FA Cup third round and onward 2016

It's not. Spurs played really well. But eh

A great game. I wonder how Spuds would be doing if Danny Rose hadn't got injured. A rare defeat for Poch tactically but still a great performance. Gutted to lose when you've shown so much quality.

Danny Rose is absolutely crucial to the tactical balance of the team. If he'd been fit the initial XI would have been completely different and moreover we wouldn't have been treated to the absurd spectacle of of two right backs on the pitch at once.

It seems fairly obvious that in a game like that you play as close to you first choice defence as possible. I see the tactical rationale behind playing Trippier but otherwise it made no sense.

Essentially Poch needed Wanyama in the team and couldn't bring himself to drop one of Son or Dier. Both of whom have been excellent of late.

we wouldn't have been treated to the absurd spectacle of two right backs on the pitch at once

try being a Utd fan lol

It's a very bad result, and I agree that Walker and Davies (in absence of Rose) should have started, and Son on bench.

The odd thing though is that we didn't really lose because of these bad tactical decisions. When Hazard scored on 75, Walker had replaced Son, Trippier was at left-back (and probably not doing much wrong) and we had been dominating the game for 75 minutes, having scored two sublime goals. At 2-2 we were camped in their half for long spells.

So ultimately the result seems to come down to the late turn of fortunes. Which has something to do with CFC's strength in depth - ie who they could bring off the bench, vs the total lack of game-changers on ours.

* = we had been dominating the game for 30 minutes, from 45 to 75.

btw I also felt Lloris was unusually poor, even though I'm not certain he was specifically much at fault for the goals - maybe the 1st and 3rd.

I only saw the second half and from my perspective Spurs were all over Chelsea (....until Chelsea scored twice)

Yes that is accurate!

excellent day today
cya later sparky

3-1 at home to the Posh. despicable cowards all. Bruce out

Leeds going out to Newport, Saiz sent off for spitting - I think.

RED CARD - Samuel Saiz

Newport 2-1 Leeds

I mean, what on earth is happening here.

Robbie Willmott, who has been immense for Newport, is showing referee Mike Dean his shirt. It would appear he is pointing to blood.

Dean consults his assistant, turns and gets the red out for Leeds sub Samuel Saiz.

Truly odd.

even that bellend of a ref can't spoil the Cup Magic today.

It seems Dirty Leeds fans have a historical hatred of Dean, but last year he made a fool out of himself by awarding them a pen against Barsnley, for a clearly a yard outside the box incident.

West Ham medical staff are currently doing a fingertip pitch search for Josh Cullen’s teeth.

Stream for spurs match is from a fans mobile in the stands

I can dig it

I can remember a similar, but more amusing occasion where play was stopped until Iffy Onuora's missing contact lens was found.

xp

those submarine streams from the stands can be a mixed bag, but most of the streaming sites are shite these days.

Cullen's teeth a good metaphor for Moysey's toothless Hammers performance. I feel for Shrewsbury.

r/s

r/streams fyi

When we play any of the big dogs there is usually an acestream link (which gives you a hd stream thru vlc player if you don't know it). But the rest of the time I use the Reddit stream page, which has been full of dud links this season.

when I said Submarine, I think meant the Periscope app.

lol Arsenal.

was just going to ask if a brief Arselol would be appropriate

Player manager, Kevin Nolan :O

No, hold on, that's Notts County, it's not that's funny.

Forest don't even have a manager.

lol at four minutes of added time, absolute undisguised trolling

Fam out

look forward to the fam greeting this with calm equanimity

also really looking forward to a public debate about video match-ruining technology

Not much midfeld creativity going on here

#THFC: Vorm, Trippier, Foyth, Vertonghen, Walker-Peters, Dier, Wanyama, Sissoko, Dembele, Llorente, Kane (C). #COYS pic.twitter.com/tsjaXEWorV

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) January 27, 2018

Bench just announced and Eriksen must have recovered from illness but not sure if 100%

#THFC substitutes: Gazzaniga, Sanchez, Davies, Oakley-Boothe, Georgiou, Dele, Eriksen, Son. #COYS

^ maybe not as they've since deleted that tweet

Well there's eight names there lol

Eriksen just took a turn for the worse

#THFC substitutes: Gazzaniga, Sanchez, Davies, Georgiou, Oakley-Boothe, Dele, Son. #COYS pic.twitter.com/vWVSBwqJtC

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) January 27, 2018

Looking forward to Moyes' post-match interview tho

Boring team in execution and lack of youth/squad involvement

just seen who you're playing

almost fpd groovypanda for even bumping the thread ffs

Why do cunts who write poems to be read on BBC montages never think that the length of the sentences matter listen cunts scansion is not a long green onion

lol you should be losing

(yeah i'm watching this now ffs)

ah frank nouble, of course. one of our more hapless players of recent years

Lol Tottenham

I think poch should go and I'll just support madrid

Dier is a shit centre half

your child left-back looks like the only one who wants to score

Who could possibly have seen that coming?

ahaha