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** OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool ** 8.1.25 at 8pm

Kompakted said:
Haha, yeah, Bergvall looks like a 90s presenter from The Mickey Mouse club that's just been signed to a boyband.

Odegaard does have the look of someone that's been dragged out of a week long techno festival in a forest somewhere in deepest Germany....
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On point! I saw several of those this past NYE!!!
 
DeanoAustin said:
Funnily enough, after about 10 or 15 mins, tonight reminded me of the Emirates Marketing Project CL quarter final. I went into that with no expectations or hope either and we managed a similar 1-0 win.

I'd settle for the same ultimate outcome albeit with a little less drama in the second leg than that City tie.
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Ha! I want them to think they've got us at 2-0 with 5 mins left, only for us to score in the 89th and Richy to score a 94th minute equaliser and put us through at the death!
As if the CL Final wasn't enough trauma, being up there when Richy equalised after we'd been 3 down to 3-3 and THEN seeing Lucas give away the winner was a nut-punch.
Let's do it to THEM!!!!!!
 
Robspur12 said:
He’s a decent player. Just that many of our fans don’t seem to rate him for some reason.
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Biss is a good player, but is constantly wrong side.
He waits to see what happens, then seems amazed that the ball is past him and he has to chase back.
A REALLY good player anticipates and can foresee where the pass is coming and where the danger lies, before it happens.
 
Daveeeeeeeed said:
I think we are quite lucky that the game is far away and Liverpool have time to fudge the league up or have some issues in games themselves. If it were next week for example then I think it would be too fresh.

Clutching but hope those clams get two footed by someone next week and then they write to the fa to complain and we are forgotten about
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I hope that they are doing well in the league but have close competition and i hope they do well in the champions league, mix that with a few injuries and fatigue and they could soon look at the league cup as a burden and put out a weaker team.
 
Muttley said:
Tonight showed what we all have to put up with Sky. I hate the lot of them.
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I missed the build up and the first half but my misses said that Dawson was taking the tinkle out of us and laughing and joking about us? She was quite confused as she said she thought Dawson was one of us.
 
Kandi1977 said:
Great to see Austin going out congratulating and giving Kinsky a hug. Dunno how I'd feel if I was him.
Been sat on the bench for years, finally gets a chance, comes in, does well and then immediately gets replaced by a kid that's come to the club 5 minutes ago.
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He needs to be playing regularly at his age, really. Deserves a 2nd Div loan, either somewhere they are struggling stats-wise and he might make an instant impact (Hull, Plymouth?) or maybe another London club (QPR, Millwall? (spit)), rather than just waiting in the wings for our injury crisis to deepen.
 
Daisuk said:
It hasn't been enforced like this since the creation of the rule, though. The extreme attention to detail is utterly absurd, as being a centimeter in offside give you absolutely zero advantage. I was all for VAR before it was introduced. I've been against it since the first season. It sucks. Brings nothing to the game. Suffocates it. Football loses a lot of joy when you can't spontaneously celebrate a goal.
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In absolute agreement with you. Like you, I was bang in favour of it until I saw what an utter dog's dinner they made of the implementation. It makes a complete mockery of the spirit of the law. Just because you can do something ... doesn't mean you should.
 
The Benatncur injury is very strange. There's nobody anywhere near him as he goes for the ball and he just seems to collapse. Very much looks like he's blacked out as he doesn't put arms out to break his fall.
Really hope this isn't some career ending neurological problem.
 
Muttley said:
As an England fan, I sat on a few planes with these media guys. Alan Smith is actually a nice guy, but clearly a naff commentator. My favourite was Brian Woolnough. Always used to stop and chat to us England fans and seek opinions before and after the games. GHod rest his soul. Chris Hollins was another we sat with. Another top bloke.

One journey back I had the pleasure of having Smith sitting in the row behind me. Just got his window seat and read his book. Didn't say a word.

The biggest prick on that entire plane was Richard Keys. I wasn't surprised what happened soon after that flight along with his mate Andy Gray. Just the way he spoke to the cabin crew (female) and the constant showing off. What a prick.
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Now there's a surprise ... NOT. He just always came across as a complete slimeball.

I always preferred Barry Davies's commentary to all the others. I'll get pushback for this as well, as he is Marmite for a lot of people, but I used to enjoy Jonathan Pearce's evocative radio commentary on Capital when he was paired with Alan Mullery, who was (unintentionally) hilarious with his -isms.

"I don't think he was fouled there, Jonathan, I think he's gone over on his own ability."
 
thfcsteff said:
It's been happening a lot more than the narrative allows people's eyes to see. The main reason it was noticed tongith was because for the first time since Vic, we had a keeper playing who suits what we do. BTW, the phase of the game where we looked the shakiest was towards the end of the first-half where we basically sat in as deeply as I can remember for some time.
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Steff I respect you immensely but that line is a bit patronising and unlike you. The keeper was really good which helped but there is no doubt for me that the big game changer was in the middle of the park. The double pivot tracked back to help the defence out more effectively than I have seen in previous games. I know you re suggesting this has been happening for a while but I’m afraid I haven’t seen it as effective as tonight. Liverpool were denied space and because the fbs were actually defending too, there were not the overloads that we have seen earlier in the season. It’s not just about being unlucky in other games, we played differently tonight. In fact I have seen comments that “it was a bit boring today” because we were not engaged in relentless attacks and getting caught out at the back.
 
thfcsteff said:
It's been happening a lot more than the narrative allows people's eyes to see. The main reason it was noticed tongith was because for the first time since Vic, we had a keeper playing who suits what we do. BTW, the phase of the game where we looked the shakiest was towards the end of the first-half where we basically sat in as deeply as I can remember for some time.
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This idea that Ange hasn't changed up until today is just narrative gonads. How do people not remember Emirates Marketing Project at home last season? Just the other day vs Saudi Sportswashing Machine, we changed it up loads too -- you can't tell me we were using the goalkeeper in the same way? In fact, tonight it looked like the players were hesitant at times to play it back because they've got to adapt the other way now.
 
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Robspur12 said:
Steff I respect you immensely but that line is a bit patronising and unlike you. The keeper was really good which helped but there is no doubt for me that the big game changer was in the middle of the park. The double pivot tracked back to help the defence out more effectively than I have seen in previous games. I know you re suggesting this has been happening for a while but I’m afraid I haven’t seen it as effective as tonight. Liverpool were denied space and because the fbs were actually defending too, there were not the overloads that we have seen earlier in the season. It’s not just about being unlucky in other games, we played differently tonight.
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That might all be true. The bit that's not true is that the "omg finally he changed!" nonsense.

Edit: I think it’s just a case of “he hasn’t changed in the exact way I want him to, therefore he hasn’t changed.”
 
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mudshark said:
Now there's a surprise ... NOT. He just always came across as a complete slimeball.

I always preferred Barry Davies's commentary to all the others. I'll get pushback for this as well, as he is Marmite for a lot of people, but I used to enjoy Jonathan Pearce's evocative radio commentary on Capital when he was paired with Alan Mullery, who was (unintentionally) hilarious with his -isms.

"I don't think he was fouled there, Jonathan, I think he's gone over on his own ability."
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Jonathan Pearce was a good commentator on the radio. It was when he moved to TV commentating that his radio style just didn't work.
 
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