Not snobbery at all. I'm just making the point that I have the background to support the argument I make. You'll be surprised how many fans, pundits and commentators have no clue about the laws of the game. The tackle on Capoue not receiving a similar sanction is a case in point. Expertise in one field does not support opinions in another. Ergo I will listen to the likes of Shearer when discussing tactics but will give his opinions little credit when discussing refereeing decisions.
Just seen MOTD from Boxing Day. Anthony Taylor reffed the Man City-Sunderland game. He didn't give one clear pen to Sterling and gave one to Man City where the initial challenge was outside the box. Maybe we should have seen it coming...
....and this is from the fan of a club who: * are the arch-exponents of the "fizzle-out" of their league season! * have not won the major competition that they have entered in the last 55 years * think they are a "big" club because they won the the double in 1961 (albeit with a great team - who must be turning in their graves at what has happened since) * think that a few FA Cup wins and a couple of 3rd rate Euro competition wins is adequate recompense for the hundreds of millions that they have spent on players over the years - and they seem to have stopped winning even these competitions in recent years * assume that because they can go out and spend freely in each close season they are buying for success, only to find that by November they are out of the running for the league yet again * appoint a manager who travelled to WHL by tube! * have been in the shadow of their local rivals for at least 25 years (and arguably since the 60s) In case you come back with well what have Watford ever won, well in truth not much, but our fans do not have the inflated sense of expectation that yours do, and far from considering the rest of the season as fizzling out, will thoroughly enjoy the rest of this campaign, and look forward to giving the top clubs and yours a good bloody nose shortly, because we know that it will happen. We have more chance of finishing in the top 6 over the next few seasons than you have winning the EPL.
Just seen MOTD. Ake was high but got the ball first. Have seen so much worse for a straight red. As for the winner, there's one word - OFFSIDE!
I think it speaks volumes that Mauricio Pochettino does not say that the tackle deserved a straight red. He probably had a better view than the ref.
Seriously...one geezer on the internet pisses you off so ALL spurs fans are arseholes...really? The rest of us on here have been respectful and honest ... slag a wum off mate but don't make it a spurs thing cos it ain't. Also the 3rd rate european trophy bollocks should be beneath any football fan who ain't a plastic...all trophies won are great and only plastics talk about mickey mouse cups and 3rd rate trophies imo. I'm hoping to be able to afford tickets to the return match with my daughters and it'll be a great match cos you are doing so well playing great football...the vast majority of our fans think this (as do other fans) ... Watford have gone under the radar cos of Leicester flying high but true football fans have sat up and taken notice of watford. Best of luck apart from th return matche
Pochettino tries not to lay into opposition players so generally says little...he didn't really lay into James Mclean (wba) for his disgusting attack disguised as a tackle (which deserved 3 reds tbh) which put dembele out for 2 weeks.
I'm so plastic that I have seen Watford play at Darlington, Barrow, Torquay, Aldershot, Cheltenham, Grimsby, Wrexham, Southport, Stockport & Lowestoft Town as well as Anfield, Old Trafford, Highbury, White Hart Lane, Stamford Bridge, Villa Park, Boleyn Ground amongst many others. I do not recall calling Spurs fans arseholes. I call fans as I meet them and I have to say that over the years most Spurs fans, that I have met, have been arrogant, supercilious, condescending, patronising and totally deluded over the status of their club. Who also annoy me intensely are those who live in and around Watford, Hemel, St Albans, Rickmansworth etc. who have no time for their local club, but insist on glory-hunting with a so-called "big" club and only visit Vicarage Road when "their" club plays there - and then usually sit in amongst the home fans - these are the plastic fans that you seem to know so much about. Those "home fans", whose seats they occupy and presumably sell or give their tickets away, I have nothing but contempt for.
Never called you plastic mate...said mocking any trophy should be beneath real fans and left to the plastics...as for your view of most spurs you have met can't comment but its got sod all to do with what I posted
OK your apology accepted. Incidentally I do remember Colin Lee, until last season the only Watford manager appointed and sacked within the same calendar year. I was at St James Park for his last game in the old Div. 2 - also of interest to you as it was Ossie Ardiles' last game for the Maggies as he was sacked also after that game. It was a 1-0 win for Newcastle on the coldest day of football I can recall. Incidentally, talking of plastic fans, there were 13,000 or so at St James Park that day, so you could argue that the Toon Army is composed of around 40,000 plastics.....
Lighten up, my Spurs supporting grandsons had a wonderful day yesterday watching from my normal seats. They both support Watford as their second team.
I started watching spurs results when I was 8...family in North London. ..we were nearly relegated and then relegated when I was 9 or 10...I was always listening on the radio to updates and remember when he scored 4 on his debut. Always makes me smile when people ask if I wish my family had lived in Islington instead of Harringey so I would have been a gooner...nothing makes me wish I supported any other team and I love my girls being spurs. For what it's worth I think Watford are the stand out team bar Leicester this season and we got lucky to walk away with 3 points. Have a good new year apart from when you play us!
Finally seen the highlights and for me it's not a red. The ball was there to be gone for and he got it (that Shearer can say he didn't get the ball says it all really). However it was a bit (yes a bit) reckless. So only a yellow for me. Goal was offside. Not even close. Highlights didn't show the early yellow for Spuds. Would like to see if it was a yellow or, in the context of what was to follow, a red. All in all...still seething.
I think anyone who supports Spurs shows real commitment. Across many years they have had Arsenal rammed down their throats - yet still they stick to their club. It is not like Man U where fans come from far and wide - most Spurs fans are London based. Spurs have the 5th highest points total in the Premiership history behind Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea - but due to the money in the Champions League and failure to attract billionaire investors - are in a league behind the rich clubs that Man City are in despite being a 3rd Division club not so long ago. They are one of only 7 clubs to never be relegated from the Prem - soon to be 6 when Villa fall. I thought it was good to be polite to guests visiting - makes me wonder how under the abuse one or two have given out the Spurs fans who have visited here have been so restrained. We are Watford - we are a family club - let's not insult people who have come here with honest and not WUM comments.
Well said Leo, I sympathise with Vic's comments, but those that have visited here have been honest in their views and complimentary to Watfords play!
Interesting as I recall we kept Prodl back on the halfway line and as such if it was a goal kick I would not have raised point in first place. Perhaps you viewed it through the ref's eyes and saw something the rest of us didn't. Good luck for rest of season anyhow.
http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2015/12/28/bbc-match-of-the-day-week-19-full-show/ Go to 35.11. Saved by Lloris, hits Prodl, goes behind.
