Ok, so as I’m feeling all full of festive cheer
Let’s play a game
How long today before our wonderful PL officials decide Spurs cannot be allowed to leave Turf Moor with nothing and take responsibility for stepping up and “awarding” the big boys with their first penalty?

Will it be an early nerve settler, say 20 minutes, or will panic set in around 88 minutes,with the score poised at 1-1?

For a bonus point, are we looking at dodgy handball decision or Kane sticking his trailing leg back 5 yards to wrap around Ben Mee’s boot, or possibly the slightest bodily contact leaving deli alli “entitled” to go down

Usually a good ref today although he has had a few bad decisions his way of late.

Well, you certainly know how to get me in the mood for a game.

I get your point tho...

It definitely won't be on 88m. We'll be 5-1 up by then.

91st minute with the game at 0-0.

bobinho wrote:Well, you certainly know how to get me in the mood for a game.

I get your point tho...

bah humbug

I respect that our refs have a tough job but players are just too good now at convincing them and/or applying pressure on them for 90 minutes that it seems inevitable at some point it will come

Dyched wrote:It definitely won't be on 88m. We'll be 5-1 up by then.

None of our 5 will be pens
Ashley Barnes 5-trick

mdd2 wrote:Usually a good ref today although he has had a few bad decisions his way of late.

No doubting he is a good ref but there is also no doubting him giving in to "big" clubs either.

I'll say 56th min

Since Matt Taylor hit the post v Leicester, we’ve had just one penalty at home in the Premier League in 29 games and that was when we were 3-0 up against Sunderland at the end of last year.

No pens at all for us in the league since Everton away last April.

In fairness, one of the things that I like about Oliver as a ref is that he is one of the few who doesn't automatically favour the 'big team'. (Cue a horror show now from him).

It's Sod's law that we will have a man sent off, probably for a foul on Kane or Ali, who shouldn't be playing anyway.
Sorry but I think we're gonna get robbed

It’s a real shame that we seem forced to think this way
Against Arsenal, Mason had decided what he was going to do before the game kicked off

I'm still undecided if we are too honest or if we don't get in the box enough. We seemed to get a decent share in the Championship but possibly, arguably we were in the 'Big Boys' category.

It's written in the stars.
I'll go for quite early 22 minute.
It will get the boo boys going.
I have a feeling this is one dramatic match coming up.

115th minute

18:34

No penalty today as they won't even get in our box !!!!

I just hope that someone honestly, and lawfully clobbers Alli or Ali, whatever his name is.

Dodgy penalty for them around 20minutes - we battle for 90 minutes waiting for Vokesy to come on and bang in a well deserved equalizer in the 92nd minute.

Who had 6 mins?

cheating diving ****

Didn’t dive , stupid challenge

Stupid challenge.

Clearly a dive. If this cheating piece of filth doesn't get a three match ban then the game, I'm afraid, is corrupt.

Thank god you didn't offer to wager anything like money or eating one's own hat!

Wasn't a dive, he played the poor challenge and won it.
Happens to a Burnley player and it's a pen.

Guich is fishing surely??

I couldn't go as I'm working. So I watched it in the pub with a dozen or so Manyoo fans. Everyone, to a man, saw the dive take off before any contact was made.

Let it go

Ok

Shappie wrote:Guich is fishing surely??

No he isn’t. Alli was half way down before any contact was made. He dragged his left foot as he started past Long and then engineered the contact. Should have been yellow carded.

starting_11 wrote:Who had 6 mins?

Cheating dirty ****.

Alli is classless.

Kane is class.

Peppered Steak Pie wrote:Ok, so as I’m feeling all full of festive cheer
Let’s play a game
How long today before our wonderful PL officials decide Spurs cannot be allowed to leave Turf Moor with nothing and take responsibility for stepping up and “awarding” the big boys with their first penalty?

Will it be an early nerve settler, say 20 minutes, or will panic set in around 88 minutes,with the score poised at 1-1?

For a bonus point, are we looking at dodgy handball decision or Kane sticking his trailing leg back 5 yards to wrap around Ben Mee’s boot, or possibly the slightest bodily contact leaving deli alli “entitled” to go down

Good evening Mr Oliver

Yes but don't forget he was 'ENTITLED' to go down because he felt contact.

The game as we knew it or even want it isn't coming back until we descend to a lower level. The Premier League is an enigma and will keep rolling along favouring the fashionable teams because over all points of the compass outside the UK nobody is remotely interested in Burnley or Bournemouth or Swansea.

Foulthrow wrote:In fairness, one of the things that I like about Oliver as a ref is that he is one of the few who doesn't automatically favour the 'big team'. (Cue a horror show now from him).

FFS.

Peppered Steam Pie:
See my post #14.

Did I win by coming closest? I said 22nd minute.
I knew it would be early, I just failed to realise how early.
What have I won?

CombatClaret wrote:Wasn't a dive, he played the poor challenge and won it.
Happens to a Burnley player and it's a pen.

Exactly - he was touched, he threw himself over, that's a penalty all day long. If (for example) anyone had touched Barnes and Barnes had thrown himself over, no doubt Oliver would have given a penalty for that as well. Oh, hang on ...

BennyD wrote:No he isn’t. Alli was half way down before any contact was made. He dragged his left foot as he started past Long and then engineered the contact. Should have been yellow carded.

So If that same challenge was on Brady, you think he should have been booked?

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Shappie wrote:So If that same challenge was on Brady, you think he should have been booked?

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Yes absolutely

Or Barnes doing the same.
However Barnes should have had a pen which most are ignoring

>Wasn't a dive, he played the poor challenge and won it.

i.e. he dived.

Shappie wrote:So If that same challenge was on Brady, you think he should have been booked?

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Of course. If we are to stamp out blatant cheating there should be no exceptions. This disease is ruining football and I wish the FA had bigger bollocxs and the will to eradicate it whatever the cost.