Spurs reactions and player ratings

[Mac76]

It was the blanket statement of "studs up on the back of someone's leg" comment that I said was stupid. Because it is stupid.

It wasn't a red for me. But it wasn't a ridiculous decision either. I've no issue with anyone thinking it was a red, tbh. The game is for poofs now, so it is what it is.

Don't try to wriggle out of it, everything you said was tosh, relating the judgement to knowledge of playing football when ex-players said it was 100%

Anyway it was a spuds sending off so why you're questionning it i don't know, unless you're sitting there in your AIA shirt

[HCZ_Reborn]

Personally I’d sooner use a pumice stone on my testes than defend that dick head but I have to say I think it’s a soft red and I think if we are all being honest we can admit that if Xhaka was sent off for that we’d be annoyed.

By the letter of the law it’s a sending off but it’s a harsh one, I think a yellow would have sufficed. Does it bother me? No fuck them…first of all it’s a dirty challenge and Emerson is a cunt for making it and given what they and other sides have gotten away with against us I think this feels like things balancing themselves out.

[Mac76]

Personally I’d sooner use a pumice stone on my testes than defend that dick head but I have to say I think it’s a soft red and I think if we are all being honest we can admit that if Xhaka was sent off for that we’d be annoyed.

By the letter of the law it’s a sending off but it’s a harsh one, I think a yellow would have sufficed. Does it bother me? No fuck them…first of all it’s a dirty challenge and Emerson is a cunt for making it and given what they and other sides have gotten away with against us I think this feels like things balancing themselves out.

don't agree with any of that, including the bit about Xhaka, he always gets exactly what he deserves and anyway I'm always happy to see him get sent off as it means we can play someone else for a few games

[HCZ_Reborn]

don't agree with any of that, including the bit about Xhaka, he always gets exactly what he deserves and anyway I'm always happy to see him get sent off as it means we can play someone else for a few games

Nah I’m one of Xhaka’s biggest critics on here but a lot of his red cards have been incredibly harsh and definitely wouldn’t have been given against our opponents.

[Mac76]

Nah I’m one of Xhaka’s biggest critics on here but a lot of his red cards have been incredibly harsh and definitely wouldn’t have been given against our opponents.

that's just an urban myth, i've not seen a thing wrong with any of his reds and i would genuinely say if i had, it doesn't help anyone to make up conspiracy theories

refs are definitely harsher on us than other teams and some of it is plain wrong, but with Xhaka it's always fully justified

[mandela8]

Don't try to wriggle out of it, everything you said was tosh, relating the judgement to knowledge of playing football when ex-players said it was 100%

Anyway it was a spuds sending off so why you're questionning it i don't know, unless you're sitting there in your AIA shirt

Wriggling out of fuck all.

You don't know what you're talking about because you've never kicked a baw, so have no idea why "studs up down the back of leg..." is a fuckin idiotic statement.

[Mac76]

Wriggling out of fuck all.

You don't know what you're talking about because you've never kicked a baw, so have no idea why "studs up down the back of leg..." is a fuckin idiotic statement.

why don't you read where i said:

"Yes i have but more to the point i've watched tons of PL football and First Division before it, plus seen games in all three lower divisions, plus non-league, and that's a sending off every time, it's worse than what Auba got sent off for a couple of seasons ago and if you watched MoTD there were two, errr, ex-players, Wright and Shearer, who were 100% it was a red

So it's not my comment that's stupid mate"

"yes i have " is a clue to my having played football so why don't you engage your pea-sized brain and stop talking trash mate

[HCZ_Reborn]

You pair of fruity fun boys need to get a hotel

[Mac76]

You pair of fruity fun boys need to get a hotel

i thought you and him were already shacked up together

[Chippy]

I think dickhead makes some reasonable points, whether Partey is our best player or not he’s certainly the player we miss the most when he doesn’t play, not just for the defensive work but he just keeps everything ticking over and going by the law of averages after all the long range efforts he’s sent into the stands he was due one to set the net bulging.

Xhaka well he certainly adds more to our attacking dimension playing in a more advanced role but once again he’s a defensive liability, gets too easily dispossessed because he dwells too long on the ball.

From a defensive point of view White did very well but he does limit our opportunities going forward on the right. Zinchenko seems to be the opposite, doesn’t know what a full back is but Martinelli is always more dangerous when he plays

Saliba for me has been the best defender in the premier league so far, if there’s someone who has been better I’d like a name

Odegaard predictably disappears when we don’t play shit opposition. Saka needs to realise not everything is coming to come to him on his left foot

Jesus is Jesus, predictably a handful but sometimes wasteful. But five goals from 8 games is a decent return.

Pretty much agree with this.
Especially the Odegaard comment.
The only weak link at the moment is Gabriel. He panics terribly far too often.