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ealingspur

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Oct 4, 2004
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Disgraceful dive :bang: have you ever played football? he anticipated a challenge and went down almost avoiding it...how any spurs fan can call one of our best players disgraceful is beyond me.

How's your prawn sarnie by the way?

What a twatish response. Yes I've played football and rugby for many many years, and I know that you anticipate falls, but this was not one of those occasions. This was a dive. Anyone else did it, then you would say the same.

ps so was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VxohXc99Hvc

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besty55

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Aug 29, 2011
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couldn't agree more. It really pisses me off when he scores from all angles and distances, wreaks havoc, demands a whole tactical game plan just to take account for him.

Jesus what I would do for Spurs to have some world class, box to box, pacy, athletic, freakish athletes.

Oh wait.......
 

Adam

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Feb 23, 2004
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Think the guy who has made the OP has been treated a touch harshly here.

First things first-Bale is a magnificent player. I probably wouldn't swap him for any winger around, and he is probably the best player at what he does in the world.

However, that doesn't mean he is beyond criticism, as with anyone.

The last few months, especially since the Norwich game, have seemed to trigger a slightly different attitude in the guy, with an extra level of confidence seeming to appear in his game. When we are winning and playing well, that will always seem brilliant, for example against Newcastle and Wigan, but in games where it's not going quite so well, such as against Wolves and in periods of the Everton and WBA games, he has come across as a touch arrogant at times in my opinion.

Is this a big problem? No, not at all. However, I can understand where the OP is coming from, as when things aren't going well, fans are always likely to pick on the flair/confident players as opposed to the proper grafters (Berbatov and Malbranque post the CC win for example). I for one have had the odd blast at Bale, especially in tight games where he has insisted on drifting central when the world and his wife could see that we needed a bit of width.

Anyway, not a big problem, but the guy who started the thread doesn't deserve this level of stick
 

besty55

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Aug 29, 2011
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the Stevenage crowd were on Bale yesterday. May well have led to his frustration. If this is something that affects him he needs to block it out.
 

steve

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Oct 21, 2003
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Agree with OP. Bale as he made plain in the ESPN interview aired pre Newcastle game sees himself as a free role, Ronaldo type player - right now he doesn't see himself long term at Spurs either.

He's tremendous technically and athletically but he IS lazy and half arsed at times tracking back although that has improved to an extent recently especially closing people down.

The dive at Liverpool was embarrassing btw.
 

Kendall

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Feb 8, 2007
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Bale has never tracked back properly. I've been saying for months he's the laziest player in the team when we don't have the ball. It's nothing new.

The frustrating thing about him recently is how wasteful he's been when he didn't really have to be.

In the past he was all about not making a mistake, waiting til the perfect time to play a killer ball etc, now he seems to have gone a bit Ginola and will shoot from anywhere - usually poorly.
 

besty55

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Aug 29, 2011
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He might not mind sheep as much.

Cant like the chimp song that many teams fans seem to have picked up.
 

Mr Pink

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Aug 25, 2010
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you can tell he's sensitive about his appearance,....needs to laugh it off really...

Didn't Harry make the comment, at one point, he was more concerned with his hair than getting stuck in etc....
 

sam1972

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Oh ffs we could have Messi and people would complain about what he doesn't do.
Sometimes I despair I really do
 

GDG

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Aug 25, 2004
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Blame Harry and his decision to go 5-3-2. Pre-season games or meaningless end of season fixtures are the times to start tinkering with formations, not the last 16 of the FA Cup. The players were all over the place by and large, though the player who was most dangerous was Rose, who was making the runs that Bale would normally be making.

The one pertinent moment, for me, when it was legitimate to criticise Bale, was towards the end of the game when he was forced in to left back - his positional sense was woeful and he got turned inside out at least once, makes you realise how much better we are when BAE is behind him and he has free license to maraud forwards. He may end up being able to play more centrally, he is a world class left winger, but he's a very average full back.
 

Bobbins

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May 5, 2005
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What a wanky load of responses to the OP - yes the suggestion that Bale now thinks he's too good for Spurs is stupid, but the point about his lack of workrate, particularly when he loses the ball, is totally valid.

He's been responsible for a few goals conceded this season where he's simply let players drift past him and not even gestured at tracking them back and covering. He let Silva go for the first City goal a couple of weeks ago for example.

Fortunately though he's bloody brilliant going forward and contributes massively to almost all of our forward play and gives us pace, power and versatility.

He could still track back better and work a bit harder though, so the OP has a valid point.

Oh and ealingSpur is right, he dives at least once a game; it's not "Spurs" and I don't enjoy seeing him (or Lennon...) do it.

Four pages of mostly nobbish replies talking shite under the impression that someone else can't have an opinion.
 

asianspur

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Apr 29, 2004
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We have a tread for What oppenent fans are saying.

Just imagine if another clubs fan post all this critism on bale, they would say we're bonkerscause he's been a world class player for us these 2 years. I enjoy Bale wide left, cutting inside or even mustard. Appericiate what you have....
 

sim0n

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Jan 29, 2005
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nothing wrong with Bale and he is truly effective at LW.

so, PLEASE leave him out there as every minute he plays on the right or in the middle is time wasted helping the opposition...

thank you :clap:
 

EastLondonYid

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Jan 26, 2010
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What a twatish response. Yes I've played football and rugby for many many years, and I know that you anticipate falls, but this was not one of those occasions. This was a dive. Anyone else did it, then you would say the same.

ps so was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VxohXc99Hvc

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Mate if you read all the pages after your thread,and read what most are saying, you may find that my response wasn't half as twatish than your post.
Bale is probably the most tackled/fouled player in the league, i think he is entitled to try and dodge the odd wild hack at him without his own fans suggesting it was a 'disgraceful dive'
 
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