Post match: Spurs v Liverpool (EPL 20/12/25 5.30pm)

[GermanRed]

Then this is what it reminds me of

[Hope.in.your.heart]

@Mascot

@jaffod

We are a spineless club and have been for years.

I’ve asked this a few times, but what do you actually think we should do? What course of action is open to the club.

I’m not saying this for needle. I’m genuinely curious what you think we can do.

My opinion on what the club should do: Hughes, as the SD, should be all over it whenever the refs and PMGOL commit mistakes. That way, Slot and the players would stay out of the firing line, but the message would still come across. Hughes however is nowhere to be seen on occasions like this. Same with our previous SDs. Why?

I actually agree with jaffod: the club is spineless. The whole country knows it, and especially PGMOL / the refs. And so, they continue to f*ck us over at every occasion.

[Redbj]

@Limiescouse

Rio completely dropped a bollock on Forest’s third the last time he came on and so don’t imagine he’ll be coming on in one of those all hands on the deck situation for a good while.

yeah, much better to let the established players drop bollocks…

jokes aside, robertson should have come on first, and should have come on earlier…

id bloody love to see Rio start to get game time though, mistakes and all…if not now? then when?..otherwise let the kid play on someone elses pitch for a while, hes way too good to stagnate (i am a serial offender of overating youth players, but im pretty sure this one is well worth the time investment)

[Redbj]

id love rio to get more match exposure, but i think Slot was correct in putting on Robbo, maybe should have put him on sooned even…

but yeah…time to see a bit more of this kid

[Redbj]

@Sportbilly1966

highlights it in facts

have a rant about ‘facts’ you say?

could work…could work…

[Sportbilly1966]

Yep!

Question - Was It late?
Answer - Yes

Question - Was it reckless?
Answer - Yes, he was out of control?

Question - Was It using excessive force?
Answer - Yes

Question - Did it endanger the safety of the player?
Answer - A big Fucking YES

I rest my case your honour

[FGred]

I would also love to see Chiesa for at least 60 min on the pitch.

[Mascot]

@Limiescouse

@Ricky_Martin

Isak is lucky he didnt get sent off for this, placing his foot down in VdV’s space like that. He could have done the lad some serious damage

I was thinking Isak had slowed down to initiate contact. Probably something like that.

[Sportbilly1966]

Definitely not a foul, he didn’t see Isak as he had his eyes closed so it is incidental and an accident blah blah blah

[Mascot]

@Limiescouse

Pickford avoided it mainly because the ref just fucked up.

If I remember rightly, Oliver came out after the game and admitted it should have been red, but it was our fault that our players didn’t get round him and demand the decision, which I thought was quite a strange thing for a ref to come out with.

[Limiescouse]

@Mascot

@Limiescouse

Pickford avoided it mainly because the ref just fucked up.

If I remember rightly, Oliver came out after the game and admitted it should have been red, but it was our fault that our players didn’t get round him and demand the decision, which I thought was quite a strange thing for a ref to come out with.

He didn’t say it was our fault. He just pointed out that by the time they’d worked through the various other considerations everyone, the players included, had lost track that it was a potential red card offense and so he was able to restart the game without any sort of protest.

[koptician]

We are way too fucking polite for our own good.

If you don’t stand up for yourself, nobody else will.

Agree with @jaffod and @Hope.in.your.heart

[jaffod]

@Limiescouse

He didn’t say it was our fault. He just pointed out that by the time they’d worked through the various other considerations everyone, the players included, had lost track that it was a potential red card offense and so he was able to restart the game without any sort of protest.

The only process Coote on VAR was working through was tugging himself off watching the ball-boys.

[rab]

@Hope.in.your.heart

@Mascot

@jaffod

We are a spineless club and have been for years.

I’ve asked this a few times, but what do you actually think we should do? What course of action is open to the club.

I’m not saying this for needle. I’m genuinely curious what you think we can do.

My opinion on what the club should do: Hughes, as the SD, should be all over it whenever the refs and PMGOL commit mistakes. That way, Slot and the players would stay out of the firing line, but the message would still come across. Hughes however is nowhere to be seen on occasions like this. Same with our previous SDs. Why?

I actually agree with jaffod: the club is spineless. The whole country knows it, and especially PGMOL / the refs. And so, they continue to f*ck us over at every occasion.

I’m sorry but Hughes shouldn’t be speaking to the media about on field decisions. Not remotely in his remit or something we should be expecting him to do.

If the club wish to make complaints they can and there are avenues for that. It’ll make fuck all difference though as the refs will get the full backing of the league unless they’re caught sniffing lines on camera.

If anything, constantly moaning about decisions in public makes us look weaker. Frank comes out after the game moaning about the first sending off and the second goal and it looks like sour grapes and excuses. Right now our players don’t need people making excuses for them or planting the seed that it’s not their poor performances that have derailed our title defence.

The players on the pitch could shout at the ref, confront one of theirs or leave a foot in if they wish but all you do is rile up the home crowd, risk a booking/sending off yourself or lose their head thinking about revenge instead of the actual game. Bit like their lads did and we’re rightly deriding them for it.

As annoying as it is refs aren’t infallible, even with VAR. Expecting them to be so, well that way lies madness. We’ve come away from that game feeling aggrieved at some decisions, no doubt Spurs fans have too. But it does fuck all for the game or to improve the officiating to have DoFs coming out after every game to point out decisions they feel went against them.

[Rooster]

Weird how it was Spurs doing the ugly stuff.

Was thinking that kind of tactic was reserved for Atletico or 1970’s Leeds or Stoke or Crazy Gang. But Spurs? Or Frank? Or Micky VDV? Richarlison of course.

Spursy to completely fuck it up mind you.