Oh dear. Even Brighton are scoring!

Loris must have landed awkwardly

Looks in a lot of pain with shoulder/arm and going off

What on earth has happened to Lloris?

Wasn’t under any challenge. Looks to be just the way he landed

Some Spurs look like they don't want the ball.

Looked like he knew he had ballsed up and decided to stay down.....

Complete calamity keeper at times. God knows what the reaction would be on here if our keeper did that.

wilks_bfc wrote:Wasn’t under any challenge. Looks to be just the way he landed

On his arm, they say.

25 mins and Spurs have a shot.

Amazing error. Vertongen just got his second black eye of season. Spurs making Brighton look like Bayern

Hibsclaret wrote:Looked like he knew he had ballsed up and decided to stay down.....

Complete calamity keeper at times.

Yep - spot on.

2-0 and looks game over.

Hibsclaret wrote:Looked like he knew he had ballsed up and decided to stay down.....

Complete calamity keeper at times. God knows what the reaction would be on here if our keeper did that.

Yep. Id get up and carry on after snapping my arm.

Spurs in all sorts of trouble carry on like this and poch will be gone. Spurs players don’t look interested. Longest hangover ever champions league final was months ago...

box_of_frogs wrote:Yep - spot on.

Not at all. He needed morphine - so unless he's an addict, he was injured.

Something appears to be deeply wrong at Spurs

They look shocking at the moment

Spurs in for Pope, Tarks and Mee in January.

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wilks_bfc wrote:Something appears to be deeply wrong at Spurs

They look shocking at the moment

And that keeper is terrible so far.

Vino blanco wrote:Spurs in for Pope, Tarks and Mee in January.

100 mil for staying up - so would need to be at least that.

spurs will win this, dont want them to, but they will.

Vino blanco wrote:Spurs in for Pope, Tarks and Mee in January.

30 mill for pope
50 mill for tarks
20 mill for mee

And because they got tripps so cheap add 5 mill to each to compensate our own stupidity putting a cheap clause in tripps contract......

Think we can sign someone like Leon Cort again

Wile E Coyote wrote:spurs will win this, dont want them to, but they will.

Better for Burnley if Spurs win. So want them to win. I can't see them even getting a draw though at the moment.

Brighton look a better team than Burnley
Mooy looks a far better signing than Drinkwater

Still we are playing a team completely out of sorts like Spurs later today so hopefully we can put on as good a showing as Brighton have this first half and make Everton look like rubbish

Er did they beat us

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Yep. Id get up and carry on after snapping my arm.

As serious as it maybe one of the England Rugby players got hit by a 20 stone bloke to the neck and carried on for the rest of the game this morning. Tom Heaton got injured and made sure he protected the ball when he was injured for us.

You can do more to protect the ball if you have a pair yourself....

FactualFrank wrote:100 mil for staying up - so would need to be at least that.

So you would take 100 mill to go down ?

Spurs keeper looks like pope or is that just me

Dyche to spurs thread, anyone?!

Hibsclaret wrote:As serious as it maybe one of the England Rugby players got hit by a 20 stone bloke to the neck and carried on for the rest of the game this morning. Tom Heaton got injured and made sure he protected the ball when he was injured for us.

You can do more to protect the ball if you have a pair yourself....

Fernando Alonso crashes at 200 mph and walks away whilst people are killed on the roads at 20mph.

What’s your point?

CFS wrote:Spurs keeper looks like pope or is that just me

Don't see it.

Winks on.

I think he's a bit annoyed at Cork not carrying on last week and taking it out on lloris

Brighton deserve a 3rd

Dyched wrote:Fernando Alonso crashes at 200 mph and walks away whilst people are killed on the roads at 20mph.

What’s your point?

The point is he probably got injured when he hit the floor when he had already wimped out of dealing with the ball. Very poor from a professional sportsman. Not sure what your point is?

I’m not saying he wasnt injured. He wimped out and got injured.

Brighton a mid table team like us, but Spurs have certainly made them look better than they are.

Clearly some individuals just cannot be arsed for Spurs.

Devils_Advocate wrote:I think he's a bit annoyed at Cork not carrying on last week and taking it out on lloris

???

FactualFrank wrote:Brighton deserve a 3rd

And there we have it.

Well deserved. Dominated.

Spurs fluffed 2 good chances.

They could have been right back in this, instead nothing.

tarkys_ears wrote:Spurs fluffed 2 good chances.

They could have been right back in this, instead nothing.

They currently deserve nothing from this game.

FactualFrank wrote:They currently deserve nothing from this game.

Sherlock in the house

Times Sport this morning: Tottenham Hotspur put their pitch away for the weekend to accommodate NFL’s Chicago Bears-Oakland Raiders game

is it fair to ask when will they get their pitch out again?

10 away PL games without a win for Spurs,that's shocking for a supposedly established top 4 team,is Poch even bothered or is he expecting RM to come calling,not on these showings they won't.

Paul Waine wrote:Times Sport this morning: Tottenham Hotspur put their pitch away for the weekend to accommodate NFL’s Chicago Bears-Oakland Raiders game

is it fair to ask when will they get their pitch out again?

and The Times article:

For the next two weeks, the pitch on which Tottenham Hotspur have been playing their home matches has been split vertically into three sections, wheeled out of the stadium and left in a storage garage underneath the South Stand. There might have been times on Tuesday evening, during the 7-2 home defeat by Bayern Munich, when Tottenham’s defenders wished the ground would split open and swallow them, but this weekend the earth will move for more practical purposes as the new stadium prepares to host its first NFL game tomorrow.

Unlikely as it may seem at a £1 billion venue built for a Premier League club, the football pitch is the temporary, retractable playing surface at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium resting on rails 1.7 metres above ground level. The permanent installation beneath, sitting at the base of the stadium bowl, is the synthetic surface that will play host to the Chicago Bears and the Oakland Raiders in front of a sellout crowd tomorrow, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers a week later. A ten-year agreement is in place to stage at least two NFL matches a year and there are hopes that, at some point in the future, a new London-based franchise could cohabit with Spurs at the 61,000 capacity stadium.

The NFL has been staging games in London for 12 years now — further matches will be held at Wembley on October 27 and November 3 — and Tottenham’s commitment to build their much admired new stadium around an NFL pitch indicates a confidence that the UK’s blossoming relationship with American football is merely in its early stages.

The artificial pitch will allow the club to stage other events, pop concerts or other sporting occasions, without damaging Tottenham’s playing surface, but linking with the NFL was the clear vision of Daniel Levy, the club’s chairman. The stadium has its own NFL locker rooms, big enough to cater for the teams’ 53-man rosters, and Spurs have joined forces in launching an NFL Academy in north London.
There will be much talk over the next few weeks about the possibility of an NFL franchise being set up in London by 2025. “If it ends up with a franchise here [in the UK], we will have a body of work for an owner to make a decision where they would like to play,” Alistair Kirkwood, the managing director of NFL UK, said.

For the time being the football pitch, weighing more than 9,000 tonnes, has been split into three parts, each comprising 33 metal trays welded together, and now sits in a vast underground storage space complete with LED lighting, ventilation and irrigation systems. Before Tottenham’s Premier League game at home to Watford two weeks today, the whole thing will be rolled back into place and pieced back together on engineering systems designed by SCX, the Sheffield-based firm responsible for the retractable roofs over Centre Court and No 1 court at Wimbledon.

Retractable grass pitches have been used before — the home of the Arizona Cardinals was an inspiration for Tottenham’s plans — but this will be the first time a full grass pitch has been divided and then reassembled, a process that takes about one hour. “That will be a squeaky bum moment the first time it’s done,” Nick Cooper, the stadium’s head of moving structures, said yesterday. “The pitch can expand by about 35mm at times, but we’ve done a lot of testing and we’re confident it will all fit neatly back together.”

There is more to transforming the stadium than merely changing the pitch. The 1.7 metre difference in height means that the areas surrounding the playing surface must also be adjusted, through hydraulic systems that can raise and lower ramps around the pitch. Beyond the touchlines, there are flaps six metres wide that open and close to adjust the height of a sideline area mounted on a huge steel structure.

By constructing the first stadium to NFL specifications anywhere outside the US, Spurs are clearly keen to put themselves at the head of the queue if the NFL comes looking for a permanent European base.

EDIT: some words ended up copy/paste in wrong order.

FactualFrank wrote:Not at all. He needed morphine - so unless he's an addict, he was injured.

Do you know he needed morphine, or are you relying on the reports put out by the club / sky sports? Only someone with access to his medical records can accurately state if, or if not, he had morphine.

Hibsclaret wrote:The point is he probably got injured when he hit the floor when he had already wimped out of dealing with the ball. Very poor from a professional sportsman. Not sure what your point is?

I’m not saying he wasnt injured. He wimped out and got injured.

That is probably the biggest load of rubbish you've spouted on here and that takes some doing

He made a poor decision with the ball, that isn't wimping out and he had no protection from the attackers coming towards him.
Another day he would've punched it away or tipped it over the bar, just today he was caught in two minds.

The injury happened because he was moving backwards when he landed and his arm just folded, either broken or dislocated, hard to tell from the clips.