Post-match: PL MD3: Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United - Sept. 27, 2020

Match is on NBCSN in the US. COYS

thanks god, i'm sick of all the streaming bs, especially when it's early on for me...
at least this way i can record it

 

Peacock has all the games available for replay. Though if you join a game in progress, you can't go back to the start; you need to wait until the replay is up.

 

I'm about ready to cut the cord. Peacock could be the decider if it's decent. Haven't heard great things, though the complaints seem be about Xbox support/stuff like that which doesn't apply to old codgers like me.

Seem to remember this fixture early last season, a hundred years ago. Surprise loss and the beginning of the Poch unravelling.

 

We will need a bunch of goals, since we can't keep a clean sheet against the likes of Plovdiv and Shkendija.

 

Overall I think Peacock is fine. It’s $5 a month for what is effectively the Sports Gold package. If they offered all the games at their $10 tier it would be fantastic. Today for example only one match is being shown live.

 

Well that was a BS penalty!

 

Yeah that was ********ing bullshit. I don't want to hear any crap about how we should've scored more. We controlled the game for 90 minutes and it's the IFAB who have decided that players aren't allowed to jump like human beings anymore.

 

Well, you're gonna hear it, if you don't put shite teams away, you open the door for shite referees to screw you at the end.

Time and again we outplay teams but lack the ruthlessness to finish them off. Unfortunately we will have thrown away too many points by the time Bale gets into the team.

 

Use high technology to call the game like it's childrens' rec league.

 

I don't blame IFAB, they just put their foot down after Mile Riley and the PL went rogue with their laissez-faire use of VAR last season. Unfortunately, this ridiculous hand ball interpretation is the result.

 

Top level soccer is just not like that, never has been. It cannot be the expectation to build up multiple goal leads in every game.

Is every result for you a direct consequence of ONLY Spurs performance? No other factors? Because that's how it reads.

This handball will become the new desperation tactic, like bringing up the keeper for a late corner. Just get the ball in the box and kick it at the defender's arm.

It happened last week for Southampton too, except it made no difference to the result. Seems it is happening multiple games per week.

 

This happens every year when Newcastle come here. Their keeper makes a bunch of saves, their attack does nothing and somehow they come away with a result.

The only that's different is that this year, the refs helped them. The foul that led to the handball was not a foul and the handball is a result of the IFAB trying to eliminate an inherent grey area of the game.

 

There is a reason why we haven't won anything with this group of players and we saw that again today. Newcastle were terrible, their only shot on target was the penalty. Even Brighton walked them last week.

3 games in and we have only managed 4 points against the combined might of Everton, Southampton and Newcastle. I'll give Mourinho a pass today because the players blew this one with their lack of ruthlessness in front of goal.

 

Even Bruce thinks it was a BS penalty. The managers need to band together and collectively ask for better regulations.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...all-rule-despite-Newcastle-given-penalty.html

 

Bingo! Collectively as a team we need to average 2.25 plus goals per game for and 0.8 goals per game against. Anything outside of that and top four becomes incredibly hard to attain. As much as Dier got f*cked over, the fact we couldn't put 3 or more in the back of the net sealed our fate.

 

Can they change the regulation during the season? The IFAB sits periodically, but if this goes on football will be unwatchable. From the games I have seen this season, every time the ball goes into the box, the entire attacking team runs to the ref appealing for a penalty! It won't be long before players will start deliberately pinging the ball off defenders' arms to win pens.

The irony of it all was that in the first half, Gio hit the ball off a Newcastle player's hand in front of the box right in front of the ref and he waved play on, because it was not deliberate hand ball. However, had that taken place a yard back, it would have been reviewed by VAR and given as a penalty.

And why after the VAR had given hand ball, checked for offside, did he ask the ref to come to the screen and review the incident? Was he going to say no, it was not a pen after all that? What a shambolic system. Once again the PL has outdone itself in referee ineptitude, no wonder England had no refs at the last World Cup.

 

I blame our lack of finishing, the tactics were fine. Any of the other top sides would have had the game done and dusted at half-time. Even Brighton shredded these guys.

As for VAR, when I watch CL or other leagues, including MLS, they don't seem to have too many issues with it. For some reason, the quality of officiating is very poor in the PL. When referees like Peter Bankes, Stuart Atwell and Simon Hooper are on the PL referee list, along with refs like Mike Dean and Martin Atkinson, who should have been put out to pasture years ago, you know you have a problem.

 

PL is already diverging from IFAB on the hand ball law.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...s-to-be-more-lenient-on-handball-after-outcry