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Redknapp hits back at Spurs fans and referee
News | admin | November 9, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Harry Redknapp has hit out at referee Howard Webb and the Tottenham boo boys.
Spurs were held to a 1-1 draw against Sunderland at White Hart Lane on Tuesday night. Redknapp was unhappy with Webb’s decision to book David Bentley for diving in the box when the midfielder went down under a challenge from Boudewijn Zenden inside the box.
He said: “It was a penalty, a blatant penalty, wasn’t it? I just watched the replay of it.
“How he (Webb) can book him…
“He’s not got anything against Tottenham or anybody else but it’s how he saw it.
“I’ve never been one for criticising referees; it’s never been my game.
“But it was a blatant penalty tonight.
“If you get the penalty, it could make a big difference.”
He added when asked about the boos from the home fans on the final whistle: “What have they got to moan about? What they see here and what they’ve seen here.
“We couldn’t have done any more tonight; we couldn’t have tried any harder.”
He continued: “At the end of the day, you’ve got (Aaron) Lennon, you’ve got (Jermain) Defoe, you’ve got (Ledley) King and you’ve got (Michael) Dawson – you’ve got key players missing.
“I couldn’t come in and say we were crap or we didn’t play well.
“We worked our socks off.”
And in a jibe laced with irony, he said of the supporters: “They’ve had it so good over the years, you see.
“When you keep winning league championships every year, you get upset when you don’t win.”
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He's all for bigging it up when we do well in the champions league – no mention of missing players then. Maybe he should start looking at himself for fault. Wierd selections, poor tactics, inconsistent substitutions.
Sandra over the breakfast table imo.
COYS
Sunderland defended well.
We are getting annoyed at the fact that despite being a third of the way into the season we haven’t seen seen ONE good 90 minute league performance. We want to see our players trying hard every game and know that we are better than EVERY team we’ve played so far this season yet have struggled to get points home and away. We completely mug Inter yet can’t beat one of the worst away teams in the league despite 17 shots on goal and some 15 corners. We are sick of seeing the ball hoofed 60 yards in Crouch’s direction when we have genuine ball players in the team every match. You had a hand in scrapping our reserve team so now our returnees look out of form.
Having a dig at a boo that lasted all of 5 seconds while throwing out “one of those days” style reasons is getting very old very quickly. You’re supposed to be a man manager yet Van der Vaart and Bale aside noone is playing as well as we know they can so bloody have a word and fix it. We’ve been loud and supportive all season despite not getting the results we should, so how about you and the boys repay us with performances and not some snarky comment when you couldn’t manufacture a win when the team dominated from start to finish but still dropped points.
Its like they say, you only know what you’ve got when its gone. Its astonishing really, when Redknapp starts bagging points in the Prem, im sure you lot will start moaning about poor FA Cup performances. When did we last have both a league championship and champions league to contend with? He hasn’t been perfect, don’t get me wrong. But we have’nt booed previous incumbents who have managed a far worse job than that Redknapp has managed to pull off.
Spout any of this garbage to a fan who has followed spurs for 20 years, and you are sure to get a slap. We may also play in white, but we sure are’nt Real Madrid.