I just don't see the harm. Only a knuckle dragging moron would get incited by such actions. Neville's is more aggressive, but still ok for me. Walcott was just joking around
only cowardly ****ers would throw coins cos a player was taking the piss. it weren't ok for gooners to throw several objects at VDV when he scored the penalty in the 3-2 win at the emerates and it ain't ok for any spurs fans to throw coins at walcott. if they were so provoked by him showing it was 2 nil then they should **** off and watch bowls instead. it's also worth noting that the photo of the grounds man holding coins showed around a dozen coins... thats around 2.5 people throwing a coin per thousand people ... or 0.25% so it needs to be kept in proportion
it's all bloody ridiculous. He was having some friendly rivalry with opposition fans. But there's idiots at every club who do stupid things and end up getting themselves banned. unfortunately it's just part of football. It attracts scumbags. for those who haven't seen, Walcott is actually out now for 6 months and will miss the world cup due to a knee injury.
I was at the game and the atmosphere at that point was getting very volatile. There had been a lot of early banter, but the mood had changed and I thought the Police and stewards were doing an excellent job. Unfortunately, Walcott's behaviour, jokey or otherwise, was extremely unwise given the mood at the time. That he didn't start off a riot is more credit to the stewards and Police. Some Spurs fans were going berserk and I share their fury. However, there can be no excuse whatsoever for coin throwing and those that did so have brought justified shame on our club.
You've got to be some Kungfu/Ninja master to tear a mans' cruciate ligaments from several yards away by throwing a one pound coin.
Classy. Pleased to see there are some sensible and balanced views from other Tottenham fans though....
it's a football match...and i don't get the aggression...those throwing coins have justified the goons decision to give us 5000 tickets instead of 9000...if a player taking the piss wound them up that much then they have no right to go to football imo
Classy...Walnut should have shown a bit more class being a millionaire footballer. Very unprofessional behaviour.
Walcott being out for six months is terrible news for England. They might have to pick someone based on merit, and we know how much they hate doing that.
I have to take that back, he was not faking it. I stand corrected. Walker was still correct playing to the whistle though, it wasn't a life threatening injury.
I've been busy, so this is well after everyone has shared their views on the game... The good: Credit to Arsenal, who deserved to win for looking livelier and, crucially, taking their chances. In a game where we looked flat and tired, and Arsenal played well, we would have had either a win or a draw against the first place team in the PL at their place if we'd taken our chances as well as they did. I'll dissent on tactics and set up for that reason. We set up conventionally in the PL game at the Emirates, and didn't have a single clear cut chance. Here we had two great ones and a couple of other decent ones. We could have drawn, with a little luck, with a conventional set up the first game. This one, with a little luck, we could have won. People overanalyze. We set up to counterattack both Man U and Arsenal. While we looked lively the first game, and languid the second, what matters in many if not most games is taking your chances. We did and Man U didn't the first game. Arsenal did and we didn't the second. Bentaleb continues to look like a PL, though not a top four, starter. (I know: hard to think of Spurs who do look like top four starters ATM.) Dembele was good. Dawson was decent. While failing to take the first chance of the game may well have cost us 1 or 3 points, in the last two games Eiriksen has started to make me think he's as good or better than Holtby in a creative role. I was impressed that he didn't seem to run out of either ideas or desire, even if some of the former weren't so great. The University of Pittsburgh college station that played excellent music I'd mostly never heard before once I went with it and ditched the announcer. The fact that this loss doesn't seem nearly as big as the win over Man U--not to mention I would have taken the win and the loss we got. The fact that Arsenal has more games to play with their thin squad, and we don't with our suddenly thin one. The hope that this result may turn out to help us and hurt them. The bad: Looking so flat and lacking in energy, when Arsenal, with the same fixture congestion, looked lively. Taking so long to introduce Chadli, who helped when he came on. Not taking two excellent chances. Adebayor slipped, which can't be helped. Eiriksen needed to do better, but it wasn't that easy a chance. Chesney closed him down just as he broke free. It looked like he needed one more touch to get it to his right, but he couldn't be certain that touch wouldn't be enough for a defender to get a foot in. Walker failing to pick up Cazorla, of all people, when he came into the box. The ugly: The entire game was ruined by my announcer yelling "Goal," wrongly, on the Eiriksen attempt. Some people had the job of splitting an atom and succeeded. He had the job of saying "Goal," when the round thing goes in the onion bag, and he failed. Coin throwing. Rose's blunder, followed shortly by a Chiriches comedy of errors. I would have said Vlad had a good game otherwise.
I'd agree with the observation, but I don't know about the diagnosis. It can be hard to know why a team comes out flat, as we did, but it happens far more often than anyone wants, so it must be hard to avoid.
He also got up and carried on playing for a couple of minutes after that, and was running fine. Whether that compounded the damage, or whether the second injury did all of the damage, I guess we will never know. I do retract my earlier comment about Walcott deserving to go off injured for earlier unsporting behaviour. I've had the injury and wouldn't wish it on anyone, except perhaps, Charlie Adam. For all the injuries he has recklessly and maliciously inflicted on other players, it wouldn't be undeserved.
what's this? 28 goals and 26 assist from the beginning of last season, what English winger has better stats? Lennon? .....Townsend? .....
Bit late on commenting about the match but what a boring game it was for a NLD. Arguably one of the worst ones I can think of in recent years, made even worse by the fact we lost. The two mistakes were poor, especially Rose's. No one impressed though, poor game from all Spurs players involved.
15 to 13 shots, 5 to 3 on target, 6 to 8 corners, 54 to 46 possession... Yeah that seems real dominant. Better? Yes. Dominant? Have a laugh.
It's funny because he's probably one of the same Arsenal fans that thought they were playing the best football in the country when they were passing it around for 90 minutes and creating nothing. Now it's all about being an effective counterattacking side
