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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    "You'll never whine alone": it's been three days and you don't even get that many posts when a decision goes against us (think Dier's handball against Saudi Sportswashing Machine a couple of years ago)! I take back my earlier statement: at this rate, we'll still be discussing it in 2027...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    Of course they are! They're not going to sabotage a product they paid a fortune to broadcast. As far as I can remember, there've always been people angry with the referees, claiming they favoured this or that team. Hell, I remember Ferguson's reign of terror when almost every decision went for...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    It's just speculation but I think the ref initially gave Jones a yellow card, didn't he?
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    That was a tongue-in-cheek comment (just to be on the safe side), although I do think most people know more about football (and specifically Liverpool fans) than I do. Twenty years ago, I'd watch games almost non-stop during the week-end. Now, I'm happy when I don't miss Spurs...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    We'll see. I've never had any interest in their club (always had a soft spot for Everton instead) so I can't claim to be an expert on their supporters but I'm not even sure I will remember any of it six months from now. Which makes my first sentence more like wishful thinking than anything else...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Liverpool OMT***

    Six months is a long time in football. How many people will remember what happened last Saturday by then? There will be plenty of controversy and drama in-between and even if some people do remember it, they won't feel the same about it. That's human nature. When you lose someone close to you...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    They still had the second-best attack in the Premier League last season. Right or wrong, they consider themselves title contenders and I'd expect a team challenging at that level to be able to make the most of such chances but I take your point that numbers say otherwise!
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    I did write that in all fairness but sometimes, when you write in a language that isn't your own, your words come out stronger than you thought they would! I think we agree on the scenario of the game but I'm in the 'everyone' camp. On more than one occasion in the first half, they nicked the...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    Apparently, he asked for a check on the penalty - although I'm not 100% sure. That's a different scenario. I disagree with the idea that football fans would know more than the average ref. There were very few Spurs fans where I grew up and throughout the 90s, I've had to watch games in pubs with...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    Quite frankly, I felt Jorginho was a major downgrade on Rice, if only because it seemed like he had a tough time getting into the rythm of the game. Let's be fair: they had a game mid-week and it was always likely they couldn't maintain that intensity throughout the 90 minutes. A very...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    They won a lot of duels and put us under a lot of pressure in the first half, particularly in the 10 minutes or so after Udogie's booking. They were lucky with their goal but Vicario made a great save on Jesus' shot; so did Raya to be fair but, for me, in the first half they were playing on the...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    Refereeing aside, it was an interesting game to watch, even though I felt we were mostly second best. On the plus side, we showed a lot of character and we never folded. It's also a good opportunity for me to eat a huge slice of humble pie: I said I wasn't a big fan of Bissouma earlier this...
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    ***TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Arsenal OMT***

    No, it's exactly the same as other fouls. You don't give away a free kick every time a player falls over. The stakes are higher with a handball but it's even more true when the referee has to dish out a yellow or a red card. I think what people have a hard time agreeing with is the fact that...
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    What do we need, and how will Levy go about fixing it?

    While I agree with @Bishop's philosophy, the flip side of the coin is that if you don't have an excellent scouting system or if you get your signings wrong for some critical positions, there's going to be a backlash. A poor reaction from the fans and the press getting on your back can really...
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    What do we need, and how will Levy go about fixing it?

    It's way too early to say anything for certain but it looks like there can be life without (arguably) the best striker in the world.
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    Scott Munn

    Better not say it out loud in Croatia or in Albania, though...
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    Luka Vuskovic

    Didn't get the chance to see him this summer but they've been talking about him for some time. Then again, I can't remember all the next big things that were supposed to break through the ranks at Hajduk in my lifetime. Nikola Vlasic was meant to be a huge player and he ended up having a...
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    Transfer fred.

    Certainly not trying to defend them but didn't MLS have a similar system in its early days? I think players signed a contract with the MLS itself and were then loaned to the various clubs/franchises. I could be wrong though as I never had much interest in it.
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    Transfer fred.

    I don't think it's about numbers, though. There's 35m people in Saudi Arabia vs 330m in the States and 1,4b in China. They'll never compete on that front. I'm not even sure anybody there really cares about football: it's all about changing the country's international reputation, something...
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    Sales

    Completely agree: it's well within their right. I'd even argue - against myself - that it was probably a more clever move for Fox than it is for Ndombele: his best years were behind him and I don't recall him as anything but a speed merchant. I don't even remember him as being that good of a...
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