***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs KAA Gent - 2nd Leg***

[milo]

Son for Davies to give us greater goal threat.

That's what I'd do too.

 

[SpurMeUp]

Doubt they will get nervy. They seem far more cool headed than us.

If we get one, they will!

Have to get one back...then its on.

 

[Bullet]

I think people are going a little overboard in their comments about him though.

It was wild and right on the knee, could easily have ruptured that guy's ligaments.

Redknapp and Hoddle think it was a leg-breaker that could have finished the guy's career and is indefensible (or "undefendable" as Glenn said!) yet you and Scaramanga are defending him

 

[thfcsteff]

VERY important to win the game.

 

[PochettinoPochettinoPochettino]

You're married to Helen Keller?

I wish, could call her a clam and get away with it.

 

[glasgowspur]

I can't think of a great team that hasn't had at least one.

Very true and something I've said about us. But that wasn't nasty, it was almost evil.

 

[wiziwig]

I do think some of our shooting is so tinkle poor. Over the bar for gazillionth time...

Alli you divvy you had it coming, just be thankful you didn't break a fellow pros leg..Should've apologised..

Son and Janssen on Davies and Dier off..45 minute game.. COYS!!

 

[Hotshot-Tottenham]

At least my Mrs doesn't think alli meant to do it and there wasn't anything wrong with the challenge.

Eyesight not the strong point?

 

[thfcsteff]

will he, he was doing that a year ago

he has got a LOT better this season mate, let's be fair, he has been very measured. This was a bad blip. I won't hold it against him, but it was a shocker.

 

[DubaiSpur]

No way. That's just not a considered rational tackle. He loses his head, simple as that.

You might see it as unfair considering previous decisions by the ref. But that's very different.

Yes, considering the team situation. Individually, I don't blame him for taking a piece out of that pr*ck, who cleaned him out half a second prior to that and (prior to that) spent five minutes writing and moaning on the floor after their second corner trying to get a pen before springing up and happily running about again when he felt the game had moved on.

In an ideal world, he'd clean the guy out in an innocuous situation - a challenge for a high ball begetting a vicious elbow in the ribs, or a slide-tackle to prevent a throw-in 'unfortunately' colliding with his standing foot. Completely accidental, ref. No malice involved, honest. Honest.

That's what Del Boy needs to learn - how to make sure c*nts don't f*ck with you the sly way.

 

[Robbo]

It was wild and right on the knee, could easily have ruptured that guy's ligaments.

Redknapp and Hoddle think it was a leg-breaker that could have finished the guy's career and is indefensible (or "undefendable" as Glenn said!) yet you and Scaramanga are defending him

Well he's still on! [emoji23]

 

[SpurMeUp]

Of course he is responsible for his actions. It was a poor challenge and he has paid the price. I think people are going a little overboard in their comments about him though, he is still young, he is one of our best players, there is a little bite in his game but his hunger is one of the things that make him good.

...and it was probably a foul on him which raised the red mist. Not cool. Probably put us out of Europe, but we're still in with a fighting chance...

 

[thfcsteff]

He's still very young and would be half the player he is without the bite in his game.

I agree, again, won't hold this against him but it was an awful challenge, Adam-esque sadly :-(

 

[PochettinoPochettinoPochettino]

Eyesight not the strong point?

She's married to me, probably gives it away.

 

[Robbo]

No changes??

 

[DubaiSpur]

Alli is obviously a fantastic player but i really cant take to him. Seems a nasty little bastard.

Nah, he's a nice kid. He shows up to all sorts of charity stuff without it being publicized or getting into the papers. He genuinely doesn't seem to want that sort of publicity - he seems to do it because it's the right thing to do.

He's full of confidence in his own abilities and he has a nasty temper, but that doesn't make him a bad guy off the field in any way. On the field, maybe - but I want more of that from our side, not less. Just more smartly managed, is all.

 

[thfcsteff]

I think some people have to remember Delete is only a kid.


We have played really well tonight. Two silly individual mistakes.


Eriksen is complete class apart at this level.


Winks for Wanyama now? Son for Davies?

Good changes those.

 

[Rorschach]

Wow. That was nearly an epic own goal.

 

[scaramanga]

Ridiculous statement.
He had every right to expect a sending off at the expense of further EL participation for his club.

Only if the match is being reffed properly - it clearly wasn't.

If he has ended our participation in the BT Sport 5 circus then he's done us all all favour.

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[DubaiSpur]

We're in the tricky position of being close enough to be in with a chance but far enough away that we fall a little short. I still think that is better than supporting a club in the lower leagues that is struggling to stay afloat.

It is, and it isn't. With the latter option, at least you're not deluded with hope that you'll stop being the archetypical bottlers - you're so f*cked no one particularly cares enough to even stereotype you. Your team is a blank slate, on which great successes or great failures can be forged some day.

With Spurs, we're well known enough that the 'bottlers' tag sticks - with good reason, it sometimes seems.