The answer as to whether this is acceptable is to see how these tactics would fare against Liverpool. No doubt Gerrard wouldn't even try that against his old club, but hypothetically. Those Villa tweets are delusional. If this had been done against them I guarantee the same posters would be fuming. To compare Romero tripping someone up - which happens all the time - to what Cash did is beyond ludicrous. If you get tripped up while running there is almost zero chance of serious injury (of course there are exceptions, but the reason we remember them is because they are uncommon). If you take someone at close range at knee height, the impact and likely result is completely different. Frankly, we were lucky there were no other serious injuries. And the lack of condemnation from the pundits is shocking. It's been forgotten about already as if what went on was normal. Presumably someone would have to have their leg broken, or if this was done against one of their pet teams in order for it to be a story.
You only have to read our match thread on the Villa game to see that a number of our posters were aware and complaining about the tactics being used by Villa. One or even two of those hard tackles might be put down to mistiming but when you have the team doing it over and over it is quite clear that tactic is an instruction from the manager to go in hard.. We have a reputation for being 'soft' which you have to say has a certain amount of truth in it. so it's a tactic often used against us. The best thing we did was to beat the bastards not by just one hard fought goal but by 4 silky smooth beautys. I felt like Keegan because I just love it when that happens especially when it's a team employing these clogging tactics against us. Like this: And this:
We’re not that soft nowadays Conte won’t allow it we would have bottled these games under previous regimes imo plus slowly but surely the personnel in the starting XI is changing and with it a collective mentality. Those from previous regimes who had something about them are fitting in nicely with the new acquisitions as a winning mentality is being forged and the weak ones with a corrupt mentality are slowly but surely being ushered out and away from the first team set up. cant wait to see who Paratici has got lined up in the summer
From Mackay to Davids to Dembele and now Bentancur and Romero we have always been at our best when we have one or two players who can take the ball off the opposition and keep it and know what to do with it.
Yeah it feels like physically/ mentally we’re getting back to the spell under Poch of around 2015-2017 where we did develop some real steel and dropped the whole “Tottenham are soft” tags. Still think quality-wise we’re not as good as that team but we’re a lot closer to it after January than we were before it thanks to the two Juve arrivals, it’s crazy what a difference they’ve made and shows just what can happen when you spend wisely and on players who the manager can properly utilise in his system. One thing we do have over that team though is the manager, we all love Poch and rightly so but Conte’s a good two or three notches up from him and that’s said with no disrespect to Poch who himself is a good manager. Like you I’m really looking forward to seeing what Paratici can do in the summer. If we keep Conte and Kane whilst adding more Romero’s/ Bentancur’s/ Kulusevski’s we could be in for a good season. It’s nice to feel excited about Tottenham again, been a while.
