Match Threads Spurs vs Manchester City - Match Thread

[davidmatzdorf]

due to the response, i've decided to invest my total winnings into tonights game. Going big!!

 

[southlondonyiddo]

he was the dirtiest bastard that ever crawled onto a british football field... he ended the careers of a few players

Fantastic player but a right dirty bastard. A bit like Roy Keane. Imagine him back in the 70's

 

[wishkah]

Lads. I'm minted. All 8.82 going into the SC coffers.

 

[Serpico]

You need to take off the spurs tinted glasses. Whilst I agree that Sterlings challenge should have probably warranted a red card, I have absolutely no doubt it wasn't done with any malicious intent. It was just a player challenging hard for the ball and Sterling's foot went over the top of it. I was more annoyed he wasn't booked for this obvious dive on the penalty rebound

'it wasn't done with any malicious intent' maybe not because subconsciously a player would never want to do that but the choice he made in the way he cowardly challenged for the ball, made it happened-guilty 100% scumbag , he deserves to get called out for it and punished.

 

[peispurs]

See you say that but the ref didn't agree. VAR didn't agree. The pundits who both played the game at the highest level didn't agree. It was borderline. I can understand people think he was a red or not quite but stonewall implies it couldn't be anything other than a red. That is clearly not the case.

Mark Clattenburg at the Daily Mail said it should have been a red.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Mark Clattenburg at the Daily Mail said it should have been a red.

I did say it was borderline. People going either way on it.

 

[Pochemon94]

Bang on. If Aurier has committed an identical offence everyone would say he’s reckless and it’s a straight red. Sounds actually tried to suggest that the view that Sterling isn’t that kind of player should influence the decision, which is pure bullshit. You should be judged on each incident on its own merits, and that was a dangerous tackle and hence a clear red

Thank you, Auba had a very similar tackle get overturned into a red card after VAR looked at it. Does Auba do these kind of tackles all the time? no it was a one off incident but that doesn't matter, it still happened. Sterling should've been sent off but hopefully this will mean next time he does it he gets the red. Much like Son, got the red that he shouldn't have gotten for the tackle on Gomes but because of that he was in the spotlight and low and behold a couple of weeks later had that stupid little kick at Rudiger and got sent off. I can almost guarentee that if the andre gomes tackle never happened he wouldn't of been sent off against chelsea