There have been worse one-off decisions this season, Cahill and Luiz last week for example, but this was the worst 90 minute display of utter incompetence I have seen for many years. Even Howard Webb would have been better. Foy should be sent to the lowest possible league to re-learn his job.
TBH mate i didn't think we were title contenders, City will walk away with it. Think we have a great shout of top 4. It's only a matter of time until the gooners go AWOL again.
Fair enough BMG, I said before the game that IF we win this we'll be title contenders, the disgusting events of today have ensured we're not. I'd take 4th now like a shot, but this could knock us right out of our stride. To be robbed like this must be traumatising, especially for Kaboul, not the first time he's been disgracefully sent off either.
I think we will beat Sunderland next week and go back to winning ways. It's important we pick ourselves up which i think we will. The team seem as one.
The ref was a disgrace today, but we only have ourselves to blame for losing the game. We had enough quality on display to put Stoke away, even without the ref's ineptitude. If we were sharper in front of goal (8 on target, 1 goal) we could have comfortably made up the deficit, which was more about our inability to clear our lines than Stoke's prowess. We are in danger of sounding like the old Sky 4 fans, getting nearly every decision and blaming the ref for every poor performance where he didn't give them just what they wanted. We have been reffed well this season for the most part; There will always be the odd bad day, but surely we are better than the usual suspects and just have to dust ourselves down and go again. We aren't victims, we are Tottenham Hotspur and there is a long way to go in his race. COYS
It is a tough job but if you consider how many times technology could've been claimed to used to be revised in any game? Everytime a decsion was made in the Stoke-Spurs today and I'm sure players would be the first to take advantage. Sometimes you get it bad and sometimes you get it good, unfortunately we had it bad. Perhaps Foy should not be involved in PL games for awhile because this is not the first time it's happened where he's been guessing and getting it wrong. It's one thing not to be fit enough not to keep up with play but his judgement was poor. Homer ref? Nah but his decision to give us a throw that was then overuled by the lino in the other half tipified his performance.
Your away fans did not do you any favours. Singing the referee is a ****er all through the game I bet he just wanted to do you a favour. Maybe you should stop blaming the biased ref and look closer to home at the dumbass fans singing he is a ****er!
Waddos...,Referees are paid to be fair, unbiased or impartial and should do so in dispite of rain, snow or singing from the crowd.
Waddo, your fans are a disgrace to the game, whistling and jeering when we had the ball. I know you're not used to seeing football played properly, but honestly you condemned yourselves as Neanderthals with your bad sportmanship today. I sooooooooo pray that you get relegated in the near future and your curse of 'anti-football' is lifted from the top flight of English football.
Yeah every top side say that when we beat them. Stoke gave you a lesson in football today and that it's not all about the fancy flicks and sleek passing. Blood, guts and determination and three points that we will take very nicely thanks. We have had diabolical decisions go against us as well you know. In fact the game at home against QPR was probably the worst display of refereeing I have ever witnessed but that's football. Keep praying anyway but i think you will find we are here to stay for a bit yet
Point is all teams are "robbed" at least once a season. We have a squad more than capable of beating Stoke, even with a two goal start. Our rate of converting goal attempts, on the whole, is not good enough. Sorenson was good today, but we should have put our chances away more efficiently. Our fantastic run has hidden the fact that, more often than not, we need at least 10 chances to score 2 goals. Today that came home to roost with vengeance. As for anti-football, well I'm not sure about that. They play to their strengths, keep it simple and tackle back well. On another day Shawcross would have been off and we would have won 3-2. The booing of Modric was priceless. If they're booing you, you know you're doing SOMETHING right!
You'll never give us a lesson in football, because you don't know how to play the game. You can give us lessons in thuggery, cheating and cynicism, but I'm soooooooo glad I support one of the great footballing teams of this country, not a bunch of two bob losers like your horrible outfit. Fortunately during most of the 50+ years I've been watching proper football, you've been no-marks and not sullied our stadium too much. I just pray before I die you go back to where you belong. Also may the curse of trophylessness on you live long and and indelibly
Few teams are 'robbed as systematically' as we were today. Point is we scored two 'valid' goals, and they scored one, as their first was from a handball. Yes we need to be more clinical in our finishing, but we also need a fair go, not blatant incompetence. I'm being kind here, as I refuse to believe, or certainly don't want to that there were more sinister motives behind the officials' performance today. Just what was the 4th official up to today though? Is that allowed, to influence on the pitch decisions when he pointed out Kab's 'dissent'. I'd like to know the rules on that one. How comes he can point that out, but not the penalties, etc?
I'm afraid The Telegraph disagree to put their words in a nutshell it's not that Stoke played to their strengths it was the fact they played to Tottenham's weakness - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-their-victory-against-Tottenham-Hotspur.html
The fourth official is there to draw the refs attention to off the ball incidents as well as his other "duties." In play decisions are the territory of the other three officials. We have had a fair go for the most part I believe, if anything we have been getting decisions this year that we wouldn't have in the past. I am not disagreeing that the ref had a 'mare of mammoth proportions, but I do believe we could have turned our agricultural opponents over with more belief and application.
It's an opinion piece you plum. See what the match report says. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-City-2-Tottenham-Hotspur-1-match-report.html
