foxes_rule1978 Posted 13 January 2016 Share Posted 13 January 2016 They've gone into meltdown on there. If only possession stats won you football games..... It is good, when people think possession wins games... while Ranieri has this amazing trick in which involves putting the ball into the net more times than the opposition. It is working you genius Ranieri... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 13 January 2016 Share Posted 13 January 2016 "@pokeefe1 Unpleasant team mate reminiscent of Allardyce's Bolton of a few years ago. We used to lose to them a lot too." reminiscent of allardyce and bolton lol lol lol lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalRobboFOX Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Most reasoned post I could find: I have to admit, over these two games, alongside West Brom these have been the toughest games this season, no surprise they are where they are, irrespective of our defending from that corner, they have been solid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suffolk fox Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 (edited) What a pleasant evening have to say I have never experienced such a bunch of deluded above their status fans as Spurs fans. Was in a pub last night before the game they were running a book on the score, scorers etc before the game. Comments such as Leicester are shit, none of their players would get in Spurs team etc, etc there luck will soon run out. Scores such As 3 1, 4 1, 5, 1 etc Kane hattrick. All this before the game had kicked off. I was so pleased when we did them it felt so good. What a great night. Edited 14 January 2016 by suffolk fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Liverpool levels of delusion and arrogance from them this season. The Spurs fans I know in real life are usually decent but everyone I come across at matches and online come across as total berks and I love seeing them lose. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LcFc_Smiv Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Post 573 on the spurs forum: "if proof were neededthat is it - there is no justice in football." Justice for what exactly? There's only been one team robbed at WHL this week and it's certainly not them! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Kane is the second coming of Jesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Kane is the second coming of Jesus The way they were going on about "how well" he took that penalty on the walk to the station on Sunday you'd have thought he'd done it facing an ISIS firing squad rather than Kasper. Decent pen but hardly worht a cocksucking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richmondfox Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 It's interesting how fans seem to think that having lots of possession means they are a great team and should win by default. So many times Spurs would pass the ball across the back, little passes to midfield, back to the defenders, left to right then a run down the wing and instead of crossing it in, turn back and start play again that might result in a long shot. As soon as we get the ball we aim to get an attack going. If our possession, corners, passes, shots are less than Spurs yet we win that would lead you to believe that we are doing something right in the limited time with the ball and Spurs are doing lots wrong with theirs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 It's interesting how fans seem to think that having lots of possession means they are a great team and should win by default. So many times Spurs would pass the ball across the back, little passes to midfield, back to the defenders, left to right then a run down the wing and instead of crossing it in, turn back and start play again that might result in a long shot. As soon as we get the ball we aim to get an attack going. If our possession, corners, passes, shots are less than Spurs yet we win that would lead you to believe that we are doing something right in the limited time with the ball and Spurs are doing lots wrong with theirs. It's because of reports like this Was Liverpool's 51-pass move against Bournemouth the best team goal ever scored? http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-51-pass-move-against-bournemouth-4834570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Amused by the Spurs fan who claims to be 'literally fuming'. I'd love to see that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 In any other sport fannying about for long periods before getting the job done is seen as the wrong way of doing it yet in football if you don't pass the ball nicely and needlessly then you're dog shit. We are taking the piss out of football right now and if we win the league it'll be the single biggest achievement of any club EVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 In any other sport fannying about for long periods before getting the job done is seen as the wrong way of doing it yet in football if you don't pass the ball nicely and needlessly then you're dog shit. We are taking the piss out of football right now and if we win the league it'll be the single biggest achievement of any club EVER. WE play like we're a basketball team quick breaks and everyone defending,what's wrong with that? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 I think it's fair to say that we've reached the part of the season now where our being in the top 4 will go from being charming and refreshing to damn right annoying. Expect the fans of big teams to quickly turn on us whilst everyone else is cheering us on to win it. It is funny listening to opponents' post-match interviews. Week after week it's "we dominated / we had more possession and therefore we deserved to win". One day this fascination for possession will end but until that day I'll continue to revel in the moaning and just smile at the league table. Question you have to ask yourself is "would I rather watch a Leicester team that has 30% possession but who look like scoring for that whole 30% or a Man Utd team that has 70% possession but passes it side to side for 70 minutes?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasmic123 Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 yeah that spurs forum is an enjoyable read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 "We didn't lose to a good Leicester side, we lost to a total anti-football, boring team who's total intention is to stop any form of football in a game..they stopped the game in any way they could. They are the new Stoke, 11 men behind the ball, launch it from the back and hope someone gets on the end of it. The constant time wasting and play acting is to make sure the other team don't get any rhythmn going.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 We are so boring we're the second top scorers and the top away scorers in the league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 "We didn't lose to a good Leicester side, we lost to a total anti-football, boring team who's total intention is to stop any form of football in a game..they stopped the game in any way they could. They are the new Stoke, 11 men behind the ball, launch it from the back and hope someone gets on the end of it. The constant time wasting and play acting is to make sure the other team don't get any rhythmn going.." I've noticed some of that though, maybe it's Ranieri's Italian tactics he speaks of. The ball boys with the towels at home for example (last night showed Fuchs doesn't even need the towel in wet conditions to throw the ball long) is a time wasting tactic introduced a few months ago that's not really needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevosevic Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 We are so boring we're the second top scorers and the top away scorers in the league. so many tools watch football, it's unbelievable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbtcity Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 "We didn't lose to a good Leicester side, we lost to a total anti-football, boring team who's total intention is to stop any form of football in a game..they stopped the game in any way they could. They are the new Stoke, 11 men behind the ball, launch it from the back and hope someone gets on the end of it. The constant time wasting and play acting is to make sure the other team don't get any rhythmn going.." In all fairness it's an approach most successful teams take, when under the cost they buy free kicks and run the clock down, basically do anything possible to disrupt the flow of the team on top, something we've probably learnt from last season when we were playing some great football yet not getting the results we felt we deserved, we just weren't street smart enough, no coincidence our game management has massively improved and so has our results, so I say carry on the spoiler tactics and let all these fans moan about how they "deserved" to beat us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xen Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 I think it's fair to say that we've reached the part of the season now where our being in the top 4 will go from being charming and refreshing to damn right annoying. Expect the fans of big teams to quickly turn on us whilst everyone else is cheering us on to win it. It is funny listening to opponents' post-match interviews. Week after week it's "we dominated / we had more possession and therefore we deserved to win". One day this fascination for possession will end but until that day I'll continue to revel in the moaning and just smile at the league table. Question you have to ask yourself is "would I rather watch a Leicester team that has 30% possession but who look like scoring for that whole 30% or a Man Utd team that has 70% possession but passes it side to side for 70 minutes?" To be fair, if they managed to pass the ball sideways for 70 minutes when they only have 63 minutes of possession, those 7 minutes would be quite a spectacle.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 To be fair, if they managed to pass the ball sideways for 70 minutes when they only have 63 minutes of possession, those 7 minutes would be quite a spectacle.. Apologies, I drank a lot last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 I've noticed some of that though, maybe it's Ranieri's Italian tactics he speaks of. The ball boys with the towels at home for example (last night showed Fuchs doesn't even need the towel in wet conditions to throw the ball long) is a time wasting tactic introduced a few months ago that's not really needed. I'm sure he'd still use a towel but away teams are unlikely to provide something that helps him produce a better throw. Other teams tend not to need them as they don't have anyone with his ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 WE play like we're a basketball team quick breaks and everyone defending,what's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing wrong with it, we're effective and we're changing football! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xen Posted 14 January 2016 Share Posted 14 January 2016 Apologies, I drank a lot last night. You're forgiven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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