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Match Prediction

  • Spurs win

    Votes: 36 33.3%
  • Leicester win

    Votes: 29 26.9%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 42 38.9%
  • Goalless Draw

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Total voters
    108
  • Poll closed .

JUSTINSIGNAL

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Jul 10, 2008
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Mad thing is, we actually played pretty well. If we had won 2-1 it wouldn’t have been undeserved. Equally Leicester were good too, they just edged us out in the end, with the crowd behind them. I’m pissed off we lost but it wasn’t a bad performance compared to some of our others this season.
 

spids

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Jul 19, 2015
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He was offside marginally, you could see it before it even went to VAR his shoulder was slightly ahead, unfortunate but the right call

Only parts of your body you can score with can be offside. During the VAR review they zoomed right in and you still couldn’t tell one way or the other. It’s criminal.
 

Gareth88

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Sep 19, 2017
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Only parts of your body you can score with can be offside. During the VAR review they zoomed right in and you still couldn’t tell one way or the other. It’s criminal.
Criminal is a bit of an overreaction. So his shoulder was offside which you can score from, he was offside. Taking off Sissoko and replacing him with Wanyama turned the game in their favour along with the fact we travelled to Greece midweek and had an early kick off today.
 

SargeantMeatCurtains

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Jan 5, 2013
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He was offside marginally, you could see it before it even went to VAR his shoulder was slightly ahead, unfortunate but the right call
There is no way anybody can say for certain whether or not Son was offside. The angle used by the officials to make that decision is not accurate nor appropriate.

The only true way of having a review system that can correctly overrule an on field decision is to have a pitch side, photo-finish like camera that tracks play. It’s important to remember the official on the pitch, who has the best possible view, deemed it onside.

We can argue all day whether it was offside or not, but ultimately those saying it was offside, including the VAR team, had one incredibly angled still image to work with.

My final opinion is that it was completely incorrect to overrule the on-field decision.
 

shelfboy68

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Jun 14, 2008
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Watching city take Watford apart and can't help thinking if we played Watford the game would have ended 2-2, shame our team can't pass and move like this a joy to watch a well coached team.
 

Gareth88

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Sep 19, 2017
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There is no way anybody can say for certain whether or not Son was offside. The angle used by the officials to make that decision is not accurate nor appropriate.

The only true way of having a review system that can correctly overrule an on field decision is to have a pitch side, photo-finish like camera that tracks play. It’s important to remember the official on the pitch, who has the best possible view, deemed it onside.

We can argue all day whether it was offside or not, but ultimately those saying it was offside, including the VAR team, had one incredibly angled still image to work with.

My final opinion is that it was completely incorrect to overrule the on-field decision.
If you watch it in real time he looks off you are right though going tit for tat on this is useless as the decision was given and won't be reversed also more factors than that goal being disallowed cost us the game. VAR in it's infancy and a camera going up and down the line would be a great idea
 

Daytripper

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Jul 16, 2011
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He was offside marginally, you could see it before it even went to VAR his shoulder was slightly ahead, unfortunate but the right call
But VAR is there for clear and obvious errors, being 10mm offside (he wasn’t offside by the way) isn’t a clear and obvious enough error to have it ruled out.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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He was offside marginally, you could see it before it even went to VAR his shoulder was slightly ahead, unfortunate but the right call
I don't agree you could see it before it went to var it was level to the naked eye. Someone asked why his red line was thicker than the defender's blue line it wasn't but was laid over it which offers a solution to the problem, if you lay out the lines and they overlap it's not offside thus giving the striker the benefit of the doubt which I believe is standard, with no similar level of scrutiny of when the ball is kicked I think that is fair.
 

Gareth88

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But VAR is there for clear and obvious errors, being 10mm offside (he wasn’t offside by the way) isn’t a clear and obvious enough error to have it ruled out.
From the telegraph website: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/var-premier-league-explained-does-work-decisions-can-changed/
The concept of 'clear and obvious' errors does not apply to offsides. A player is either onside or offside - you cannot be a little bit pregnant. So even if a player is offside by a matter of inches, the goal will be ruled out, which is exactly what happened with Manchester City's third-goal-that-never-was at West Ham.
 

THX2208

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Dec 6, 2006
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I really do hate to say it but I think this is 100% accurate! We look great going forward and are playing very exciting football but we look so vulnerable at the back, its actually seems to be getting worse. We are going to struggle to make top 6 let alone top 4. I hope I'm wrong and we get our defence sorted out ASAP.
COYS ????❤
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EZSpur

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Jun 6, 2007
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Watching city take Watford apart and can't help thinking if we played Watford the game would have ended 2-2, shame our team can't pass and move like this a joy to watch a well coached team.

Spot on!
As much as people think Pep has had an easy ride with buckets of money to spend however he likes - he's an amazing coach and the fluidity he gets is just out of this world.

Poch started to do this for us too - with the press and the high line, we've been able to win the ball back and pass it around - but we've never seemed to push on from this, in fact the press is now much weaker and our passing tends to go backwards.

Call it knee-jerk or whatever else but I think we're in trouble and I don't have a clue how it's happened!

Vexed!!
 

Matthew Wyatt

Call me Boris
Aug 3, 2007
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The hair’s breadth VAR decision was the best argument against VAR I’ve seen, and Pochettino’s continuing failure to play Lucas Moura remains unfathomable to me. Wanyama to protect a one goal lead when they always looked like scoring? Poch needs to stop blaming his players’ attitude and look to himself. It’s his fucking job to get it right.
 

double0

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Aug 29, 2006
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I really do hate to say it but I think this is 100% accurate! We look great going forward and are playing very exciting football but we look so vulnerable at the back, its actually seems to be getting worse. We are going to struggle to make top 6 let alone top 4. I hope I'm wrong and we get our defence sorted out ASAP.
COYS ????❤ View attachment 55587
We've looked shit at the back for some time weird how nobody is picking up on the Toby Vert partnership . It s been absolutely shocking
 

Gareth88

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Sep 19, 2017
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I don't agree you could see it before it went to var it was level to the naked eye. Someone asked why his red line was thicker than the defender's blue line it wasn't but was laid over it which offers a solution to the problem, if you lay out the lines and they overlap it's not offside thus giving the striker the benefit of the doubt which I believe is standard, with no similar level of scrutiny of when the ball is kicked I think that is fair.
This is why VAR was brought in because when I saw the ball played to Son from my position he was off. I thought we got away with it until the VAR check. I have no idea about lines being thicker or why, as I said previously VAR in its infancy and these debates will be a thing of the past with more time. It's benefited us previously and will cost us the future as well.
 

Phomesy

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Aug 20, 2013
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From the telegraph website: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/var-premier-league-explained-does-work-decisions-can-changed/
The concept of 'clear and obvious' errors does not apply to offsides. A player is either onside or offside - you cannot be a little bit pregnant. So even if a player is offside by a matter of inches, the goal will be ruled out, which is exactly what happened with Manchester City's third-goal-that-never-was at West Ham.

That's fair enough but this wasn't even a "matter of inches". It was millimetres. That's the bit I don't quite understand - how could they be sure he was off fro the pictures we saw? Is there some kind of laser technology? Because that's how tight it was.
 
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