Quote Originally Posted by ArnieArdiles View Post
Well I'd say most of us knew a major decision was gonna go against us before kick-off, but I'm sure you'd agree, we didn't lose the game 5-1 because of that fcuk up? We got beat because once again , just like the past few months we've put in yet another poor 'team' performance .
Let's not be in denial about this , we were poor , very poor and that's what hurt the most, the fact that the Chavs didn't even have to be very good to humiliate us ....
gonads, total gonads. Not ONE decision, big or small, went our way, it was getting to be a psychologically horrific, and until Harry made the mistake again of thinking that Jermain and Rafa are the same player because, well, they're the same height, then we were odds on to equalize and win...that was NOT a 5-1 game...
Each to their own I guess ...
You're correct, due to the injustice we felt, we roused ourselves and managed to get back into the game but it was short-lived .....Once we got our goal they played keep ball and we didn't have the legs to get it back..
To me it was not a good performance by us , it was lacking in many ways... We're at present a team lacking in team spirit, leadership , confidence the ingredients to win big games ...
For example the 2008 CC Final....
In 2008 we went to Wembley and won a Carling Cup with a better Spurs team against a better Chav team ....
On that day , we had a hunger about us to get after the Chavs ...Up top, we had Berbatov and Keane with their understanding, giving Carvalho and Terry problems ...Yesterday I didn't see anything like that from our two most forward players in VDV & Adybayour ...
Out on the wings we had Lennon and Steed who on that day performed better than Bale & Lennon did yesterday ....
In midfield , we had Jenas & Zokora getting their tackles in for two hours against the likes of Essien , not Mikel, whilst yesterday we had our midfield drop away after 45 minutes and didn't really get snappy untill after the injustice of that ghost goal but then it died down again once we scored .
Our central defenders in the Carling Cup were the assured, Woodgate (MOTM) and a fit Ledders , up against Drogba & Anelka. Yesterday we had an unsure Gallas & Ledders up against the lone front man , Drogba...
Back then , we also had a manager when looking at the scoreline and how the game needed something different , deciding to take off a defender i.e Chimbonda and put on another midfielder , Huddlestone .
I understand all this, decisions are going against us and agree the referee was not doing his job correctly for giving a goal, because he just couldn't be 100% about it. But we cant sit here and be in denial about it all ... We weren't really that good and I don't think they were either, yet we got dingdonged 5-1...
Ramos' CC team V Harry's team in a one off big game ...I know who'd I back to win everytime ...
