Did he give the penalty for Brentford or the gooners? I remember at least one needing VAR.
Brentford one was the biggest joke of all when you see what hasn’t been given since
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Did he give the penalty for Brentford or the gooners? I remember at least one needing VAR.
Brentford one was the biggest joke of all when you see what hasn’t been given since
The Connor Gallagher match sponsored by the bald cunt
We had a clear pen turned down in the Brentford game as well. Gave pens to both teams.
The Eredivisie has been a 3 Team competition for YEARS...
Between Feyenoord, Ajax and PSV, they've pretty much had the monopoly on Dutch football as Rangers/Celtic have in Scotland...
We're one of 7,8,9 'big clubs', some of whom have ALL the luck (and ALL the money) so the wider football community can choose to hate us for other reasons...
Let's face it, we've HARDLY dominated English football for the last 40 years, and swept all before us, hoovering up EVERY trophy on offer...
Man Utd, Liverpool, Woolwich, Man City, Chelsea and fuck me, EVEN LEICESTER have all won league titles in the time since we won a major trophy...
And yet the hatred towards us persists... What the FUCK have WE done to so offend anyone, and ignite such HATRED... cos it's certainly not bourne out of JEALOUSY for our multiple trophy winning SUCCESS!
So yes, good question, WHY exactly IS that I wonder?
It’s the social dynamics of in-group vs out-group bias. Arse, Chavs, Spam, ManUtd, Pool all have a pecking order where they respect one another (Arse and Chavs regard themselves as worthy equals, West Ham accepts that they are a level below this and therefore are unthreatening to the status quo behavioral dynamics). We are outside of this group and so suffer them and their fans (including the refs and league officials) subconscious bias against us. It’s the same dynamics as playground bullying.There's a loony element in every fanbase convinced there's some conspiracy amongst the officials against their team, I'm sure.
A genuine question to our own conspiracy theorists though. Why us? Why do the officials decide to conspire against Tottenham Hotspur? What is it that sets our club apart from the rest that they have to plot against us?
You guys must have some kind of theory behind your thoughts
Add in the money/profit dynamic self -interest angle and you have perverse incentives that reinforce this behavior in a feedback loop.
Ignore human psychology at your own peril- or use it to your own advantage.
There is no excessive hatred towards us outside of London, apart from a few nutters at clubs like Leicester who pathetically see us as rivals.
I would say the most hated club in England is Man Utd, probably followed by Liverpool.
And the reason we don't win trophies like the other big clubs you mention is nothing to do with a conspiracy its because our owners don't have the desire to succeed on the pitch. It's all about financial gain and non football expansion.
After all, we used to regularly win stuff before them, and we'll regularly win again after them.
The reason I mentioned Ajax is they are generally perceived as a Jewish club, and you seemed to be suggesting that anti semitism is the basis of your conspiracy theory.
Also interesting that you mention Celtic. The west of Scotland has a history of anti Catholic/Irish discrimination, but there's no suggestion of it feeding down to the officiating of football matches.
I think the Celtic/Rangers thing is a unique situation, as they pretty much divide most of Scottish football, and are probably bigger than any Referees union that dares opposed either...
The Ajax thing is interesting, as (and I may be wrong) but I'm pretty sure Ajax fans Allied with Spurs fans in 1974 when we fought running battles with Feyenoord fans...
Why was THAT? Anything to do with Ajax feeling some sort of unity with their English/Jewish club counterparts...?
They are hated by Feyenoord for the same reason we're hated by Chelsea...
.it's just Ajax have more trophies and titles to show for it...
We've just become an easy target! We haven't helped ourselves, granted, but we're hated nonetheless fir reasons OTHER than footballing achievement!
He’s right.
28 games with Conte = 49 points
28 games with Ange = 53 points
Another comparison
First ten.
10 games with Conte last season = 20 points
10 games with Ange = 26 points
So the improvement is there. Whether it’s substantial or not depends on one’s point of view.
I think after 28 games with Conte we had played Chelsea, Liverpool away and beaten City. So that needs considering.
Once Conte walked, it frankly is not worth comparing. The end of last season was the worst ten games result / performance wise I want to recall. That said, Ange losing the next two would be 4 defeats minimum from the last 7, that’s awful.
Oh dear!
The ex Liverpool RB ? Wow.
I thought the dippers hate Tierney even more than we do
Will he want to make amends to them?
Surely you have to compare the last 10 of last season because the literal comparison is to where we finished last season?
I heard that about Woolwich and Oliver
No mate. It would be wrong to compare that chaos and crap with Ange’s final ten. Even I have to be reasonable.
But that's literally the comparison though
You want to compare him to Conte, go ahead but that's not my argument.
The point when I said "Getting 5th was progress" was that it was progression from when we finished 8th last season.