Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United

Stevie Wonder would've noticed him handling the ball. I'm not sure how you didn't. Ask your ****ing guide dog.

 

The man was falling and had to put his hand/arm some where to stop his fall. I hope you accept that as a handball later in the season

 

It's not about what I think is a handball, but about what's being given and the current standard.

 

It's about the rules mate

 

Laws - football has laws not rules, and as you know as a regular visitor to this splendid forum they are applied differently to teams that play in red in the north of the country by a group of match officials who predominantly come from the north of the country! Maybe today will be the day that we get a penalty at Old Trafford for the first time in about 30 years but I won't hold my breath.

 

What you have to ask yourself is would that be a penalty in the Spurs penalty area. The answer is almost certainly yes

 

30 years? The last one that I could find was in 1955. Johnny Gavin scored one at Old Trafford in a 2-2 draw.
It's possible that we missed some in that time, but I can't find any others that we've had there. Ever.

 

Wow, I had it in my mind that I had read that Lineker got one for us, but I bow to your more superior research.

 

Lineker did score one for us against Man Utd in 1991, but it was at White Hart Lane.
Man Utd then went on to get a very dodgy one, Gazza got sent off for protesting when we didn't get another one for a foul on Lineker and they won 2-1.