Without video replay they’ve got to go with what they see in real time, it’s how it’s always been ffs.
If the Lino had said he was sure about Lovren in that incident he might have allowed an overule, but he wasn’t, so he didn’t. He got the call wrong for the dive not the offside anyway, so it’s all a bit moot imo.
I didn't comment last night as I'd been up 20-odd hours and went straight to bed after the game, but I'd just like to make these points:
1) Spurs were well worth a point: we needed to go in three or four up by half time (and should have been). After about 55 minutes our legs just completely went, but's that's how we play the game.
Both big decision were right: I didn't like the ref saying he didn't know whether Lovren touched the ball or not -but he was still giving it. But Karius 'touched' him with his shoulder, tbh, in much the same way Suarez was brought down a few seasons back against Villa. A goalie can't dive out, spread themselves and pull away their hands at the last moment and expect not to get a pen against them. The second one was a pen too - a bit like the one Skrtel gave away at WBA a few seasons ago: he didn't see him and didn't mean to give it away, but he did.
I thought we did well out of VRA against WBA last week, so we shouldn't whine now. But I am irked at the Lovren thing (apart from him being a ****ing carthorse). When did they change that rule back? I remember being a young teenager in '78 at Goodison Park when we were 1-0 down to THAT Andy King goal. In the second half a through ball was played (by Case, I think) to David Johnson who was a yard offside. An Everton defender (Darracot?) stuck out a leg and diverted it to Johnson, who rounded the goalie to score against his old club, only for it to be promptly (and rightly) disallowed as the rule had just changed. So here's my question: if that through ball is a yard to the side of Lovren, but he cannot risk it going through to Kane in case the lino has missed the offside (you play to whistle and all that) and he stretches to intercept and just get a tip-toe deflection to put it in Kane's path - is it still onside? Seems terribly unfair.
As for that goalie and the equaliser - there was a time Tommy Lawrence would have simply come out and bounced that cross on the floor and picked it up. Clem would have caught it and threw it out to the halfway line in one movement to start another attack: why the **** can't goalies catch a ****ing ball any more?
But fair result, and I have to say that if we get top four this season it'll have to be at the expense of Chelsea, not Spurs. They will finish above us, they had a stronger bench than us and they've had their wobble. they're a better team, full stop.