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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

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Hugh DeMann

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To be honest, I'd prefer it if there needed to be a foul to award a penalty instead of the slightest brush. I always ask 'would that have won a free kick anywhere else on the pitch?' It's too ingrained in the game now for much to be done and Refs never give a penalty if a player stays on his feet. Harry Winks would have got one v City if he'd gone sprawling but he stayed on his feet and didn't cheat and it's a shame it's come to that.

I agree. Any foul that leads to a penalty has to have the same treatment a anywhere on the pitch. No ref guidelines say otherwise.

Even with spurs-tinted glasses on the Alli penalty was correct. The defender commits and Dele fools him into thinking he is making a cross and changes direction.

The issue is not this one but other times he has gone down too easy. He is getting a reputation so people will see tackles in a more cynical way.
 

luRRka

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on a Palace forum, a few of them have been saying Alli dived. A selection:

'Interesting listening to ex pros talk about dives for penalties......if he feels contact he has the right to go down...ffs no wonder it's rife in the game. I hear RLC may have dived for our pen....if true hope he gets 2 game ban. It's pathetic.
The way I see it....forwards can now run in to defenders to get a penalty. It's the same as when a player pushes the ball past an opponent then runs into him and get a a free kick. What is the opponent supposed to do? Disappear. Fair enough if he move to block him but often they don't move and a player is entitled to stand his ground....Fouls given when a player makes no attempt to play the ball and opponent comes in over back of him should go to the player who didn't jump but it doesn't it goes the other way for some odd reason'

(RLC = Ruben Loftus Cheek)

and a reply: 'Just goes to show how many ex pros are unthinking morons. Not sure why anyone with a genuine interest in the game wants to condone players conning referees and winning games by cheating.

Case in point, Deli Alli - shouldn’t even be on the ground.'

and another:
'Anyone else think Dele Alli going to get retrospective action for that dive for the pen? Bet it gets overlooked.

Hate Spurs. Vile team.'
That's rich from palace fans considering they have zaha who dives just as much, if not more than any of our players. He got 2 penalties last week, the first of which, he was about 2 inches from the floor before there was contact. Did he get retrospective action for that?

Yesterday was our first penalty of the season so it's not like our players throw themselves to the floor every match and win penalties
 

doctor stefan Freud

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That's rich from palace fans considering they have zaha who dives just as much, if not more than any of our players. He got 2 penalties last week, the first of which, he was about 2 inches from the floor before there was contact. Did he get retrospective action for that?

Yesterday was our first penalty of the season so it's not like our players throw themselves to the floor every match and win penalties
Never confuse football fans with wisdom
 

SpursDave88

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that's the problem, isn't it. Try to play on when fouled and don't get the decision, sell the foul to make sure you do, or just plain cheat.

Just see how the BBC's match report covered Alli (there's a thread on the front page here) and you get the feeling that for some players it is an uphill battle. MOTD's commentary of Alli's challenge yesterday was over the top, and when they go to Murphy in the studio he downplays it completely. Now he may be booted all over the pitch and not get the fouls he deserves just because the refs have it in the back of their mind that he might have dived. Bale had the same thing. Would be nice if things were fairer or clearer, but unfortunately the refs aren't always up to dealing with fast play in real time.

Murphy's analysis on Alli's tackle was absolutely correct in my eyes. To be honest I couldn't see what the fuss was about, he slides to block the clearance and makes minimal contact, a relatively harsh yellow IMHO. Because it's Alli people always want him to be sent off. Had Raheem Sterling done it, it would not have been a booking.
 
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spurslenny

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?
 

eViL

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Murphy's analysis on Alli's tackle was absolutely correct in my eyes. To be honest I couldn't see what the fuss was about, he slides to block the clearance and makes minimal contact, a relatively harsh yellow IMHO. Because it's Alli people always want him to be sent off. Had Raheem Sterling done it, it would not have been a booking.

I'm not so sure.

It was one of those 'oh ffs the ball rolled off my foot under no pressure AGAIN because I'm so fucking badly out of form so I'll chuck myself at this 50/50 I've created' tackles out of frustration.

I think he deserved the yellow because he caused the clash in the first place through sheer poor control.
 

southlondonyiddo

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?

Obviously a nazi
 

cider spurs

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?

C'mon lenny. Seems a bit of a vile question to me. :whistle:
 

L-man

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Irony of this being that Salah would be top if he didn't miss a penalty

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yiddopaul

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?
Except in Chelsea’s case.
 

SugarRay

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Irony of this being that Salah would be top if he didn't miss a penalty

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Clutching. They all know only too well that come May, Kane will be out in front on his own. Not sure why they are so precious about such things.
Golden boot isn’t a major honour. It’s a nice thing for a player to win, but doesn’t matter at all really.
 

sammyj

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?

But how else would you describe Chelsea
 

worcestersauce

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The better you are the more likely it is that other fans will find it hard to like you, fifteen years of plucky losers always have some good players but always a chance of beating them shame they're shit now, comments and as soon as you start winning regularly and challenging, the knives come out, it's just jealousy.
The only club that earned and carried the vile reputation even when they are relegated into their natural habitat is chelsea, due in no small part to their vile fans of course.:)
 

RichieS

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What' with the 'vile team' line that gets trotted out by fans about other teams?

Obviously not liking a team in a rivalry sense is understandable, but 'vile'???

That's an expression that just doesnt compute for me. Anyone else think it' a weird thing to say or think?
"Vile" seems to be a word that's come into common usage over the last little while but it seems a lot of people don't quite understand the subtle differences between words that mean roughly the same thing, so it gets used in places where it doesn't quite fit. It annoys me.

It's not as bad as "cringey" though. Whoever invented and then popularised this 'word' needs shooting.
 

stonecolddeanaustin

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Goals v all the spurs goals and in conclusion they're all a bunch of xxxxs and we're amazing. So there. Merry xmas you filthy and not so filthy animals!
 
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