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VonnegutBusy said:
Lets not let the VAR controversy take away from what was another shite performance.

We fight so hard to get into the big boys competition and then mostly serve up dross.

Boohoo the players have to go get a point in Marseille next week. If they can't do that they don't deserve to be in the last 16 anyway.
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I think you are another ignorant Tottenham "fan" who blames the team when they are robbed. Chelski, Arse-nil, Liverpoo, all have bad days then the refs give them the softest dives which Spurs never get. Spurs don't even dive.

I'm not picking on you but all so-called Spurs fans who give excuses to hostile refs. There is definitely a conspiracy against Totttenham and when you have billions involved it's serious.

They do not want Google or Amazon to sponsor the stadium, so by making Spurs a lesser team will put the investor off. The media is also against Spurs, look at it like the anti-Trump stuff in America.

I wish some Spurs fans would wake up and smell the coffee....
 
1882 said:
Who thinks we're at that level?
We're not, we're wildly out of place in the CL.... Whisper it, but to some if Europe's elite, WE'RE the fucking Farmers!!!

We're not gonna win it, which is why dropping into the Europa League might not be the worst thing.... but to some, that's way beneath us.... it's not... it's about where we are.... which is why ArseAnal will fancy their chances in it... Maybe we'll meet in the Final, who knows?

Either way, whoever takes it seriously, wins the thing!
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Highest season ticket prices in world football isn't it? Manager on £15m per year... Best stadium in the world... Top 10 richest clubs in the world...

Someone at the club certainly thinks we're part of the elite, and fans are perfectly right to expect better than what's being served up.
 
Irrelevant where the ball went backwards/forwards, whether it hit the defender, whether he intended to play it, where his foot was onside/offside etc...

Taking 5 mins for a call like that is disgraceful, that's the worst part about this, you can't come to a decision like that after 5 mins because it means you're guessing, the authorities use of VAR is an absolute shambles.
 
VonnegutBusy said:
Lets not let the VAR controversy take away from what was another shite performance.

We fight so hard to get into the big boys competition and then mostly serve up dross.

Boohoo the players have to go get a point in Marseille next week. If they can't do that they don't deserve to be in the last 16 anyway.
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I was there tonight.

First half poor, second half we could have scored 5 or 6, with better finishing or a better final ball.

Admittedly they had 2 or 3 decent chances on the counter

Their goalie is worth looking at. Very accomplished I thought.

We are missing creativity but also a confident Son, who did not stop running and a younger Kane.

We weren't great overall but we were easily good enough to have won..
 
Larry David said:
At what point do we stop blaming managers and blame the players?

Dier missed 3 tap ins tonight, kane and son played like shit, perisic has been dreadful since coming in. Bentancur is the only one I can praise from tonight really, maybe Romero

Lloris is dreadful and has been for a while

We’ve had dozens of managers and none have made a difference, either it’s them or the constant, which is the players.

Conte won the title with an inter squad that’s worse than ours let’s be honest. We’ve got so much dross we need to flush out and we keep buying more, paritici needs to be given complete transfer control and if he’s shit we’ll sack him and move on, but these ‘club signings’ need to stop, conte doesn’t want them
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I hope this isn't entirely true cos a major slice of the fanbase want Skriniar, D'Vrij, Bastoni, Barrella, and Hakimi (+ Perisic before his arrival and not long ago Brosovic) here!

That's 7 of his Inter starting line-up! :mourcry:
 
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Airfixx said:
I hope this isn't entirely true cos a major slice of the fanbase want Skriniar, D'Vrij, Bastoni, Barrella, and Hakimi (+ Perisic before his arrival) and not long ago Brosovic here!

That's 7 of his Inter starting line-up! :mourcry:
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It's definitely not true. Inter had a far more balanced team than we do.
 
Shadydan said:
Irrelevant where the ball went backwards/forwards, whether it hit the defender, whether he intended to play it, where his foot was onside/offside etc...

Taking 5 mins for a call like that is disgraceful, that's the worst part about this, you can't come to a decision like that after 5 mins because it means you're guessing, the authorities use of VAR is an absolute shambles.
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Yeah why not set a 1 minute timer?

If you can't decide within that then it is not an obvious error and you go with the ref/lino's decision.
 
Shadydan said:
Conte said that bigger teams don't get that call against them, he's right.
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Instead of playing the poor down trodden little spurs routine , he should be focusing on whipping these feckless excuses for footballers into shape

If we could actually be bothered to turn up at kick off time rather than the last 20 when we're chasing the match , perhaps we wouldn't be reliant on 95th minute winners against the 4th best team in portugal

Just a thought
 
Herclueless said:
Highest season ticket prices in world football isn't it? Manager on £15m per year... Best stadium in the world... Top 10 richest clubs in the world...

Someone at the club certainly thinks we're part of the elite, and fans are perfectly right to expect better than what's being served up.
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Well then we wanna spend a bit more of that wealth buying up a few decent VAR decisions and paying off some more refs!!
That's how it works in the wonderful world of football's bottomless money pits isn't it?
 
iz futbal said:
It would only be not offside if the defender has deliberately played the ball in that area.If its a deflection/block that makes the ball randomly go towards kane, then its offside.
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What is the defender there and in the path of the ball for other than to be deliberately be in a defensive action?
 
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