Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea

[Alfie Conn]

Tale of the tape
6: Kulu scores
14: son goal X VAR
18: Udogie yellow
21: Sterling goal X VAR
28: Caicedo goal X VAR
33: Cuti Red
34: Johnson subbed for Dier
35: Palmer goal pen
41: Ange yellow
12mins added time
45+1: VDV injured off Emerson on
45+1: Maddison injured off Hojbjerg on
45+10 :Sarr yellow
45+10: Jackson yellow
45+10: Colwill yellow
54: Udogie Red
75: Jackson goal
82: Dier goalX VAR
86: Gusto yellow
89: Mudryk yellow
9 mins added time
93: Jackson goal
96: Jackson goal
Not much else to report other than Vicario was a ****ing hero

 

[Crackermanjack2]

No point making excuses using the ref. It was all self inflicted and ultimately we got what we deserved. Fantastic credit to the 9 players and the fans. We move on. We have enough to get a result against wolves even with the missing players.

 

[The RDBD]

Think it may have been a joke that i haven't posted in a while until we won.

I have been quite busy recently and also got back from hk this morning so haven't been on much.

< Deirdre >

 

[Alfie Conn]

Anyone getting the idea that some one is desperate for a response on here?

Yeah **** him

 

[Left on the Shelf]

No idea what Oliver did wrong tbh.
Chelsea made a few fouls but did nothing to justify Udogie and Romero going full on pyscho

He lost control of the game - or rather never had control of it. It was Clattenberg all over again.
He let Chelsea get away with a few dodgy early fouls when we were on top. The odd free kick but no cards. The temperature rose, Udogies challenge was rash and Romero - for whom I have little sympathy - lost his cool.

Oliver wasn't helped by VAR, but he's a ref who seems to thrive in the limelight, which is seldom good for the game.

But I am very bitter

 

[remembercolinlee]

Off the top of my head he missed
- James elbowing Udogie in the face
- Diving being a bookable offence for Sterling
- Mudryk was casually fouling from the moment he came on

He was never in control of the match, in fact he made Mark Clusterfuck's performance at Stamford Bridge in 2016 look almost like somebody once told him the word "competence" exists, yet he was reluctant to card any of them until far too late in the game

Once again, we can thank Norbert for that, as we've had players kicking lumps out of us for weeks going unpunished all because of his pissing and moaning

Sorry but we ain't got any reason to complain about the ref. He could easily have sent Udogie off very early on and he let stuff go from all players on both teams.
IMHO he did not lose control of the match...Udogie and Romero lost their heads.

 

[Citizen Kane.]

Sounds like Maddison was withdrawn more as a precaution.

Good news.

Ange also makes some excellent points about VAR which every manager should be forced to listen to, chief of all Virgil Tracy down the road.

 

[remembercolinlee]

He lost control of the game - or rather never had control of it. It was Clattenberg all over again.
He let Chelsea get away with a few dodgy early fouls when we were on top. The odd free kick but no cards. The temperature rose, Udogies challenge was rash and Romero - for whom I have little sympathy - lost his cool.

Oliver wasn't helped by VAR, but he's a ref who seems to thrive in the limelight, which is seldom good for the game.

But I am very bitter

They were run of the mill fouls and none deserved cards IMHO.
The game was in our control until Udogie and Romero lost their heads imho

 

[Crackermanjack2]

The worst thing about this game is Van de Vens injury. We were going to lose sometime and we have 8 games in December! The reaction on Saturday will tell us a lot about this team and how far we have come

 

[remembercolinlee]

Ange openly criticising how large chunks of the game seemed to be totally out of control.

He's absolutely right. Oliver was about as useful as a dish sponge on the Titanic.

I think I must have watched a different game to everyone else

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

Sorry but we ain't got any reason to complain about the ref. He could easily have sent Udogie off very early on and he let stuff go from all players on both teams.
IMHO he did not lose control of the match...Udogie and Romero lost their heads.

The fact that VAR was frequently called into use underlines how little control he had of the match - and that's before the calls he bottled having to make

 

[Crackermanjack2]

I think I must have watched a different game to everyone else

I’m with you mate. I don’t think the referee was the reason we lost at all. Both sending offs we can have no complaints and that was ultimately the reason we lost

 

[SarrMan]

yeah, terrible decisions, Udogie should've been off first half.

Terrible decisions by our players.

 

[The Changing Man]

Love that this man is our manager love that attitude no blame accept the referees decision is final well done Ange

 

[Left on the Shelf]

I think I must have watched a different game to everyone else

You usually do!

 

[The RDBD]

...
Ange also makes some excellent points about VAR which every manager should be forced to listen to, chief of all Virgil Tracy down the road.

<BBC>
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou, speaking to BBC Sport: ...

On VAR decisions and time taken to make them: "I don't like it, it is the way the game is going. Some of it is self inflicted because if we come out every week complaining about decision that is what will happen, every decision gets forensically checked and we will be sitting around for a long time in every game trying to figure out what is going on.

"I don't like it but I am probably in the wilderness with that because I keep getting told that's where we want to go. I am too old school, I'll respect the referee's decision right or wrong. But it is the way the game is going.
</BBC>

Bitch-slapping the false messiah + grinch + lego captain black in one go.

 

[Crackermanjack2]

Ange’s interview was amazing. Love that he didn’t make out we were victims. Accept the decisions and move on. Why complain, it’s done now. All teams will have some games when they think they are hard done by. We are the ones who have to take it on the chin tonight

 

[Left on the Shelf]

<BBC>
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou, speaking to BBC Sport: ...

On VAR decisions and time taken to make them: "I don't like it, it is the way the game is going. Some of it is self inflicted because if we come out every week complaining about decision that is what will happen, every decision gets forensically checked and we will be sitting around for a long time in every game trying to figure out what is going on.

"I don't like it but I am probably in the wilderness with that because I keep getting told that's where we want to go. I am too old school, I'll respect the referee's decision right or wrong. But it is the way the game is going.
</BBC>

Bitch-slapping the false messiah + grinch + lego captain black in one go.

Love to know what he was booked for!

 

[Left on the Shelf]

Surely in Saturday it will be Dier and Davies (if fit) at CB with Royal at LB. Providing Maddison is fit then the rest pick themselves?

 

[The RDBD]

Love to know what he was booked for!

Told Oliver he was a poor mans' Clattenberg. < FACT >