Yep, it's what we should do as well. It's why we don't win trophies and why our record away against the top 6 is so brick. It's why we're brick in Europe, despite consistently being lauded as one of the two or three top teams.
It is noteworthy. They won. We lost. This team won't be remembered because r they lost to Gent and waa waa, they didn't let us just walk over them and play our game. I mean Wtf? This is the kind of brick we used to laugh at arsenal fans about? You think a ferguson or mourinho team would fall for this brick against a tema like this?
Yeah I hope we get more of these players too. I hope we get players that know when to fall over to attract a free kick that gives out team a breather. I hope we get players that do sly tackles. I hope we get players that can manage a team and a game like that. So that we can go to Stamford Bridge or old Trafford or the bernabau or the Allianz arena and go through in a big European tie.
Because I want us to win.
Or we can all cry about the ref and feel sorry for ourselves as we fall short yet again.
Yes. They won. That is not noteworthy to me - firstly, because they're an opposing side and I couldn't care less what they do, and secondly, because even if I were magnanimous enough to find opposing teams succeeding against noteworthy, they did nothing worth remembering that couldn't also have been done by Telford United or some Vanarama League team with a helpfully corrupt ref on their side. Panic, fall over a lot, steam into our lads, slip a brown envelope under the ref's door at half-time, fall over a lot, steam into our lads, panic, fall over a lot...etcetera, etcetera.
Make no mistake, I want us to do that too. I want us to be as c*ntish as possible if it's what wins titles. We are in 100% agreement on this - I'm not one for nobility and being the bigger man when the world is evidently out to f*ck us, and I'd rather we paid everyone back in the same coin if it meant winning.
This is not to excuse the fact that we lost to Gent. We lost, it is a failure, and in an ideal world the ref could send off all 80,000 Spurs fans, ten of the players and Poch and we'd still whallop c*nts like these with just Toby on the field. But...this is only to point out that they did literally nothing noteworthy for me to go 'you know what? I'll note that as something worth remembering.'
Can we blame the ref for the fact that the one clear cut chance we created in the first half today was down to a 3 player error from them?
No way for me.
A) That's an exaggeration, and B) even allowing for the essential truth of that statement, I made it clear that we were still letting ourselves down throughout the game. Be it via a lot of individual errors or Kane being outdone by a Belgian league defender.
