[Albion] Tottenham Hotspur vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[GT49er]

I know I'm biased, but If I'd been the ref I'd have given us a free kick, Kane causing an injury threatening fall for Lallana by deliberately backing into him.

Yes, and even some of the TV pundits agree with that - and a large proportion (about 80% I think) of SSN viewers on ref watch did too.

 

[vagabond]

There really are some miserable ******** on here.

I listened to the game on 5 Live and even Clinton "Palace" Morrison was banging on about us being the better team and being very unlucky.

We were playing Spurs in their £1bn stadium who have a squad so rammed full of forwards they can bring £600k a week Gareth Bale on from the bench.

Yes, it's disappointing to outplay a team with those kind of resources and come away with nothing. No, it doesn't mean the end of the World.

So many snowflakes......

Exactly.

I called it before the game, I knew there’d be babies here crying if we lost to Spurs.

Utterly predictable.

 

[Swansman]

You are not telling me anything I don't know.

Look back at my comments going back 2/3 years where I point out the fact that Brighton was operating with a bottom 3 budget for the first two seasons in the PL. I also argued that the club would need to spend up to £100m a year on players to make progress. You have to credit the ownership with getting Lamptey on the cheap last year and Lallana and Wellback out of contract - but the total net transfer spend in the summer was zero. Bloom has opened the purse strings somewhat over the past couple of years - going from a bottom 3 to a bottom 6 budget - and had to in order to justify hiring Potter. But as someone said yesterday - this team is not set up for a relegation dog-fight - and they have to get out of that position sooner rather than later.

Actually he didnt have to do anything in order to "justify" hiring Potter, as he owns the club and can do pretty much whatever the **** he wants with it with no need of "justifying" the decisions.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Dermot Gallagher on SSN says the penalty call on Kane was right, the decision to give our goal was wrong and the 'foul' from Doherty on Trossard was 'interesting' and accuses him of 'going down theatrically'. 'Big club' favouring, clueless pricks the lot of them.

 

[Stat Brother]

There really are some miserable ******** on here.

I listened to the game on 5 Live and even Clinton "Palace" Morrison was banging on about us being the better team and being very unlucky.

We were playing Spurs in their £1bn stadium who have a squad so rammed full of forwards they can bring £600k a week Gareth Bale on from the bench.

Yes, it's disappointing to outplay a team with those kind of resources and come away with nothing. No, it doesn't mean the end of the World.

So many snowflakes......

It just would be nice to hear something else!

 

[LlcoolJ]

Dermot Gallagher on SSN says the penalty call on Kane was right, the decision to give our goal was wrong and the 'foul' from Doherty on Trossard was 'interesting' and accuses him of 'going down theatrically'. 'Big club' favouring, clueless pricks the lot of them.

Gallagher is a knob who never gets anything right. I look forward to Mike Dean retiring and being the "referee pundit". Even he couldn't be worse.

 

[LlcoolJ]

It just would be nice to hear something else!

Of course. But no need for the utter nonsense on this thread. Such a bunch of crying babies. It's unnecessary.

 

[Wellesley]

Actually he didnt have to do anything in order to "justify" hiring Potter, as he owns the club and can do pretty much whatever the **** he wants with it with no need of "justifying" the decisions.

I've got no problem with Tony Bloom, in fact like 99.9% of Brighton fans I bloody love him and the club do pretty much 'justify' their decisions and keep us the fans informed. You seem to think however, that owning a football club is like owning any other business but it is not. We've had owners before that did whatever the **** they wanted, which nearly ended up with us having no club at all and our present owner, unlike you, realises this. Like I've said before, you have no emotional connection to the club and no understanding of the love we feel for it, yet you like to post such patronising shite as though you are above everybody else. You are just a sad Potter fanboy.

 

[essbee1]

Dermot Gallagher on SSN says the penalty call on Kane was right, the decision to give our goal was wrong and the 'foul' from Doherty on Trossard was 'interesting' and accuses him of 'going down theatrically'. 'Big club' favouring, clueless pricks the lot of them.

Referees really are the blisters on the bum of life. Scum.

 

[GT49er]

Dermot Gallagher on SSN says the penalty call on Kane was right, the decision to give our goal was wrong and the 'foul' from Doherty on Trossard was 'interesting' and accuses him of 'going down theatrically'. 'Big club' favouring, clueless pricks the lot of them.

Sadly, over the past weeks I've come to the conclusion that Dermot Gallagher is even worse than some of the referees out there - some of his justifications of awful decisions are even more ludicrous than the actual decisions!

 

[Seasider78]

Sadly, over the past weeks I've come to the conclusion that Dermot Gallagher is even worse than some of the referees out there - some of his justifications of awful decisions are even more ludicrous than the actual decisions!

Gallagher is an absolute clown I have seen him once before on that pathetic ref watch feature where they have shown him two identical incidents from the weekend with different decisions given and he still supports the referees.

Right little old boys network with referees a big part of why VAR is such a failure as it’s all about not showing your mates up when they **** up.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but yes all of this.

Concerned Lamptey injured.


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I knew you'd come around to my way of thinking one day my friend! I even thought Gross did ok yesterday!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I knew you'd come around to my way of thinking one day my friend! I even thought Gross did ok yesterday!

Steady [emoji2].
Seriously, even though we disagree the discussions are always reasonable.
Stay safe [emoji2]


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[Jolly Red Giant]

This argument is trotted out a lot. We aren't the only club that have improved their squads in the past 18 months.

True - in the PL you have to run just to stand still

/Cardiff/Watford/Bournemouth have gone and been replaced by Villa/Sheff Utd/Leeds /West Brom.
I would argue that is a tougher prospect than 18 months ago.

I wouldn't agree - this season Potter has at least 10 players of better quality available to him than were in the squad 18 months ago. Of the 4 teams you mention - Villa had nothing when they were promoted - they effectively had to buy a new squad - WBA are in the same boat but haven't spent the same amount of money. Sheff Utd had a decent squad when they were promoted but apart from Brewster really haven't done anything to improve the squad except fill gaps (Ramsdale for Henderson). Oliver Norwood is still a key part of their team. Leeds have spent money and I suspect will be hit and miss this season, scoring but also conceding a lot of goals. They will probably win enough games to stay up comfortably but could hit a bad run of form. I think Leeds will struggle next season.

are the only squad I can think of which have gone backwards. Many others have strengthened much more than us.

No reason at all that we should have progressed any further than we have.

The problem with 'progressing farther' is that this team and the style of play that Potter has them playing needs to consistently get results - again, as someone said yesterday, the team is not set up for a relegation dog-fight.

 

[trueblue]

Quite how you can say that with no doubt is beyond me from one camera angle miles away. I’ve seen it only a couple of times but it was hugely tight / inconclusive. You’ve spoke about where Kane’s standing from the start so seems you didn’t know the rule, got called out on it and are now ignoring the irrelevance of your comment by simply writing the above. His feet placing is totally irrelevant to where the foul was. I’d say if it’s for a foul on the neck it’s inside, of it’s for the initial contact on the body it’s outside. Fact there wasn’t really a foul there makes it quite hard to debate.

Yeh I know nothing about football and the laws. Just been playing and watching it for forty-plus years. Kane’s feet are in the box technically, he’s in the box technically, and the 18 yard camera shows the contact is also effectively ‘on the line’. It’s an annoying penalty that wouldn’t have been given without VAR for sure, but it’s a penalty. Still, I bow to your vast wisdom.

 

[Palacefinder General]

I like Mourinho but he’s not the man for a top job anymore and his team seem to be picking up results by default more than anything, although in this nuts season they’ll probably fluke the title and he’ll continue being championed. What’s grating is the media talk around all that post our game, banging on about them being contenders while largely glossing over our dominance over 90 minutes (to his credit, something Mourinho didn’t do in his post-match interview).

 

[kevo]

Glad it wasn’t just me. After he first halves VAR shambles too - yes ours was lucky (deserved twice tho) but we need some VAR rules - how far do you take play back etc. ***** all of them.

If they have VAR to determine things such as offside, surely it's about time games were timed accurately? This is easily achievable technologically. We were denied a point against Man Utd as a result of this. March scored with only 30 seconds remaining, yet the ref played on and on.

 

[Murray 17]

It’s a big worry when each season the club attitude is hoping there are three worse teams than us around the bottom ,eventually we will get caught out .


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There are definitely 2 worse than us this season. The problem is that 3rd place.

I think Burnley will pull clear, as they did last season, and Sheffield United can't have dropped that much in a short time.

Villa look reasonable, as do Leeds. Palace, dull as they are, know how to grind out results.

So 18th position worries me!

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[Sheebo]

Yeh I know nothing about football and the laws. Just been playing and watching it for forty-plus years. Kane’s feet are in the box technically, he’s in the box technically, and the 18 yard camera shows the contact is also effectively ‘on the line’. It’s an annoying penalty that wouldn’t have been given without VAR for sure, but it’s a penalty. Still, I bow to your vast wisdom.

And you just proved you don’t know the rules as his feet are nothing to do with it as I’ve been trying to tell you all along - I also wouldn’t say it shows the contact is one the line’ that’s the point - but you’re not seeming to get the point, just being a smarmy dick so leaving this there

 

[trueblue]

And you just proved you don’t know the rules as his feet are nothing to do with it as I’ve been trying to tell you all along - I also wouldn’t say it shows the contact is one the line’ that’s the point - but you’re not seeming to get the point, just being a smarmy dick so leaving this there

Seems you’re the expert on smarmy dicks.