Good job Dembele doesn't live in Iran, the punishment there is having your own eyes gouged out. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-GOUGED-damaging-sight-man-street-brawl.html
I don't blame Pixie for having a pop, he has every right. What Dembele did was stupid. I am not condoning what he did, but I will say - as I have already - that he has laid down a marker for piss-taker players, like Costa, that our lads will not be pushed around any more. Those days are over. There's a steel to our play, the kind of temperament that wins titles. Poch and the boys have to build on this.
"Laid down a marker"..So having a player in your team that scratches like a girl means the other teams in the EPL won't push you around anymore?
Exactly what I was gonna say. That behaviour stemmed from the fact that they had lost the title and they knew it. Born out of frustration. HIAG is usually witty, but this whole spin he is trying to put on this, about how Spurs were some innocent virginal team who were getting picked on, bullied and beaten up every week, and this was them finally standing up to the man.....I have no ****ing idea where he got this from
'The punishment is way too high' Stoke and former Republic of Ireland keeper Shay Given told BBC Radio 5 live that he thought the punishment was "way too high". "Looking at the incident, did he stick his finger in his eye and actually gouge his eye?" he said. "I've seen worse tackles on the field which don't get a suspension or a maximum of three matches. If someone is going to go in two-footed, lunging, and their opponent are out for six to nine months with a broken leg and they don't get a ban - I don't understand that. "Dembele's fingers weren't right in his eye. He scraped a bit of his face. I think it is harsh. I know the FA are trying to send a message that this isn't acceptable, but I've seen worse things on a football pitch." Former West Brom striker Jason Roberts agreed, saying: "Things happen on the pitch that can genuinely hurt somebody - like Fellaini's elbow on Huth. That in my opinion was much more dangerous and more of an issue than what Dembele did." Alternatively, here's what a couple of professionals have to say. Not a bunch of amateur witch hunters!...
It's a great moral victory for Spurs. In future opposition players will know what will happen if they **** with Spurs. They'll get a Spurs player banned for retaliation.
