I thought he wasn’t too bad but asking to receive the ball from CBs almost at half way line with his back to goal is asking for trouble and not his remit as a wide forward. This is the FB should be to receive the ball and WF should be forward as it says on the tin. This is the problem when inverting FBs against low block teams. They basically get lost in the midfiekd quagmire abd are basically hidden. That’s why the CBs have no options apart from rolling the ball slowly to each other. Ange talked about space before the game but we made it worse. Davies might as well not have been playing. We need try to switch the ball quicker like we did for the 2nd goal. I’ve seen so many times where the opposition are able to ping the ball out wide from deep to wide player as we have our full backs tucked in so they have so much space. Then the FB has to make a run out to try to close down. By that time they have progressed to our pen box. We need to stop that and we need to start doing that but quicker and we will catch teams out more. A lot of our goals have come from getting the ball out wide and then crossing it although some of our crossing yday was bad. But we do get chances created this way.
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I agree with the larger point but clear and obvious is not in the laws when a goal scorer handles the ball. He did or he didnt.
(Get rid of var)
It was clearly handball from one camera angle and clearly off his chest from another camera angle - and this, in a nutshell, is why VAR is SHIT.
On a related note, amongst a crowd of dirty, fouling cheats, it must be said that Jordan Ayew stands out as the most reprehensible cunt of the lot. He got away with murder last night.
Just watching the game again, that 2nd goal was so so good. The pass from Sarr, the header on by Johnson and his willingness to then continue to drive into the box to be available for the return pass. The control by Madds, the pass by Madds, then the final ball into Sonny so he just had a tap in. Wow prime Spurs.
And I will say it, Johnson looks like prime Dele before he lost his head.
And I will say it, Johnson looks like prime Dele before he lost his head.
Part of the reason we got the second goal was because of their fans booing their team which in turn forced indiscipline on their players and we took advantage to move the ball up the pitch quickly and pick them off. I found it so satisfying and I bet Ange loved it too.
Not the PL but it’s what we did against Milan in that second leg when we needed a goal so badly. Pure Conteball nonsense.
Yeah, there was lots of talk about nice man Roy on the Ange thread before the game but we saw his true colours tonight, putting out a team that were trying to hobble our players.
Dirty gits, Edouard and Ayew got away with a lot.
Agreed, I mean ffs just look at the trajectory of how the ball bounced off him in relation to the angle the ball came into him. Cowardly simpletons the lot of them
Beautiful pic
Although I can tell they're a bit miffed that that tattooed chap is still on the pitch
Unfortunately it looks like one of those weekends where the fixture calendar has thrown up manageable wins for all the top teams. You never know but I’ll be astounded if Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea don’t win their games.
Spurs last 30 fouls - 5 bookings
Last 31 fouls against Spurs - 0 bookings.
No agenda though. Cunts.
Last 31 fouls against Spurs - 0 bookings.
No agenda though. Cunts.
Fans were amazing to be fair - row 41 view was shocking but palace kindly put a 26in tv on the gantry above our heads so we got to watch a bit of the game - throw in a 5 hour drive down the m40 and I was questioning my sanity but come the final whistle I wouldn’t swap a thing COYSHave to say the away support (as is the norm I guess) was fucking immense last night. Came through so loud on the telly, so must have been amazing for the players. My daughter (who wasn't really watching but was sat with me) said those spurs fans are so loud but they aren't at home.
She's learning.
Of all the forms of esotericism and magical thinking, few are as idiotic as numerology.NBC just mentioned this is the first time we have been 5 pts clear since 1961...
Didn't something else big happen in '61?
That said...
1961: 1 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 17. 1 + 7 = 8
2024: 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8
See he maybe a venerable old gentleman man...but He's actually a South London gangsta (MR W) all his years are like that. And no one you aside ever points it out.
What's happening? "LUPUS! IS IT LUPUS!!!Of all the forms of esotericism and magical thinking, few are as idiotic as numerology.
That said...
1961: 1 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 17. 1 + 7 = 8
2024: 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8
Nah, I was washing my hair.
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