Media bias

[CJ]

Two Spurs fan got arrested shortly after the flare was thrown, so they'll get a lifetime ban, and hopefully the authorities will react by reducing Spurs away allocation for future games (I did say hopefully). I can't understand how these things aren't spotted by searches when they enter the ground.

[Legion]

[dave.woodhall]

Two Spurs fan got arrested shortly after the flare was thrown, so they'll get a lifetime ban, and hopefully the authorities will react by reducing Spurs away allocation for future games (I did say hopefully). I can't understand how these things aren't spotted by searches when they enter the ground.

If you want to get something that small into a ground, you will.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Of course, nobody from the Villa section would ever throw anything directly at a linesman. The one hit when Harry was being targetted was just collateral damage.

[Somniloquism]

Two Spurs fan got arrested shortly after the flare was thrown, so they'll get a lifetime ban, and hopefully the authorities will react by reducing Spurs away allocation for future games (I did say hopefully). I can't understand how these things aren't spotted by searches when they enter the ground.

My brother managed to get a bottle that size into the ground in his inside pocket. We don't seem to do body pat downs anymore which I think is a good thing.

But you do get idiots like this. Although I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the chucker that he was throwing at the linesman, just trying to throw it on the pitch to get the smoke away from him.

[Ads]

So we shouldn't be outraged when two Spurs dickheads throw a smoke bomb at a linesman because a Villa fan once threw something at Redknapp?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

So we shouldn't be outraged when two Spurs dickheads throw a smoke bomb at a linesman because a Villa fan once threw something at Redknapp?

No, we should be equally outraged at both incidents.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Anybody else notice the advert which appears 12 seconds in ?

[SoccerHQ]

It was a poor thing to see and the linesman actually getting hit was awful but we've done this before (Walsall pre season) so I won't be getting on my high horse about it.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Talk shite , previewing the game this morning, said Villa had another chance to beat a big team today.

 Spuds a bigger team than Villa?

[Smirker]

Talk shite , previewing the game this morning, said Villa had another chance to beat a big team today.

 Spuds a bigger team than Villa?

They're better at the moment, but they're not bigger. And I think the context of 'big' would have been applied to the former.

[eastie]

Talk shite , previewing the game this morning, said Villa had another chance to beat a big team today.

 Spuds a bigger team than Villa?

They're better at the moment, but they're not bigger. And I think the context of 'big' would have been applied to the former.

It's the old argument of what makes a big club - crowds, stadium, history , finance, success, etc .
Personally I see Tottenham , everton and ourselves in a similar bracket , behind the likes of Man U, Liverpool and arsenal.

[Legion]

No-one is bigger or better than us.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Could'nt see any national news media using the same language if the roles were reversed.

[Mister E]

Spuds a bigger team than Villa?

Well, they just spent €100m roughly in the last window, so I suppose that qualifies them.