Match Threads Burnley vs Spurs - Match Thread

Sandros Shiny Head · Feb 23, 2019

TheVoiceofReason said:
Literally the definition of 90% of male football pundits

At least they've won things and played at the highest level, what's her level compared to the game she's talking about. You could have non league players in her role with the same experience but she's there for being female, tokenism

ardiles&villa · Feb 23, 2019

yankspurs said:
You gotta respect Dean’s dedication to the craft. Always the headline grabber

I find that he makes it entertaining..even though we were Victims of it today lol

tooey · Feb 23, 2019

Sandros Shiny Head said:
It was pretty obvious, the ball literally couldn't have bounced the direction it did if Vertonghen touched it last

It definitely could have though. Just because one player gets the last touch it doesn't mean the ball goes the opposite direction. It's called a deflection. The officials got it wrong but I'm calling bullshit on anybody who calls that an obvious decision.

EastLondonYid · Feb 23, 2019

Bad Day at the office today especially from Poch, started with imo wrong formation and got substitutions completely wrong.
Foyth off for Moura at Ht was what we were crying out for.and back to a diamond

teok · Feb 23, 2019

The Long Suffering One said:
Poch told Dean "repeat what you said to the camera.. repeat it" Poch had actually walked away from the initial inquest then turned round to confront Dean..

What did he say?

spursfan77 · Feb 23, 2019

Poch is never like this. It’s so not him. He’s just had enough of Dean as much as we have.

Ledders Army · Feb 23, 2019

alexn_spurs said:
The referee wasn't to blame today, we let ourselves down with numerous poor individual performances. We can't blame fatigue either - it's just a bad day at the office. As someone rightly mentioned, this has been coming following a number of games where we won but didn't deserve to.

Hope Poch doesn't blame this fully on the ref in his interview. For years we've praised his class when handling these situations and rightly castigated others (Mourinho, Wenger, Klopp etc) when they've gone the other way.

The ref wasn't to blame today but i think it's important for poch to take it out on dean. He's given us nothing for years despite the media narrative that he's a spurs fan & it's about time it was highlighted just how bad he's been for us in recent games. We're 3rd in the league & haven't had a penalty at home all season which is pretty incredible when you think of the possession stats so can't see it hurting poch publicly attacking an official.

Fergie & Jose were masters of deflecting the blame from the team after a defeat. We all know the media are gonna go full 'spursy' on this defeat, Durham will probably get a week of shows out of it so why not try to deflect the blame?

Monkey boy · Feb 23, 2019

This is why I hate these kick off times. Weekend literally ruined before it’s really begun.

idontgetit · Feb 23, 2019

The mess up today was Poch's. Went 5 at the back maybe to combat Burnley's physicality but why then have Foyth come in as the 3rd CB when he's not the big physcial type? Sanchez or Dier would make sense. And then at wingback you have Aurier who isn't a top attacking player. If we were four at the back we could have had a much better wide attacking player like Moura or had the extra defending playing screening the defence.

Blackrat1299 · Feb 23, 2019

We had a team of holograms out there today.

Chimbo! · Feb 23, 2019

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I thought taking Winks off backfired. After he went off Burnley had more success punting long balls. And that’s because even if we won the first header, Burnley were getting to the second ball. Winks would have been getting to those.

spursfan77 · Feb 23, 2019

teok said:
What did he say?

Hopefully Poch tells us. He should.

nailsy · Feb 23, 2019

ernie78 said:
Really?After their 1st goal
It looked like Poch was saying something to Dean and clapping. I wonder what Dean could’ve said?

Apparently Poch was shouting at him "What did you say? What did you say?"

He's just refused to discuss it in the interview.

Sevens · Feb 23, 2019

nailsy said:
I don't see why you have to be a footballer at all to talk about the game. Most of the best football journalists have never played professionally. I'd rather see some of them in the studio than someone like Redknapp.

I disagree. It's a case of earning the right or at least understanding the culture. That's why you have the presenter and the pundits should be SMEs that understand not just what is going on the pitch, but the mentality and culture off of it.

Having her as a pundit is nothing more than a box ticking exercise. That said the problem with most pundits is that they are too PR focused anyway. Shame more of them don't just actually say what they think.

And there is a good football journalist?!

g_harry · Feb 23, 2019

Exactly same as wolves game, we were up first and can put pressure on teams ahead and we can't do it. It's very disappointing not only to get result but they way we have played in both those games. So fucking close

tooey · Feb 23, 2019

Sandros Shiny Head said:
At least they've won things and played at the highest level, what's her level compared to the game she's talking about. You could have non league players in her role with the same experience but she's there for being female, tokenism

Exactly what they used to say about anybody who wasn't caucasian doing punditry in the 80's. Tokenism. She's got more right to talk about the game than you have.

worcestersauce · Feb 23, 2019

That is a bloody shame. It was a street fight from the start, Burnley brought knuckle dusters we brought kid gloves, sad thing is today was the kind of game we really miss Dele, regimented defending like Burnley's is comfortable against the standard attack but it's weakness is the unexpected and that is Dele's skill.
Burnley's advantage is that they don't have to try to score they only have to try to get a corner, sure they'll try to score if the chance arises but they don't expect to get many so they increase the odds by trying to get corners.
We did not bottle anything we lost, it's one thing Adrian Durham saying we bottled it but it really pisses me off when our own fans parrot it too.

Paolo10 · Feb 23, 2019

mquinn73 said:
He was dreadful today. Not the right man for the job. Should've been Trippier for a February game up north against his former team. Another error in selection/tactics from Pochettino.

We got bullied today, plain and simple.

Same issue with Foyth - Poch might think he has great potential (personally, I have my doubts - and he was at fault for the first goal) but today wasn't the day for him.

Poch seems to pair Foyth with Aurier a fair bit, although I've seen them both have some nice interplay between eachother, they're both prone to giving it away cheaply and making some poor decisions. Just seems like an accident waiting to happen.

Missed Sanchez today too IMO. Hope that Trippier and Sanchez play in both the derbies tbh.

theShiznit · Feb 23, 2019

What a great start to the weekend of sport...

Think i'm just gonna bin the rest of the sport off and immerse myself in a three day VR porn binge, so i can feel like I'm fucking some giants. if anyone knows of any medieval VR porn let me know so i can pretend i am Tyrion from GoT. :cautious:

dondo · Feb 23, 2019

Archibald&Crooks said:
I'll return your dummy to you when I find it.

Meanwhile, the team has done magnificently well to stay in the conversation for as long as they have, doubly so when you consider that all of you were writing them off and having exactly the same hissyfits after the Wolves game, again after the United game and then again when Kane got injured and then again actually DURING games where we scored late, late winners. Bottle, bottle bottle, you can't wait to use it. It's lazy and it's pathetic.

When exactly did we bottle it? After Wolves, during a couple of games after 80 minutes? Today?, or if we lose another game?

Jesus fucking christ. It's like mothercare on acid around here when the bad news hits.

Nice up there on your pedestal is it?
Taking the moral high ground your not suppose to throw insults about are you? Good job on the admin?
We have done extremely well over the last few years and we are punching well above our weight but the simple truth is, when we get close to achieving something we blow it.

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