Sunderland manager Gus Poyet: "It's painful. (...) and I think we should have had a penalty for a foul on Jermain Defoe.
"I thought Jermain was unlucky to be caught offside.
Believe @Mr Pink should be calling for this lineman's head, as his tripe prevented Pink from correctly predicting the score.
That is true, he also called Defoe onside in the lead up to their goal.Lino had made a couple of bad calls before this as well
I've been astonished by the poor refereeing all season
Our problem is a personnel problem.
I know your solution is 433 and everything is magic, but that wouldn't be the case - we need to replace some of these players. That fact will always remain.
A win is a win but still concerned we give the opposition too much space and chances, as lloris kept us in it when we should have won easily.
Dude...AVB...let it go, bruv...let it go.Mate, I've been saying there's a personnel problem for a long time, but then everyone insisted it was AVB's mind control program.
I think 433 would help, but formations are never the bottom line, it's what you do within them, what gets coached. This season is a write off for me, regardless of where we finish, we are winning games the same way we did under AVB, but looking less sound defensively while we do it, controlling less of games too (although not today). I just hope that a full pre-season, a couple of personnel tweaks, and the integration of more development players with better ethos makes a difference, but it really does need to improve, because I can't really see any defined ethos, and we are not particularly well organised either (like Suthampton are for example).
Marry her!Is it little understood? I've known that rule since I was a kid, I just explained what happened to my girlfriend and the first thing she said was "But you can't be offside in your own half?" - I don't think he was trying to be clever at all. I think he was absolutely fucking retarded and should apologise to Spurs/Jan for such a fundamental mistake.
I also think he should never work in the game at this level again. Absolutely indefensible decision, up there with the Mendes Old Trafford goal or the "Adebayor offside with three Stoke players standing on the goal-line" decision - funnily enough in another Chris Foy game.