Tottenham (A) - Sat 30th Sep 2023 (5:30pm)

[A_S]

2 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

If they're keeping VAR then mic them up. Have three appeals each, a maximum of a minute for a check, and replays for red cards played at full speed three times. If you can't make a decision in that time it isn't a clear and obvious error.

And not have the fucking freeze frame at point of contact as the first thing the ref sees on the monitor. Couldn't believe that. 

[TheDrowningMan]

Did Postecoglu concede that the officiating was preposterous and that Spurs got a gift, or was he full scab in his post match interview?

[The Midnight Rambler]

Just now, Bobby Hundreds said:

It's unacceptable that offside gets brushed off, we've lost titles by one point, I'm fucking sick of it. Its not a sport anymore.

Made the same point to my dad. It’s not sport anymore. It’s bad enough that absolutely fuck all is happening with the 115 charges.

 

I went and sat outside the house after the ‘offside’ could see myself turning into Michael Douglas in falling down. 

[Burgess]

6 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

 

Called it.

 

*pats self on back*

 

A proper brain fart, but the onside was so obvious, and the protocol for not flagging marginal offsides so established, that the lino deserves as much flak.

They are surely not going with this how can they explain not noticing where the match was being restarted from ?

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Just now, Burgess said:

They are surely not going with this how can they explain not noticing where the match was being restarted from ?

Or that nobody was celebrating the goal? 

[RedHeadedRed]

They didn't even show the penalty incident on match of the day.

[rubble-rouser]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

It's unacceptable that offside gets brushed off, we've lost titles by one point, I'm fucking sick of it. It’s not a sport anymore.

This is the point. Wee will be duckers by a decision that was wrong. There is a dreadful system in place to correct wrong decisions 

 

the decision was demonstrably wrong. Yet then system didn’t correct it. 
 

 

The point of a system is to eradicate individual errors.

 

There is no way that a human operator of said system that understands football could have said that the Goal didn’t need the utmost scrutiny.

 

so there is a human element and they have chosen to do us over on the day City dropped  points.

[Josef Svejk]

1 minute ago, Burgess said:

They are surely not going with this how can they explain not noticing where the match was being restarted from ?

 

VAR didn't intervene was the official word. Now it's reported that it did (erroneously, but in good faith).

 

Which one is it?

 

I'm inclined to go with third option: VAR intervened (erroneously, but in bad faith).

[George Costanza]

That Dale Johson is a grade A ref apologist cunt

[s(k)aturation]

28 minutes ago, Moo said:

 

It wouldn't have happened to them as he was dealing with referees that were leaning towards Man Utd anyway. Klopp would be like an angry man shouting at a cloud. 

I honestly don't think we can do anything about this short term except rebuff their so called explanations and apologies, just play it with a straight bat "we don't accept the explanation/apology". It would take support from influential people within football to achieve anything right now, which won't happen.  I think we can only take a longer term view, get an analyst in to review every single match in the PL every week and make a dossier and if it's damning in their anti-LFC agenda then present it to the PGMOL/FA and ask them what they're going to do about it.

 

What we can do is keep playing well, take advantage of the result at Wolves today, and keep winning as many as possible, and stick it up everyone with results.

Today was the worst of bad calls and bad luck, and we nearly got a point.

Klopp is a backs-to-the-wall expert and this could be the making of this season.

He and the team will deal with "injustice" a lot better than we mewling fans.

 

And save an especial "up yours" for Spurs when they visit Anfield - not their fault about the refereeing but fuck them all the same, celebrating as if they were the team with 9 men.

 

Hate Spurs me, @tokyojoe !

 

 

 

[A Red]

7 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

Did Postecoglu concede that the officiating was preposterous and that Spurs got a gift, or was he full scab in his post match interview?

Its got fuck all to do with him

[George Costanza]

I'm still so fucking fuming about today I've had to bite my tongue and not post my real thoughts.  Disgusted & proud but I'm very very very nearly completely and utterly done with football.  Its corrupt to the fucking core

[rubble-rouser]

3 minutes ago, George Costanza said:

I'm still so fucking fuming about today I've had to bite my tongue and not post my real thoughts.  Disgusted & proud but I'm very very very nearly completely and utterly done with football.  Its corrupt to the fucking core

So this 

[gkmacca]

11 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

Did Postecoglu concede that the officiating was preposterous and that Spurs got a gift, or was he full scab in his post match interview?

I only saw a tiny bit of Sky's interview with him - he was beaming away like he was some kind of tactical genius as they fawned over him. I would've felt I'd been hugely lucky and sloped off after a game like that but he seemed full of it. 

[BeefStroganoff]

Are they going to release the mic conversation? No you say?

[chrisbonnie]

Just now, BeefStroganoff said:

Are they going to release the mic conversation? No you say?

Unlikely. 

 

But regarding var. Only the Premiership could fuck up, someone looking at a replay and still making the wrong decision..... Consistently........ 

[Josef Svejk]

Happened to read this today by coincidence:

 

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/i-didnt-see-barcelona-pay-a-referee-pep-guardiola-gives-his-take-on-negreira-scandal

 

Nobody believes in judicial process like Pep Guardiola... 

[Dicko]

That is not a legitimate result.

[George Costanza]

4 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

Happened to read this today by coincidence:

 

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/i-didnt-see-barcelona-pay-a-referee-pep-guardiola-gives-his-take-on-negreira-scandal

 

Nobody believes in judicial process like Pep Guardiola... 

 

He probably didn't see those perfromance enhancing drugs he took as a player either

[Josef Svejk]

Just now, George Costanza said:

 

He probably didn't see those perfromance enhancing drugs he took as a player either

 

Not to mention anything related to the 100+ charges his current club is facing (until the money runs out)... 

[an tha]

There simply has to be consequences for the level of error made today.

 

We suffer as a football club - there has to be consequences for the officials - just has to be.

 

 

[Mook]

17 minutes ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Are they going to release the mic conversation? No you say?

 

They'll need to remove all the Abu Dhabi accents first, the fucking twats.

[Baltar]

I've said it for a while, VAR is a tool for the corrupt. Some anonymous arsehole sitting somewhere is inexplicably making decisions that make no sense and does not have to explain or justify the decision. It's a black box the officials are using to influence results. It's such a farce. 

[The Midnight Rambler]

Our boy Darren was part of a refereeing team, with Michael Oliver in the Middle East on Thursday. Refereeing an exhibition game. Nice work if you can get it.

[Red74]

You seen how complicit the written media are with these cunts after how quickly they closed ranks behind that fat juice head who elbowed robbo last season. Everyone of them all fell into line that next morning and all followed the same story making it impossible for us to take it further with the powers that be. If I was robbo id have sued the cunt for assault.

 

They sit there sneering at the corruption in the foreign leagues yet the Italians, Spanish & Turks have recently gone after their own while our shitbags have sat on bombshells dating back to skys influence with the prem and utd to save their own money making careers.