113 minutes!? WTF is going on with this team, that was one of the worst performances I've ever seen from them in 30 odd years. Lazy, inaccurate, clumsy, it was like watching a Sunday league team play after a night out. Poch's Spurs were **** at defending and perhaps a bit wafty in midfield, but this Spurs team can't get anything right! If they can't get one shot on target against a team in the bottom three that just lost five nil, forget top 4, this Spurs team are lucky to be in the PL at all.
Snaketibe said:
I agree, they were dreadful. Yes they should have had a penalty early on (what the hell is VAR for if it can't grant a penalty when a player is shoved in the back, pushing him over in the box?), but Christ Almighty, they were only playing Bournemouth not Barcelona! Bournemouth, a team with 6 straight defeats behind them, and all Spurs can manage is to scrape a nil nil draw against them! Aurier was **** (as usual), Lamela was incredibly selfish and **** (as usual), Winks was ****, the team's passing as a whole was diabolical, and they only bothered to even try to start playing with 5 minutes to go!... I really fear for Spurs against the Arse on Sunday
I watched the game and I have to agree with every single word of that. That is one of the worst, dullest, games I have seen in a long long time. Bournemouth are gone, and Spurs looked every bit as lifeless as they did.
Jose doing a great job.
theforceuk said:
[mention]weasel[/mention] What you on about Man Utd sneaking in, were on the March!! :lol:
As for Spurs, one word. Jose.
A said to a few Utd supporting mates a week or so ago, I act fancied Utd for third as Leicester have imploded and Chelsea are no more than the tallest dwarf. Utd have been great in last 8 or so games, but if a team that was a **** as they were in the early part of the season, gets CL footy that is an indictment of how dreadful everyone else is.
As for that Utd penalty. HOW IN THE NAME OF GOOD **** IS THAT A PENALTY!??
Fernandes stands on the Villa defenders leg. HE fouls the defender. Then he screams like a bitch and rolls over. Ref falling for it, I get, he has 1 view in real time. But VAR WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? One replay of that from side on shows quite clearly it was NEVER EVER EVER a penalty. Yet the VAR review is over in 20 seconds. Decisions like that, and the Spurs non pen (I haven't seen Saints Everton but apparently it had a shocker too) make you wonder why we have VAR.
I get that there will always be a degree of contentious-ness. "was it a foul" or "is their enough contact for a pen" even "was it inside or outside the box" but that Fernandes one is the definition of a clear and obvious error. Exactly what VAR was brought in to remove from the game. FFS those esteemed and totally neutral pundits, GNev, Patrice Evra and Peter Schmeichel ALL said it was a nonsense. If VAR can't see that as a non foul then we need to look again at who is doing VAR as they are clearly retarded.
That rant isn't cos the decision favoured Utd. The game was poor but Utd would probably have won anyway, and I don't like Villa/Grealish and will be happy to see both back in the Championship. I am more pissed off at how blatantly wrong the decision was and yet VAR do nothing. Added to the non-goal SU were denied cos goal line tech wasn't turned on and VAR didn't feel any need to step in (seriously, WTF!?!?!) the fact FIFA are taking over the running of VAR from next season can't come soon enough. The referee's have made an utter utter shambles of it. I'm genuinely not sure they could have buggered it up more without actually deliberately trying. And they get paid for doing this. Anyone reading this could do a better job.
edd_jedi said:
So VAR have confirmed Spurs should have had a penalty. What the actual ****? If we miss out on the Europa League by 2 points, who's going to pay the revenue lost? Ridiculous. I know Wolves have famously suffered more than their fair share from VAR, but Spurs have got to be up there too.
Or if Bournemouth stay up by a pt/GD who is going to compensate the side who go down in their place? (Assuming the pen was scored and Spuds would have won.)
