Despite Spurs' best start to a season in the same time frame that we've had our worst, we find ourselves 2 pts behind them. NLD in February is going to be a massive game
By February, VDV can score from 5 hand balls and Moderate can con the ref for 5 penalties. It still won't be enough to get them above us in the league come the end of the season.
Shock horror!!!! The spuds are crying that the match was fixed by the referee . How many times do we hear that old chestnut from the shadow dwellers every season? Virtually every time they lose, that's when. Happy days
You will find most real football fans can see the ref was awful today. I know you are blinded by hatred so I'm not surprised
Spurs deserved the win but that’s football, we have had so many decisions against us in the past but at the end of the day you also didn’t take all of your chances so you cant solely blame the ref. I think the penalty that you got in the first place was a dodgy decision considering that Modric jumped to ground so you also got some decisions your way.
I think the ref made some mistakes, including awarding a penalty to spurs. The defender pulled out of the challenge and made no contact with Modric. Watch the video again http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/emmanuel-adebayor-v-stoke/ It's fast, but there is no contact. Modric realises this and then decides to go down, hence the delay, hence why it looks like he's dived - because he has. The Huth elbow off the line was hard to call because again it happened so quickly. Technically the ref can only give a pen if he is absolutely sure it was one, so if he didn't see it, he can't give it. So technically he got that right.
I didn't think Crouch deliberately handballed, arms were at the sides best he could. And I don't really understand the Spurs penalty ... I couldn't see any contact between the defender and Modric, and if there's no contact, there's no penalty. But then, Adebayor was onside and had that goal disallowed, so it evened out. Probably a fair result at the end of the day.
In the end we lost because we defended poorly in first half. Every team will suffer poor refs. Foy seems to be making a name for himself with the London clubs you have been warned
If you watch it again, whilst it looks like a kick to the shin, he didn't make contact, he pulled out in time. It's very fast, but there's no contact. Modric he realises that there's no actual contact, so that's why there's a delay in him going to ground.
Maybe you should be posting that on the Spuds board? I didn't think there was contact, so the above is not relevant to that argument.
i agree the ref was a pleb today but , no more than when RVP was sent off for kicking the ball half a second after the whistle was blown , and all you spuds thought that was hilarious so ........................... Thats footie, sometimes its a cruel mistress.
I'll have a look at those too, they should be on MOTD. From the angle PNP has shown, it looks like a dive with no contact.
