Aston Villa vs Tottenham Post-Match Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm too aggravated by the bullshit bottle out referee to give any thought to our failings.  The yellow card for Vertonghen seemed to give Spurs the signal that they could get away with murder and they did. God I hate them.

Me too, I absolutely loathe Spurs.

[JUAN PABLO]

theres going to be one shock in the next two games

a win against Soton Im thinking

4-1 to beat West Ham

You heard it here first

lets hope Rob


we cant do 8 defeats

[Malandro]

I'm going to ignore the dumb behaviour of benteke, crap officials, decent first half and concentrate on the bigger picture - fuck of Lerner, fuck off Lambert.

[ozzjim]

People blasting Benteke. Brilliant. If some scroat shoved his head in my face I would push it away. It is a natural reaction too. I would defy anyone not to in the situation.

And lets ignore the 2 2 footed lunges by Spurs players that were ignored and much more dangerous.

Lambert should be sacked. We should have seen it out. But today was very much down to a poor official not having any control of his clear love for a white shirt. Modern football is ruled by popularity and money. It is why I increasingly don't watch it. Today wound me up. Sanchez was probably too tired to not make the tackle and probably should not have been on the pitch by then in an ideal world. Gabby should have gone with the (fortunate to be on the pitch) Chadli for the 1st goal. They were very, very lucky, and very, very assisted to a win.

Lambert has to go, and we are in a bad way, but I don't hold Benteke or Sanchez responsible.

[paul_e]

I'm too aggravated by the bullshit bottle out referee to give any thought to our failings.  The yellow card for Vertonghen seemed to give Spurs the signal that they could get away with murder and they did. God I hate them.

I agree, bottling that decision led to everything that happened in the next 10-15minutes which saw Benteke off, Weimann booked and Chadli booked for what could easily have been another red card challenge.

Not sending Mason off for pushing his head into Benteke's face is that one that's got me, how can a push to the face  of someone who's shoving their head into your face lead to 1 player red carded and nothing the other way, fucking abysmal decision.  On top of that Soldado ran 30 yards and pushed Benteke in the chest 3 times and nothing was said about that either.

Final point how the fuck does one free kick that's going tamely into the keepers arms before a big deflection lead to you being given man of the match, what the fuck was that all about?

[jwarry]

of course what Benteke should have done is be a girl, feign a head butt and go down like a sack of 'spuds' and get that fucker sent off..... instead of being a man and slap the obnoxious twat.  Well thats todays football and everything I utterly dislike about it.....

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm too aggravated by the bullshit bottle out referee to give any thought to our failings.  The yellow card for Vertonghen seemed to give Spurs the signal that they could get away with murder and they did. God I hate them.

Me too, I absolutely loathe Spurs.

And their stupid wanky slow song. Behind the obvious few suspects Spurs are right up there in my "Bunch of Wankers" league.

[OCD]

I actually think sanchez is one of our best players by far but he likes to give the opposition the chance to score goals . lets out he stops doing it.

Mainly due to tiredness. Once he's fit enough to last 90+ minutes of Premier League football those mistakes won't happen.

so  a lambert mistake then?

Well it is obvious. I was pissed off on Monday because I thought he was tiring and the game needed a change. Their fitness people should know how long each player can last before there's a drop in their performance. It's pretty well known that Weimann's knackered by the 80th minute for example. Some managers don't like using substitutes and others are very smart with their subs. Put Richardson on for Sanchez once he starts tiring and nothing is lost.

[ozzjim]

of course what Benteke should have done is be a girl, feign a head butt and go down like a sack of 'spuds' and get that fucker sent off..... instead of being a man and slap the obnoxious twat.  Well thats todays football and everything I utterly dislike about it.....

Totally spot on. Cheats prosper.

[timeoutbigbar]

People blasting Benteke. Brilliant. If some scroat shoved his head in my face I would push it away. It is a natural reaction too. I would defy anyone not to in the situation.

And lets ignore the 2 2 footed lunges by Spurs players that were ignored and much more dangerous.

Lambert should be sacked. We should have seen it out. But today was very much down to a poor official not having any control of his clear love for a white shirt. Modern football is ruled by popularity and money. It is why I increasingly don't watch it. Today wound me up. Sanchez was probably too tired to not make the tackle and probably should not have been on the pitch by then in an ideal world. Gabby should have gone with the (fortunate to be on the pitch) Chadli for the 1st goal. They were very, very lucky, and very, very assisted to a win.

Lambert has to go, and we are in a bad way, but I don't hold Benteke or Sanchez responsible.

Irrelevant what is done to you, have the sense to realise that if you put your hands to someones face then chances are you're getting sent off.  We were looking reasonably comnfortable at that point.

[Steve kirk]

We had 5 straight league defeats in 1966/67 so 6 straight defeats must be even further back than 47 years ago and maybe the most consecutive league defeats in our history, and I am sorry to say number 7 is coming up at West Ham.

[ez]

theres going to be one shock in the next two games

a win against Soton Im thinking

4-1 to beat West Ham

You heard it here first

lets hope Rob


we cant do 8 defeats

Can't see us winning 4-1. We don't get 4 attempts on target and i doubt we did today either.
Just checked. We had one compared to spurs 7.

[ktvillan]

They've just shown the red card incident again and it's amazing that Mason can get away with shoving his head in Benteke's face and not even get a talking to.  If Benteke had gone down like a sack of spuds Mason would have gone instead.  And then Benteke is pushed at least 3 times by a Spurs player, again often deemed to be enough for a red.   Totally inept from the officials.

I thought that was incredible.

He clearly had his head in Benteke's face, and the second Benteke touched him ran straight to the ref.

What a c***, but we were suckered there.

The stupidest thing Benteke did was not to go to ground, either from the head in the face or the pushes.  Going to ground leads to a pavlovian response from officials, they see someone go down, they assume it's foul play, you don't go down, nothing happened.

[rob_bridge]

theres going to be one shock in the next two games

a win against Soton Im thinking

You heard it here first

lets hope Rob


we cant do 8 defeats

Can't see us winning 4-1. We don't get 4 attempts on target and i doubt we did today either.

Sorry 4-1 are the odds.

We're gonna nick it.

[PeterWithesShin]

We had 5 straight league defeats in 1966/67 so 6 straight defeats must be even further back than 47 years ago and maybe the most consecutive league defeats in our history, and I am sorry to say number 7 is coming up at West Ham.

We lost the last 4 of 66/67 and the first 2 of 67/68.

We lost 11 in a row in 62/63

23.03-A Fulham 0-1
29.03-A Blackpool 0-4
01.04-H Everton 0-2
06.04-A Burnley 1-3
09.04-H Manchester U 1-2
13.04-H Sheffield W 0-2
15.04-A Wolves 1-3
16.04-H Wolves 0-2
20.04-A Bolton 1-4
01.05-A Sheffield U 1-2
04.05-H Nottingham 0-2