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Tottenham vs Sheffield United Thoughts

Tottenham vs Sheffield United Thoughts

Tottenham vs Sheffield United Thoughts


Well, I have written about pressure causing fatigue, I have written about anxiety causing mistakes, I have written about desire, about total belief in what you're doing, about a winning mentality, about being ready to produce if you come on as a substitute and we saw the lot yesterday.

Maddison had a stone wall penalty turned down, the Sheffield United defenders were mauling our players to stop runs, not just grabbing a shirt.

If you watch their goal again, do not follow the ball, watch Dejan Kulusevski who gets dragged forward to leave the goalscorer free space. An error of judgement there was punished with a shank that luckily for them hit a post and went in.

Which rule allows a ref to stop a game when we have the ball and give it to the opposition?

Which rule allows the referee to prevent us from taking a quick corner simply because something might or might not happen in the crowd?

People in the crowd must have known who was throwing the balls so why didn't they stop them?

Is everyone comfortable that Vicario is comfortable and improving in goal now?

Can you all see the difference between Destiny Udogie who has been playing and developing each week and squad player Ryan Sessegnon who has struggled to look worthy of a place when he isn't injured.

There were 3 cards issued, well technically 4, after the winning goal in the 100th minute, 2 yellows for Spurs, 1 for Brentford, which was ridiculous if it was for dissent, resulting in a red.

How can you get 4 minutes of injury time in the 12 added minutes of play, when you only give 3 minutes in 45 minutes of play with several long stoppages for injuries?

Spurs didn't celebrate for 4 minutes.

I'd like to see an explanation because it makes no sense.

At different periods of the game that referee was applying different rules.

How on earth can you issue 14 cards in a game like that? Madness.

Sheffield United goalkeeper Wes Fotheringham was subjected to racist insults, offensive and threatening messages against him and his family by the vile filth that call themselves supporters of this club.

These scum are not people I want to be associated with, thinking they can get away with anything through anonymous social media accounts. 

This is why I firmly believe all social media accounts should be verified so the company knows who they are and can immediately help the Police track them down.

Cancel their season tickets and ban them from the ground for life.

This is being reported in the Italian press and no doubt other international press around the world to damage our image, the perception of us and our brand, which could affect potential future commercial deals, that pay for the football.

You care about your club so you bring it into the realm of racism, disgusting people.

Tottenham vs Sheffield United Thoughts

Back to healthier matters.

Fans and pundits still seem to be assessing Spurs as if we are the finished article when in truth we are nowhere near it.

This is still the beginning.

Yesterday showed a stutter, the finishing wasn't clinical enough until injury time.

I thought Bissouma kept taking his eye of the ball and miscontrolling it.

I thought some of the passing at the back was again laboured allowing the opposition to reset before our guy has received a pass and controlled it.

I thought Bissouma fractionally delayed his shot when he breezed through their defence and I feel that was difference between a goal and a save.

I think Micky Van de Ven (the cheap option) is one hell of a buy and I place that signing alongside James Maddison, who in an earlier article I wrote proved with his stats he was at least on a par with Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United.

I think Destiny Udogie was probably the buy of last summer although Sarr has to push him close, both signing the Twitterati abused our chairman for!

Udogie is streets ahead of any left-back we have had in years, he's certainly better than Danny Rose in his prime.

At his age Ivan Perišić knows he is only going to be a substitute but he must be loving the fact that he is now a winger and not a full-back. It was his corner that led to Richarlison powering his header into the net and the second goal came down that side too with Højbjerg involved too.

There were signs of anxiety out there, players losing a bit of focus complaining about things they can't change, even if they were in the right sometimes.

The ref lost control and his game was one of trying to drag himself out of a hole but only digging it deeper.

Isn't it good to see Youtubers, journalists, experts all only now start to jump on the mindset bandwagon, years behind.

And that just demonstrates one of the problems I talk about, that people don't look outside their comfort zone, they don't expand their horizons, their thinking is limited to what they are taught.

Surely if you are a pundit on TV you should be educating yourself still, not trotting out the same old stuff that any Ton, Dick or Harry in the crowd can trot out.

Surely their job is to educate on what the fans doesn't know, to educate the fan but when do you hear something new?

We just get the same old, same old.

COYS

2 comments

  1. Some very good points about the ref (Peter Bankes) Clive. However, I can understand him failing to see the Maddison penalty from his position. Even one of the VAR angles was inconclusive - but not the other. From that angle it was a clear & obvious error and failing to draw the ref's attention to that is an absolute failure to do the job assigned. Disgraceful; no possible excuse.

    The ref's repeated adverse rulings, from unwarrantedly holding up play at corners & FKs to awarding an offside decision when we clearly had possession anyway further up the field, to delaying us when we had the audacity to take that quickly, and even to giving possession away to the other team, after he'd stopped play for multiple balls on the pitch, were at least consistent. All adverse decisions for Spurs and none appropriate.

    After the frustrations though, the most important point you've already raised is that we continued to put pressure on them and never buckled under it oursel…
  2. Very happy to see Richie get another goal and assist.

    COYS!!