Tottenham Hotspur 2011-2012 Official Thread

[Corax]

I've started incubating a conspiranoid theory that Arry's done a deal with the FA to get himself sacked so they don't have to pay compensation.

 

[marshall]

he hasn't got the smarts to be a top international mngr, always starts great, then fades, then moves.

 

[Big Gunz]

Those Geordie boys are gonna finish 4th.

 

[London_Calling]

5 games remaining; 3 away (QPR, Bolton, Villa), 2 at home (Blackburn, Fulham).

Probably do us a favour to get knocked out the Cup next week - Chelsea have that and Barca to think about.

Newcastle still have Chelsea, Man City and Everton.

So the good news is... 'on paper' we have to be favs for CL still....

 

[xes]

by the by. Football is dead to me.

It's all a fix, so that we're not inthe champions league next year with a new manager from some lower league team who'll get us rellegated within 3 seconds of being in charge.

 

[chieftain]

Norwich, I ask you... tsk tsk!

 

[London_Calling]

'arry set the team up wrong again, I fear....

 

[chieftain]

Those Geordie boys are gonna finish 4th.

They're the only team with more chance of shooting themselves in the foot than we have!

 

[Deareg]

They're the only team with more chance of shooting themselves in the foot than we have!

I give you Manchester Cityyyyyyy.

 

[xes]

spurs'll be lucky if they finish 6th at this rate.

 

[London_Calling]

Might cheer us up a little; I think this is from the end of January, the site was pretty well cleared at that point:

 

[ska invita]

Somebody needs to get Arsenal catering to serve up some of that end of season lasagne

 

[chieftain]

So big game for us at an unusual time on Sunday (6pm ITV1)

Thoughts, predictions, price of fish anyone?

 

[London_Calling]

I'm thinking nice big - wiiiiiiiide - pitch.

 

[deadringer]

Somebody needs to get Arsenal catering to serve up some of that end of season lasagne

Why Arsenal?

 

[deadringer]

So big game for us at an unusual time on Sunday (6pm ITV1)

Thoughts, predictions, price of fish anyone?

The time still baffles, how the wishes of a TV station can take precedent over the fears of the Met (2 sets of rival London fans, travelling the same direction and home again after a full days drinking...) i'll never know.

 

[ska invita]

Why Arsenal?

so they get sick and lose a few games

 

[Badgers]

Liverpool and Everton fans wanting Chelsea to win so they have a better chance of winning the cup. Who what have thought it a season or a few back?

 

[deadringer]

so they get sick and lose a few games

Think you'll find that was West Ham

 

[London_Calling]

Looking logically at the latest goal-that-wasn't:

1.The Ref either saw the ball cross the line or he didn't
2. If he did, he's bent
3. If he didn't, he took a blind guess

So the question has to be why would a ref who didn't see the ball cross the line award a goal when in, literally, every other sport the presumption is with the defence?

 

[deadringer]

I always thought that they have to be 100% sure to give it, so he must have been sure it crossed the line. Chelsea still won by plenty though, so it's all immaterial

 

[London_Calling]

It is material; the score was 0-1, John Terry was lying in Tottehman's goal mouth, Bale and Lennon were on the pitch and the ball was still in play.

 

[deadringer]

Do you believe the result would have been different had that not been given?

 

[London_Calling]

Of course. Chasing a game at 0-2 is entirely different from sticking to your game plan at 0-1.

 

[The39thStep]

These things happen. Could have been worse Chelsea could have Ashley Young in their team.

 

[London_Calling]

I'm sure others won't agree with this but .... after almost a full season I'm approaching the point where I might actually prefer Crouch's consistency to what Adebeyor offers. Adebeyor is a fine player but ....

 

[Corax]

Do you believe the result would have been different had that not been given?

Impossible to tell, but it would have been nice to find out.

 

[chieftain]

battered & bruised but not torn!!

 

[Grinnan Bearit]

Of course. Chasing a game at 0-2 is entirely different from sticking to your game plan at 0-1.

It was 2-1 very, very shortly afterwards, though, which is basically a reversion to your "0-1 game plan". If anything, Spurs were better off at that point, since they also had momentum and a sense of righteous injustice. Still didn't help them in the slightest.

 

[London_Calling]

You kind of missed out the potential for 1-1. Even, had the ref allowed play to continue as he should, 1-1 while Terry was still lying on the floor in the Tottenham goalmouth. Who knows.