Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City

"To everyone who met him, John Wayne Gacy seemed a likable and affable man.
"He was widely respected in the community, charming and easy to get along with.
Yep.

Not sure that Taylor will appreciate the comparison, though. Might be a bit harsh!

 

It's weird, isn't it? There seems to be a genuinely held belief that Spurs should have a higher level of sportsmanship than Liverpool or Chelsea, and deserve condemnation for the same thing that's winked at or even approved of when done by anyone else.

 

I think that we should have a higher level of sportsmanship than other clubs, but that's for the club to decide and the fans to maintain.
We're not given any credit for it when it is kept up, so why should we be punished for it when it isn't?

 

As with so much in English football, tis Spurs who must trail-blaze in order
that others can try to follow.

 

We were pretty much universal in our condemnation of Vardy last season when he 'bought' penalties in this fashion and in the main we have stated that Alli was in the wrong. Yet the vardy loving media convinced the world that this was just clever play and he certainly wasn't a diver!

Alli needs to cut it out but he as Poch has said he is not the first Englishman to dive, and he won't be the last

 

On the plus side, by steering the conversation towards Alli, none of the ex-pros getting comfy on the sofas of the BBC, Sky or BT Sports have had to comment about the ever-growing list of clubs implicated in historical sex abuse.

How convenient...

 

That's because almost every other person in the world saw that incident for what it was, two players going in with high feet to get a ball and a nasty collision between them.
No foul, no card, no complaint or interest from anyone other than you. In fast contact sports contact sometimes happens

 

A United fan defending Graham Poll. In other news, the Thames is wet and cold.

 

Which proves you didn't see it either.

One player went to head the ball, because the ball was head high. The other player who was further away went with his feet and caught the heading player in the face.

I'm sorry, but if you are going to comment, then watch the incident first.
Oh and BTW , the ref did give it as a foul.

 

I'd love for Dier to nastily collide with Zlatan's head and see if the United fans wave it off as an accident with no complaint.

 

Firstly the concern is that Walker was not seriously injured - and it shouldn't need me to point out that a boot to the head has the potential to be far more serious than most things that a red card (and even additional retrospective punishments) are routinely awarded for. Having established that it may surprise you that my main reason to keep going back to this is the astonishing lack of coverage that this incident received (and not to get the Swansea player a retrospective red card, which the FA clearly could have done but bottled). I think it is valid to mention that a lot (majority?) of the footie fans in the country don't even know that it happened and are trying to work out if Aguero or Rojo's foul was the worst of the weekend. We then wonder why it did not even feature in the MOTD highlights when so much then and since has concentrated on Alli. Sure pick up on that but do it even handedly. If you criticise Alli then criticise all the divers we regularly see. If you are going to point out how bad the previously mentioned fouls are then deal with Walker's assault as well. If the coverage of such things is not equal then we have every justification to point out the discrepancies.