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MF looks back on Stoke 2-1 Tottenham
Fan Articles, Match Reports, News, Our Season | MF | December 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
Well that was very disappointing. Some weak defending against the tree trunks and that oh so tedious long throw got us into a mess we in the end deserved to wriggle out of but didn’t thanks to the inept eccentricities of Chris Foy who first of all gave us a controversial penalty lifeline, then denied two a million times clearer spot kick claims. He compounded this by cutting us off at the knees in sending off Kaboul for two yellow cards, the first of which was given for moaning to Foy about one of the penalty shouts. The ref’s mistake, the player’s the one who misses a game. Great.
There’s no excuse for poor defending and we looked to be second best and on our heels constantly during the first half as Stoke attacked. It’s no surprise that the danger came from the skies, we looked unprepared though, especially Benny who was isolated and made to look vulnerable several times. We went into the break two down.
The team will feel hard done by though after a much better showing following a formation rejig at half time. Foy’s ineffectiveness brought disbelief from the Stoke fans after Luka went down despite initially apparently evading Whelan’s foul challenge. Adebayor casually tucked away the pen but despite the ire of the Britannia it was the away team who were left constantly bawling in the ref’s ear as first Kaboul was mugged by Shawcross (I think – could’ve been Huth) at a corner, the same player then cleared off the line with his arm, whilst Bale and Adebayor looked astonished as appalling decisions were given against us whilst we attacked. Add in Adebayor’s perfectly good disallowed equaliser and to say we were aggrieved is an understatement.
We were poor at the outset and gave ourselves the proverbial mountain to climb. We nearly did it though, thanks to the tactical switch and plenty of good football from Walker, Modric, Parker and Adebayor. The latter two thus suffered their first defeat in a Spurs shirt. Hopefully it’ll be another twelve games before they experience their second.
By MF
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Referees are the obvious targets as they do not earn what the players earn, recent decisions for nearly all EPL teams suggest that something is wrong.
We all know that cricket betting did not alter the match significantly but then these minor things in a game like one penatly, number of corners, first red card (1st or 2nd half). We are seeing bad decisions go for and agianst us so something is up.
I have watch football over the years and ok we have more replays now but even the last 15 years we have seen a higher level of these errors occur in the last two years.
I backed us to win 1-0 at Old Trafford that day + theres no way I would have risked my fiver if I had known that.
We absolutely pummeled them. Harry's changes were fantastic. What more should we have done?
We put the ball in the back of the net – offside – wrong
We fired shots at goal only to be saved on the line illegally – penalty not given
We tried to head the ball in – Kaboul judo thrown to the floor – penalty not given – Kaboul booked for dissent (his glasses gesticulation was great)
We put them under continuous pressure – despite two clear as day corners not being given
They even redrew their pitch for-fucks-sake to give us less space. Tell me, what team would have won that game!?
I have never seen a refereeing performance like that. It was amazing!