Personally I’d rather take three draws away to the Big 6 than 1 win and 5 losses. My tiny brain would give me more confidence by that, and reduce the points to those we compete with at the top of the table. We were equally good as Spurs, why throw it away in added time?
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[Albion] Tottenham Hotspur vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
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London Irish
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As the old saying goes, live on your feet rather than die on your knees
London Irish
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We should really be a cagey defensive-first team like West Ham 
Haha, no, but in added time away to Spurs, yes!We should really be a cagey defensive-first team like West Ham
Yes, this is where I’m at. I’ve read a hundred times that we were too cavalier and threw away a point - on the basis that had we wished to, we could have settled for the point and guaranteed it.
Well, that doesn’t quite tally to my recollection of a previous PL visit to Spurs, where Chris Hughton’s side put eleven men behind the ball for the whole game, and looked like grinding out a precious point, before funnily enough, conceding a sickening winner in the last minute of added time.
Wardy's twin
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We are a lot better team than we were under Hughton. I was at that game you mention, Erickson in 86 min? sickner but nowhere a bad as yesterday because we actually did deserve a point for our all round play rather than Duffy & Dunk blocks.
We had 30 seconds to see out and lost but I guess hindsight is always 100% right.
BluesRockDJ
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How's the olive/avocado produce going in the Algarve ?
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The Lino wouldn’t have looked out of place in Sunday league where you have oppo players running the line. Homer doesn’t do him justice
American Seagle
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With all the bias in the refereeing and implementation of FFP we are being forced to live on our knees.
Lifelong Supporter
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On reflection playing Spurs it is better to be in their half rather than ours. They are much better attacking than defending. Thus I have no problem with the attacking approach late on. Looking at it another way Spurs played it really well to create and score that goal.
I left at full time and did a brisk walk (ten minutes) to Northumberland Park station. I walked straight onto the platform and onto a train that went to Liverpool Street with only one stop. I wish the Amex were that easy.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Not read the thread and only just got round to watching the highlights so apologies if this has been covered before.
1st goal Spurs got lucky twice with the bounce of the ball. First with Gilmour blocking/tackling the spurs player but the ball bouncing kindly for him to carry on with his run and secondly with the ball coming back off the post.
2nd goal, Estupinian pauses momentarily to ask for offside before continuing to run back. He lost a yard by pausing, if he hadn't he would have been in position to put it behind for a corner.
So my takeaway is there wasn't a lot wrong with the performance(based off of the highlights I've seen...). The luck of the bounce and a momentary puase did for us. Frustrating but not the end of the world.
1st goal Spurs got lucky twice with the bounce of the ball. First with Gilmour blocking/tackling the spurs player but the ball bouncing kindly for him to carry on with his run and secondly with the ball coming back off the post.
2nd goal, Estupinian pauses momentarily to ask for offside before continuing to run back. He lost a yard by pausing, if he hadn't he would have been in position to put it behind for a corner.
So my takeaway is there wasn't a lot wrong with the performance(based off of the highlights I've seen...). The luck of the bounce and a momentary puase did for us. Frustrating but not the end of the world.
Uh_huh_him
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No complaints about the approach to the game.
We had enough chances to win it, as did they decent game.
Awful linesman.
We've had worse results.
We had enough chances to win it, as did they decent game.
Awful linesman.
We've had worse results.
Justice
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The lino looked like he was raising his flag under duress all very questionable. Especially the one from a deep free kick in our half out to Lamptey he wasn’t offside.
Uh_huh_him
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It was bizarre.
I'm terrible at paying attention to these things, but even I saw the three offsides not given by him in the first half (at least one of them lead to a corner).
And then all of a sudden he's seeing every marginal/debatable offside against us in the second half.
A more obvious example of bias you will not see.
Uh_huh_him
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Surely by this point of the game, he should have given up any hope of seeing a linesman's flag in our half.
Not for me…….Saturday was the reverse of two seasons ago when we scored an injury-time winner there. It’s what makes football what it is.
This. Irritated me, especially when it will all be checked by VAR anyway. First priority is defending the ball, not calling for offsides. Especialy as I think it was him that was playing Son onside!
hampshirebrightonboy
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I don't get all this 'game management' stuff.
If you are winning then obviously it's game maangement - shut up shop in the closing stages of the match.
If you are drawing and happy to take a point then the same.
However, if you are drawing and not happy with the point then you don't shut up shop - you go for the win. Obviously the manager and players were in this camp. It was just unfortunate they scored.