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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton & Hove Albion

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  1. Fox Mulder

    Fox Mulder Well-Known Member

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    Well done and thankyou for dealing with Brighton... they've been sniffing around a little longer than was comfortable.
     
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  2. Spurlock

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    They just need to become someone’s sportwashing project and they’d piss all over your goldfish bowl club
     
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  3. humanbeingincroydon

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    Highlight of the weekend: Runners demanding a police investigation into the VAR!
     
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  4. humanbeingincroydon

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    A summary of r/soccer right now...

     
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  5. humanbeingincroydon

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    That was our fifth home win in a row

    ...or to put it another way, a damning indictment of our away form since February
     
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  6. Spurlock

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    I dunno

    we should be going all out for Toney

    he’s bagged 18 PL goals

    5 less than Kane

    some astute signings would go a long way in replacing them goals imo

    however…….we’ve got Levy running the show or maybe his newly acquired puppet

    either way

    there are solutions if we know what we are doing
     
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  7. humanbeingincroydon

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    If Kane were to leave, the issue is we'd likely sign two players to (on paper...) score the same number of goals between them

    In itself this isn't an issue, for example when Liverpool sold Fernando Torres they signed Luis Suarez & Andy Carroll, with Suarez ultimately picking up the scoring slack on his own which made up for Carroll hitting the back of the net far less than he hit his girlfriend

    In our case, though, with Richarlison already in place you have to wonder if the plan would be to sign a striker and an AM in the hope/expectation that Richy & NEW STRIKER handle the goalscoring side of things while NEW AM fills in the assist side of things, in the hope that Sonny and Deki get back in form to respectively chip in with their share of either
     
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  8. remembercolinlee

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    Surely Toney is gonna be banned at some point for a pretty long time?
     
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  9. ToonArmy1892

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    Evening lads, not sure how you got away with that penalty decision.
     
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  10. Spurlock

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    yeah and it’d start the day we sign him

    we all know it
     
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  11. Spurlock

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    please log in to view this image
     
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  12. paultheplug

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    Ref thought Brighton may be a threat to team in red
     
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  13. Fox Mulder

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    They tried to shaft the toon Today too , but unfortunately they failed.
     
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  14. humanbeingincroydon

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    On the subject of small man syndrome...
     
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  15. ToonArmy1892

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    Our game in a couple of weeks is huge.
     
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  16. vimhawk

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    Not that it's probably worth analysis, but I was wondering if part of this hinges on one word. I've heard it reported in two versions. One reported Stellini commented that he "built on Potter's [Brighton]" the other reported Stellini commented that he "just built on Potter's [Brighton]". One word gives the comment completely different meaning, and since the UK media can't be bothered to clear up what one was said (or if "just" was said at the time, to clarify that was meant), then it's not surprising there is a misunderstanding going on (if that is what is happening).
     
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  17. PleaseNotPoll

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    Refereeing body PGMOL has admitted Brighton should have had a penalty for Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tackle on Kaoru Mitoma in Saturday's game at Tottenham:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65224836

    Brighton have had several of these apologies, apparently.
    Where's ours?
     
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  18. PleaseNotPoll

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    Another awful, negative performance, where we played to our weaknesses.
    Somehow we managed to get a win, yet everyone's claiming it's down to the officials.
    I think that's another result of us playing a dull, defensive game.
    People believe that we deserved to lose that match and you can see why.

    As for the decisions, Brighton can go **** themselves, frankly.
    Diving all over the place and benefiting from poor calls themselves repeatedly?
    No, let's just focus on a bunch of VAR calls that were generally correct.
    Dunk shouldn't have still been on the pitch, but that's fine.

    Seagulls getting **** on is a nice reversal.
     
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  19. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    get it right, VAR dealt with Brighton, absolutely disgusting officiatin
    yep, that seems to be how Tottenham are near the top.
     
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