Matty Cash

[VillaTim]

it was not a dangerous tackle . Mis-timed yes, dangerous no.

[Dave]

Irrespective of the “merits” of his tackle, a right sided attacking midfielder he is not. I trust he never has to audition for that particular role again.

Not sure. Definitely wasn't right today, but he was great against Burnley and him coming on in that position is what got us the win against Zrinjski.

Possibly a thing when we have more of the ball rather than the first half today.

[Monty]

Irrespective of the “merits” of his tackle, a right sided attacking midfielder he is not. I trust he never has to audition for that particular role again.

Not sure. Definitely wasn't right today, but he was great against Burnley and him coming on in that position is what got us the win against Zrinjski.

Possibly a thing when we have more of the ball rather than the first half today.

Yeah he's good when he's just making the runs, doing the byline stuff, pressing the ball high and so on, rather than having to get involved in the intricate midfield war for possession. He'll have better days.

On the challenge, well, all football challenges are somewhat dangerous as players can get injured from virtually anything. The question is, was it criminally reckless, so to speak? I don't think so. Just a desperate and rather shit attempt. Got the yellow it deserved.

[OCD]

Some of the post-match Spurs reaction to the tackle has been so over for the tackle for what it was. As said above, clear yellow card but no more than that.

I hope we line up more like we did in the second half in away games than how we did in the first half. I thought that was Bailey's best away game to date and I liked Tielemans off Watkins.

[Drummond]

I saw the most disgraceful and bizarre Twitter post from a Spurs fan after the match. He's since deleted his account.

Basically along the lines of being happy that Cash's great grandparents died in the Holocaust. I mean WTF?!

[Risso]

I saw the most disgraceful and bizarre Twitter post from a Spurs fan after the match. He's since deleted his account.

Basically along the lines of being happy that Cash's great grandparents died in the Holocaust. I mean WTF?!

I saw that, horrendous. Also loads about wishing him a career-ending injury. What on earth is up with some people?

[Drummond]

I saw the most disgraceful and bizarre Twitter post from a Spurs fan after the match. He's since deleted his account.

Basically along the lines of being happy that Cash's great grandparents died in the Holocaust. I mean WTF?!

I saw that, horrendous. Also loads about wishing him a career-ending injury. What on earth is up with some people?

I mean we all get emotional and can be a bit over the top sometimes, but that sort of thing just beggars belief.

[Clampy]

Some people are just dreadful human beings.

[pablo_picasso]

Some of the post-match Spurs reaction to the tackle has been so over for the tackle for what it was. As said above, clear yellow card but no more than that.

I hope we line up more like we did in the second half in away games than how we did in the first half. I thought that was Bailey's best away game to date and I liked Tielemans off Watkins.

The way they were talking yesterday & the way some Spurs idiots are talking today is that Cash deserved more than the yellow & it was a worse challenge because one, they have so many injuries, & two, Bentacur wasn't fully fit after coming back from an injury.

These are genuine reasons why Cash has had stupid abuse for a standard late tackle that happens in every game, every week, which deserved a yellow & hardly a mention after that.

My responses to that are fuck your injuries that you have had for all of three games. We have missed four or five all season & got on with it to be sitting in fourth.

And secondly, fuck your team selection. If Bentancur wasn't fit then he shouldn't have been on the field & the bloke who came on to replace him should have started.

They gambled with his selection & it backfired.

But they made the choice to play him while not being fully fit so can blame nobody but themselves...

And as someone mentioned above, they want to go & watch Romero constantly go through the ball to "leave one on" an opponent.

And listen for their cheers when he does that...

[chrisw1]

The Cash challenge was cynical and clumsy.  I'd be pissed off if one of our players was injured from that.  But it's the sort of challenge you see every single week and the Spurs fans reaction has been massively OTT. 

Part of the problem is they see the Doherty challenge from last season the same way we see the Mee tackle on Wes.  It wasn't as bad, but the still shot looks nasty.  So they've already marked his card.  If Mee kicked Ramsey out the game after he'd just come back I'd expect a similar meltdown on Villa Twitter I guess.

[Risso]

I was so annoyed with the grief Cash was getting after the Doherty tackle last season that I did this:

https://streamable.com/fgv3ig

You can see that he wins the ball from a standing position, and isn't remotely steaming in.  Spurs fans are a load of know-nothing fannies.

[paul_e]

Yeah I had to go back and watch that one again because Chris compared it to the Mee tackle and I thought I must've misremembered a fairly mundane tackle.

If they honestly see that as some sort of assault then I can only assume they play with netball rules most of the time.

[Dave]

Blimey, that's it?

Shame for Doherty that he got injured, but it would be a bit like us wetting our pants about Alexander Isak because he happened to be involved when Mings got injured.

[Risso]

Blimey, that's it?

Shame for Doherty that he got injured, but it would be a bit like us wetting our pants about Alexander Isak because he happened to be involved when Mings got injured.

I was just about to make the same point about Mings. He's out for the season, but the injury sustained doesn't mean that Isak is a dirty bastard who needs to have a nasty injury himself.

[chrisw1]

Yeah I had to go back and watch that one again because Chris compared it to the Mee tackle and I thought I must've misremembered a fairly mundane tackle.

If they honestly see that as some sort of assault then I can only assume they play with netball rules most of the time.

The still looks really bad and that's what they go from.  I agree it's nowhere near as bad as the Mee tackle, but the Spurs fans think it is.