The Footie Thread

[Fade and Die]

Nearly £200 million quid spunked on 9 new players to improve the team and yet only one can make the starting line up against Fulham...and that was a 30+year old has been who eventually got rightly hooked after an hour.

Lucky 0-1 (og) win with a possession percentage of 23% (lowest percentage for a prem win this season) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

 

[fundy]

Nearly £200 million quid spunked on 9 new players to improve the team and yet only one can make the starting line up against Fulham...and that was a 30+year old has been who eventually got rightly hooked after an hour.

Lucky 0-1 (og) win with a possession percentage of 23% (lowest percentage for a prem win this season) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

Laugh theres going to be a handful of sides feel fortunate to stay up this season, looks more likely youre one of them. Be interesting to see if theres are changes in the summer even if you do stay up too

 

[Billysboots]

Nearly £200 million quid spunked on 9 new players to improve the team and yet only one can make the starting line up against Fulham...and that was a 30+year old has been who eventually got rightly hooked after an hour.

Lucky 0-1 (og) win with a possession percentage of 23% (lowest percentage for a prem win this season) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

At this stage of the season I think I’d be taking what I can get. All about getting to the end of the season for those in the bottom half, regardless of how it’s done.

 

[Fade and Die]

Laugh theres going to be a handful of sides feel fortunate to stay up this season, looks more likely youre one of them. Be interesting to see if theres are changes in the summer even if you do stay up too

I think we only need 1 change.

 

[PJ87]

Nearly £200 million quid spunked on 9 new players to improve the team and yet only one can make the starting line up against Fulham...and that was a 30+year old has been who eventually got rightly hooked after an hour.

Lucky 0-1 (og) win with a possession percentage of 23% (lowest percentage for a prem win this season) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

to be fair paquata was injured and benny / aguard are fasting atm so were given more recovery time

whilst i agree moyes needs to go in summer I dont think its a stick to beat him with

 

[GG26]

Leicester were just lamentable for 55 mins today. No desire, no idea, no drive. We are going down. At least we made an effort for the last half an hour after Daka and Ihanacho came on, but too little too late

 

[Billysboots]

Leicester were just lamentable for 55 mins today. No desire, no idea, no drive. We are going down. At least we made an effort for the last half an hour after Daka and Ihanacho came on, but too little too late

The real danger, given the run they are on, is being cut adrift at the bottom with Southampton. But if you’re losing at home to Bournemouth I can’t see that run ending any time soon.

 

[Jensen]

Well it’s clear that the problem at Tottenham for years has been Daniel Levy. The ONLY thing he’ll be remembered for was overseeing the development of the new stadium.
His botched running of the club for far too long filters ALL the way down. It’s blatantly obvious it’s time for him to go.
So goodbye Daniel.

 

[Slime]

Just watching MOTD, oh, just how lucky were Spurs?

 

[Jensen]

Just watching MOTD, oh, just how lucky were Spurs?

Extremely and how hard done were Brighton

 

[Slime]

B'ton were robbed, it was quite remarkable.

 

[Hobbit]

Just watching MOTD, oh, just how lucky were Spurs?

Blew my Super6…

 

[Deleted member 15344]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1644932334565613571

Shocking

 

[Hobbit]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1644932334565613571

Shocking

Reminds me of a Utd ‘v’ Arsenal match at Old Trafford, i.e. so incompetent it’s looks corrupt.

 

[clubchamp98]

B'ton were robbed, it was quite remarkable.

You do wonder what VAR was seeing or not seeing there.
Total incompetence.

 

[fundy]

Not sure its just incompetence when 5 or 6 big contentious decisions all are given in one teams favour, gets to the point statistically of being some level of bias whether conscious or sub conscious

I see PGMOL have issued their 3rd apology to Brighton this season, do they get to convert them into points or a prize at the end of the season?

VAR is a clear and utter disgrace in its inconsistency (and bias). Sadly its going to have a big say in how the season pans out, at least for some sides

 

[Billysboots]

Not sure its just incompetence when 5 or 6 big contentious decisions all are given in one teams favour, gets to the point statistically of being some level of bias whether conscious or sub conscious

I see PGMOL have issued their 3rd apology to Brighton this season, do they get to convert them into points or a prize at the end of the season?

VAR is a clear and utter disgrace in its inconsistency (and bias). Sadly its going to have a big say in how the season pans out, at least for some sides

Perhaps I’m a voice in the wilderness, but the more we talk about the sheer ineptitude of those running VAR, the more I’d like to see it done away with.

You can almost guarantee that, every week on MOTD, the pundits will be slating VAR in at least one game. The Spurs match yesterday was, frankly, appalling. Brighton can feel mightily aggrieved that they haven’t left with all three points, never mind one. And for a team like them, who are only going to qualify for Europe infrequently, if ever, repeated apologies will be no comfort if they miss out on the European places by a point or two.

As you rightly say, one error is bad enough - when they stack up, and all in favour of one side, some very serious questions need to be asked.

 

[clubchamp98]

Not sure its just incompetence when 5 or 6 big contentious decisions all are given in one teams favour, gets to the point statistically of being some level of bias whether conscious or sub conscious

I see PGMOL have issued their 3rd apology to Brighton this season, do they get to convert them into points or a prize at the end of the season?

VAR is a clear and utter disgrace in its inconsistency (and bias). Sadly its going to have a big say in how the season pans out, at least for some sides

It’s not VAR that’s bias it’s the same referees using it every week.
Humans are the weak link.
But yesterday they can look at that as many times as they like .
It beggars belief how Brighton didn’t get two penalties. Imo.
It’s undermining the system.

 

[clubchamp98]

Perhaps I’m a voice in the wilderness, but the more we talk about the sheer ineptitude of those running VAR, the more I’d like to see it done away with.

You can almost guarantee that, every week on MOTD, the pundits will be slating VAR in at least one game. The Spurs match yesterday was, frankly, appalling. Brighton can feel mightily aggrieved that they haven’t left with all three points, never mind one. And for a team like them, who are only going to qualify for Europe infrequently, if ever, repeated apologies will be no comfort if they miss out on the European places by a point or two.

As you rightly say, one error is bad enough - when they stack up, and all in favour of one side, some very serious questions need to be asked.

Questions are being asked but unfortunately we don’t get any answers.
if you or Me made such horrendous mistakes in work we would be asked to explain ourselves.
The VAR ref should not get that wrong and I agree they should bin it.
if the onfield ref gets it wrong fair enough, but there is no excuse for what happened in yesterdays game.
An apology makes it worse imo.

 

[Billysboots]

Questions are being asked but unfortunately we don’t get any answers.
if you or Me made such horrendous mistakes in work we would be asked to explain ourselves.
The VAR ref should not get that wrong and I agree they should bin it.
if the onfield ref gets it wrong fair enough, but there is no excuse for what happened in yesterdays game.
An apology makes it worse imo.

The penalty claim when Dunk’s shirt was pulled? I’d really like to see those given but more often than not they are turned down.

But the other one, where the Spurs defender clearly stood on the Brighton player’s foot? I cannot even begin to understand how that wasn’t given. The on field referee missed it from no more than ten yards with nothing impeding his view, and despite that surely being a clear and obvious error he was not then asked to review it. It’s just rank incompetence.