posted Dec 6, 2007

Any1 else apart from Defoe....he is not premiership material

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posted Dec 6, 2007

Were you watching the same game? It wasn't even a two footed tackle as Kenae was standing on his left foot as his momentum from kicking the ball took him through.

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posted Dec 6, 2007

It clearly wasn't intentional but he does catch the lad and his momentum does take his standing foot through. It was harsh but I've seen lesser challenges get a red card.

Really is it worse to go in malliciously and make no contact (most times avoiding a red card), or go in genuinely but end up catching the man (and end up with a red)?

Personally I think mallicious challenges whether they connect or not should be clamped down on. Keanes challenge should have been dealt with using a bit of common sense by the powers that be.

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posted Dec 6, 2007

Let's get one thing straight - it WAS a foul. Keane WAS late - not very late, but late is late. The touch he got on the ball was a touch on the ball that the opposition player played, NOT the original ball that Keane aimed to tackle - hence the follow-through being the foul.

Touching the ball first does not exonerate a player from being called foul, and in any case, the touch he did get was nearer Keane's knee than his foot.

Therefore, the question is, how bad was the foul? From the referees perspective, and without a slowed-down replay, what he saw is a mis-timed tackle which caught a player flush with all six studs. On first view, it also looked a bit of a jump, so you can;t really blame the ref for giving the red - it 'looked' a red.

I concede though that it perhaps wasn't as bad as it first appeared (but only because he seemed to go for the ball, not because it wasn;t a bone-threatening challenge - it WAS). So it should have been yellow.

But you can;t downgrade a card - only have it removed, and his tackle warranted a card at least.

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posted Dec 6, 2007

BRAND-0 - 100% correct!!

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posted Dec 6, 2007

We are going to miss Keane hugely. Its sad to say but, at the moment, he looks like the only player who is taking pride in wearing a Spurs shirt.

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posted Dec 6, 2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A29825698

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posted Dec 6, 2007

Absolutely ridiculious, he should never have been been booked never mind sent off. This just shows yet again how incompetent they are.

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posted Dec 8, 2007

keane will be a MASSIVE loss to spurs he is by far the best player at spurs his creativity and runs go unnoticed by a lot of "football fans" to say the least. is it all about goals wit strikers "no" they have to create also and that is where keane is a different class to the other strikers at the club and in the prem.

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posted Dec 10, 2007

ok, listen, he got the ball, the replays showd that it was NOT two footed or of the ground, and his momentum took him through the ball (which he WON) into the player. IT WASN'T A FOUL!

Referees make mistakes and theres nothing that anyone can do about it now anyway, but even if it had been a Derby player committing that 'foul', i would still stand by the truth, adn the truth is, it was a clean tackle, and by no stretch of the imagination was it a sending off. and if you are really using the FA's decisions to back you up, then it kind of demerits your argument, what the **** do the FA know about football? It's in the name! SWEET FA!!

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