Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth

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Small point , the Utd penalty was on Pogba. ( irrelevant to the point you are making ).
Just tonight example.
'They' say ''what difference does it make'' we still had 85 minutes to score, but plenty games finish 1-0 and it doesn't matter which minute you score. It would also have forced Bournemouth to attack more. Just like United are gifted a penalty against Villa, which changes the momentum. ''They didn't need the penalty because they still scored 3'' but that was after the gift.
Fernandes did the dive for the second penalty which, against all odds , was overturned
 
Research <laugh>
Spread it around mate, the whole league will be playing in red by 2022 :grin:
What's funny about research? It's easy to find. The finding in UK football was ststistically significant but doesn't prove bias because it is heavily influenced by Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal.
The conclusive evidence is from sports like Taekwondo where colours are assigned randomly for each bout but red wins on points more often. The clincher was a group of olympic judges being shown videos of previous bouts where the colours had been reversed. Red still won!
 
What's funny about research? It's easy to find. The finding in UK football was ststistically significant but doesn't prove bias because it is heavily influenced by Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal.
The conclusive evidence is from sports like Taekwondo where colours are assigned randomly for each bout but red wins on points more often. The clincher was a group of olympic judges being shown videos of previous bouts where the colours had been reversed. Red still won!
Like i said, change the colour of your kit. You could be PL champions next season <ok>
 
When it comes to exposing blatant bias and favouritism to certain clubs from the Northwest, United fans are just the same as their Pool counterparts, in complete denial and lightening quick to try and claim it doesn`t go on. A sure fire sign they know that it is indeed, very real.
 
When it comes to exposing blatant bias and favouritism to certain clubs from the Northwest, United fans are just the same as their Pool counterparts, in complete denial and lightening quick to try and claim it doesn`t go on. A sure fire sign they know that it is indeed, very real.
Or as a counter argument, maybe they have just had good teams for long periods recently?

It's all the refs fault, David Ike is right, the royal family are all lizards and the Rothchilds run the world.

Conspiracy theory's are great fun <laugh>
 
I don’t think a few lucky or against the grain wins will do much to be honest. I just think we’ve gone too stale and have too many average to poor players at the club to realistically achieve our ambitions.

We don’t have a top four calibre defence any more.
We don’t have a top four calibre midfield.
Son continues to have spells of brilliance and mediocrity and Kane has yet again had injuries and is currently receiving little to no service. Combine all of that and it’s not really a surprise to me to see where we are in the table.

For sure, there has been dodgy decisions and you could say we’ve had more than our fair share of bad luck but ultimately we’re just not very good either, or more to the point, not good enough for where we want to be.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before but go back to 16/17 and look at our XI and then compare it to now.

Hugo
Walker, Toby, Jan, Rose
Wanyama, Dembele
Son, Eriksen, Dele
Kane

At that particular period, we had an XI of players who were easily in the top four best of their position in the country. We arguably had the best XI in the league that year, we just lacked the squad depth to have seen us over the line.

Fast forward to now, I’d say only Hugo (just!), Lo Celso, Son (although he needs a massive rocket) and Kane would make the XIs of all or some of the other top four/ top six sides. Four out eleven starters... Damning.

Jose hasn’t really helped matters either, his style of play can be hard to watch when you’re not winning games and depending on what side of the fence you sit, his treatment of certain players may or may not irritate you but ultimately I will still reserve judgement on him until he has more of his own players. He is dealing with a team that is nowhere near where it used to be.

Personally I just can’t wait for the season to end.
You may have a point BUT confidence is key here IMO.
As soon as a team go one up they start to play with a certain air and less nerves.
As soon as a couple of results go in your favour , you have an extra spring in your step.
The opposite is also true.
And referees can have a huge influence, both in giving and taking that confidence out your game. Since coming back, we've been on the wrong end of two penalty decisions against UTD ( although the second gets overturned by VAR it still affects confidence and your willingness to tackle in the area).
A good goal wiped off against Sheffield and a red card not given.And today a penalty not given. Those same good players start to doubt themselves and their ability. They will see who the ref is for the NLD and have no confidence.
 
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Or as a counter argument, maybe they have just had good teams for long periods recently?

It's all the refs fault, David Ike is right, the royal family are all lizards and the Rothchilds run the world.

Conspiracy theory's are great fun <laugh>
True colours showing Diego
Keep it down or I report you for that comment
 
Or as a counter argument, maybe they have just had good teams for long periods recently?

It's all the refs fault, David Ike is right, the royal family are all lizards and the Rothchilds run the world.

Conspiracy theory's are great fun <laugh>
There isn't a conspiracy but there is bias. I was going to say that surely you can tell the difference but......
 
This helps....NOT!

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, the Premier League has told BBC Match of the Day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53357841


So points are adjusted? Games replayed? Or clubs just lose out? this can cost clubs a lot of money and it affects players confidence going forward,
 
This helps....NOT!

Incorrect penalty decisions were made by the video assistant referee in all three of Thursday's games, the Premier League has told BBC Match of the Day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53357841


So points are adjusted? Games replayed? Or clubs just lose out? this can cost clubs a lot of money and it affects players confidence going forward,

This is shocking - we all know that's its true and despite supporters of others teams saying that we are obsessed we are on the wrong of these decisions too often.

For the authorities to admit that they were wrong does not make things better.

I believe we are fully within our rights to ask for Oliver to be taken off the our match on Sunday, we should be in communication today with the FA, and with IFAB to state that we have lost confidence in this officials ability to referee our matches in accordance with the laws of the game.
 
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To me it's simple, you use technology to check facts. This is what happens in Cricket and Tennis for example. In football that amounts to checking if the ball is over any particular line. They have changed the rules on handball to facilitate electronic decisions which removes the ability to judge if the handball is deliberate or accidental. They have changed the rule on offsides to exclude the previous, attacker is given the benefit of the doubt.
So what do we have with VAR? We have the decision of the on field referee and the decision of the off field referee. So we have more 'opinions' The referees check each other supposedly, do we really expect colleagues to rubbish each others decisions? Questions of bias are difficult to prove but poor decisions are there for all to see, The last two times we played Sheffield United the game was unduly affected by VAR decisions. One robbed United and the last game robbed Spurs. In both cases the game was spoiled by officials. All VAR does IMO is to reinforce poor decisions and to reduce 'offside' to a farcical fractions of millimetres nonsense.
Slowly football is moving in the wrong direction and the spontaneity of the game, which is what makes it the worlds most popular sport, is gradually being wrung out of it by the interests of 'money' and TV. If the FA and FIFA were really concerned for the 'game' they would reduce the role of VAR to line checking and return the other decisions which have always been about opinion, to the single referee on the pitch. We will still be frustrated by some of these decisions as we always have but they wont have a pseudo endorsement by a pseudo technology solution that just adds insult to injury.
 
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Don't know if anyone has seen this interview, but Jose looked and sounded royally p1ssed off with everything. The FA for bad scheduling, the players for not following instructions, VAR. Think what i found was that he was annoyed at the players for not taking advantage of an out of form team, but qualified some comments for saying that a lot them have run out of gas.
 
To me it's simple, you use technology to check facts. This is what happens in Cricket and Tennis for example. In football that amounts to checking if the ball is over any particular line. They have changed the rules on handball to facilitate electronic decisions which removes the ability to judge if the handball is deliberate or accidental. They have changed the rule on offsides to exclude the previous, attacker is given the benefit of the doubt.
So what do we have with VAR? We have the decision of the on field referee and the decision of the off field referee. So we have more 'opinions' The referees check each other supposedly, do we really expect colleagues to rubbish each others decisions? Questions of bias are difficult to prove but poor decisions are there for all to see, The last two times we played Sheffield United the game was unduly affected by VAR decisions. One robbed United and the last game robbed Spurs. In both cases the game was spoiled by officials. All VAR does IMO is to reinforce poor decisions and to reduce 'offside' to a farcical fractions of millimetres nonsense.
Slowly football is moving in the wrong direction and the spontaneity of the game, which is what makes it the worlds most popular sport, is gradually being wrung out of it by the interests of 'money' and TV. If the FA and FIFA were really concerned for the 'game' they would reduce the role of VAR to line checking and return the other decisions which have always been about opinion, to the single referee on the pitch. We will still be frustrated by some of these decisions as we always have but they wont have a pseudo endorsement by a pseudo technology solution that just adds insult to injury.

Good post. It slows the game down, means you can't celebrate goals anymore as var has to rubber stamp each one, and we're still getting loads of blatantly wrong decisions. So what's the point?

Completely ruined the game. Doubt I'll go to more than 2/3 matches next season.
 
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Good post. It slows the game down, means you can't celebrate goals anymore as var has to rubber stamp each one, and we're still getting loads of blatantly wrong decisions. So what's the point?

Completely ruined the game. Doubt I'll go to more than 2/3 matches next season.
Slowing the game is a very good point. We use to have two uninterrupted halves with a half time break. First we had substitutes, that are often used just to disrupt the flow if your team is the one on the wrong end of it. Then we added the 'ceremony' of showing different coloured cards, causing another break in the flow. Then the man with the magic sponge was replaced with an army of medics going through their procedures. Then come VAR for more interruption and finally (for the moment) a drinks break in case the poor darlings get too hot. So football starts to resemble American sports where 'decisions' are interrupted by the odd 5 minutes of so called sporting action.
And that's just the last 50 years. The game of two halves is no more.