Match Threads Spurs vs Liverpool - Match Thread - Champions League Final

[worcestersauce]

If you are pointing to tell your colleague where to go is that an unnatural postion?

 

[scat1620]

If you are pointing to tell your colleague where to go is that an unnatural postion?

Yes, and rightly so, IMO.

 

[Shadydan]

If you are pointing to tell your colleague where to go is that an unnatural postion?

Yep apparently, it's BS but it is what it is...those are the current laws of the game. Won't be surprised if they get changed again soon due to controversy and more incidents like this.

 

[worcestersauce]

Yep apparently, it's BS but it is what it is...those are the current laws of the game. Won't be surprised if they get changed again soon due to controversy and more incidents like this.

I agree, I really think this is going to lead to a heap of trouble and they will have to look at it again, the idea that players won't intentionally try to hit opponents arms to get a penalty is naive to say the least.

 

[Shadydan]

I agree, I really think this is going to lead to a heap of trouble and they will have to look at it again, the idea that players won't intentionally try to hit opponents arms to get a penalty is naive to say the least.

Just wait until it affects Real or Barca or a big team like that, you watch the uproar it causes that's when the rule will change. No one cares about little old Spurs

 

[dagraham]

If you are pointing to tell your colleague where to go is that an unnatural postion?

How far do you take that argument though? What if you went full Tony Adams?

 

[Ionman34]

Did anyone else notice the ball hitting TAA on the hand in the 1st half as he was running back to cover?
By the same law that saw Sissoko give a pen, so should this have been a pen, as it seems hitting the hand or arm regardless is what UEFA instructed.

Does it really come as a surprise though that they got the “benefit of the doubt “ and we didn’t?

 

[slartibartfast]

I've hardly moved off the sofa today. I really can't be bothered with anything other than Xbox.

I've hacked the bush down near my front door. It really fkin got it lol.

 

[UbeAstard]

UEFA's rules say that if the ball hits your arm and its in a unnatural position then it's a pen, can't see why there's a debate?

The debate is whether that rule is fair or not. The game is still evolving and it wouldn't surprise me if they tweek that rule at some point.

 

[Shadydan]

The debate is whether that rule is fair or not. The game is still evolving and it wouldn't surprise me if they tweek that rule at some point.

Literally what I just said

 

[slartibartfast]

Changing the rules AFTER Spurs get shafted???
Surely not

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Yep apparently, it's BS but it is what it is...those are the current laws of the game. Won't be surprised if they get changed again soon due to controversy and more incidents like this.

The debate is whether that rule is fair or not. The game is still evolving and it wouldn't surprise me if they tweek that rule at some point.

Literally what I just said

Of course, now THFC has suffered because of a ridiculously stupid rule, there will be an amendment to it, to ensure it never happens again. Just like the 4th place PL rule was amended after we missed out on CL qualification when Chelsea won it.

It's as though rules are maintained just long enough to ensure we all suffer and then, once we have, it's OK to change them so that no other club suffers what we've had to.

Football is a cruel bastard when you're one of us.

 

[slartibartfast]

Of course, now THFC has suffered because of a ridiculously stupid rule, there will be an amendment to it, to ensure it never happens again. Just like the 4th place PL rule was amended after we missed out on CL qualification when Chelsea won it.

It's as though rules are maintained just long enough to ensure we all suffer and then, once we have, it's OK to change them so that no other club suffers what we've had to.

Football is a cruel bastard when you're one of us.

Hold up....


We're sounding like Liverpool fans here lol. I take it back. Stone wall pen, great decision, thems the rules and the best team won.

 

[homer hotspur]

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Just wait until it affects Real or Barca or a big team like that, you watch the uproar it causes that's when the rule will change. No one cares about little old Spurs

PSG against Man Utd?

 

[shelfboy68]

Not sure why we are going on about the penalty still leaving your arm out is asking for trouble and 30 secs in was ridiculous.
We had around 88 mins after it went in to turn it around which we failed to do instead passing the ball along the front of their attack then back to lloris appeared to be the tactic, so no- one to blame other than ourselves for an act of stupidity and failure to venture forward.

 

[slartibartfast]

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PSG against Man Utd?

That was a shocker.
That one, Rose' pen against Man City and last night. Not one of them was intentional hand ball.
Its bollocks decision making.
The powers that be do not like PSG so they fked them. They arent a big club, they are a rich club.

 

[JarBirl]

Mate I’ve seen salah and mane play plenty of times and can tell you they are far more of a consistent threat than any of our attacking players, they were also both joint top scorers this season! We have a better mix of players but they have 2 attacking wingers who are a level above ours (son and Lucas) in terms of goals assists and consistency. Partly this is because we play a different style to Liverpool but partly our attacking players just aren’t quite that good. I do agree on the full backs as they both got 10 assists and if swap both of theirs for ours even though rose is playing pretty well recently.

First of all I don't understand why we have to compare Lucas to the likes of Salah and Mane? These two are their two best goal scoring threats. Lucas isn't even our starter. We barely played him even in Kane's absence earlier this year and it's towards the very end of the season he finally started getting more game time and scoring (3 games in which he scored in 2019). Of course his stats won't compare to theirs?? Our best goal scoring threats are Kane and Son out of our front four. Kane has been unlucky with all these injuries all season and Son had to participate in two international competitions, etc. Played more games than anyone in the league in fact. Of course those two couldn't have have the same consistency and output??

Salah and Mane are not some Messi level attackers. As we have seen yesterday, they have poor games too. Salah went like almost 8 games without scoring. The difference is that when one is out of form the other(Mane) was available and shared the responsibility. We didn't have that luxury esp in the later part of the season. If they lost Salah to injury and Mane was out of form, do you think Origi would have stepped up and scored week in and week out?

Out attacking quality is fine. But our players have been going in and out of injury all season/been out of form together at the same time/etc and all I can say is that we have been simply unlucky.

Yesterday Salah wouldn't have scored if it wasn't for that lucky pen, Mane didn't score and had a poor game. Don't know what it's got to do with anything with them being a level above and such.
If we had all of our front four on form, we would have won.....


What killed the game was the early goal.

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

If the ref hadn't given it would VAR have intervened and insisted it was a pen? I don't think so. But once it was given I think VAR just thought it wasn't obviously wrong.

If that makes any sense

 

[TheBlueRooster]

The kind of instruction that may or not be applied depending on which team it might favour

The new law didn't apply when that happened.

Time to get over it. A penalty was correctly given no matter how harsh we think it was. We still had the whole match to put it righyand didn't.

 

[Capocrimini]

Im relieved thats over now!

So proud of the club, the way we dragged ourselves into the final, yes the performance was flat but we gave it ago. Whilst I hate this nearly man tag that follows us around, and we need a trophy ASAP no doubt, I am also so full of gratitude for the sheer joy this season has brought. The City/Ajax games, coming back home to WHL, and the spirit the squad have displayed throughout the year has been wonderful to watch.

As painful as yesterday was remember to ask yourself why do we support Spurs? Im in my 30s and missed out on the glory years.

Onus is on Levy/Lewis/Poch to start the new era of the project. We have a new stadium now, we have a core of classy players, and a fanbase who have paid through the nose to support the club. We need investment to take the next step and I am so optimistic and excited to see whats around the corner!

COYS