**UEFA CL & Europa League Qualifying 25/26th Aug Spoilers**

Sycho said:
Anyone see Inzaghi's goal tonight? has to be one of the best volleys i've seen....watch it if you haven't. :p

Well done Spurs too, hope they do well in CL but a shame that Defoe will be out for 2 months apparently?(hope not he's in my team heh)
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Defoe tonight said that he might not have the op at all because he felt fine.
 
defoes op is apparently very simple, same one drogba had. if all goes smooth he wont be out for more than a month tops

great performance from spurs and a good group to be in now. hope gomes is ok but cudicini is a fine back up. palacios is a liability imo, way to sloppy with his passing, should only be used as a gate keeper so the sooner modric is back the better though i'd rather we played 4-5-1 with another holding midfielder next to huddlestone and gio or modric behind the striker, with our wingers i believe we would be far more effective with this formation. bale is on fire and lennon is almost back to tip top, just wish our strike force were on the same page as them at times
 
Great result, electric atmosphere before kick-off. Anyone else think it's weird that they advertise beer at European games but you can't actually buy any alcohol inside the ground? :confused:

Would love Spurs to draw Barcelona. I fancy going to an away game. :)
 
Every away allocation will be completely sold out by the time it gets passed season ticket allocation I'm guessing?
 
Sycho said:
Anyone see Inzaghi's goal tonight? has to be one of the best volleys i've seen....watch it if you haven't. :p
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I did, was watching that instead of CL football. It was a brilliant strike :eek: - great ball from Seedorf too. Here it is:

 
well done for keeping the English end up yiddies, I said it would be easy, and it duly was...

I guess Spurs are gonna have a toughie of a group; Lyon & Panathinaikos is about the best you can hope for from pots 1 & 2, but looking at the seeds Spurs are easily the best team in Pot 3, so there'll be plenty of teams in the higher pots wanting to avoid you. Quite pleased about the rule stopping teams from the same country being drawn together tbh :D

to that end, will someone be making a thread specially for the Champions League draw at 5 this evening?
 
I think you may need to consult a calendar but we aren't in the 20th century any longer. :p
 
So exactly one year ago, Eduardo got vilified and hung out to dry. Even UEFA joined in the ridiculous farce only to retract a punishment.

Last night Defoe handled the ball, scored, knew he handled it so spent the first few seconds after the ball went into the net checking the linesman, then celebrated. I'd like to see the same for him as well please. Though I gotta admit I'm not holding my breath. :rolleyes:

The same hypocritical nonsense appearing again.

Edit - Talking of which, we're playing Blackburn this weekend, I've no doubt that the WC final will have been forgotten and there'll be a lot of love for Sam Allerdyce's tactics, and that 'Arsenal' hate the physical side of the game.
 
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Greenlizard0 said:
Last night Defoe handled the ball, scored, knew he handled it so spent the first few seconds after the ball went into the net checking the linesman, then celebrated. I'd like to see the same for him as well please. Though I gotta admit I'm not holding my breath. :rolleyes:

The same hypocritical nonsense appearing again.
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Eduardo didn't accidently handle the ball but intentionally dived, didn't he? :confused:
 
It seemed to hit his upper arm. Certainly not the most blatant handball I've ever seen, though I do agree that the goal should have been disallowed.
 
I wouldn't say they were the same situations at all.

Besides the fact Spurs were already winning, did Defoe try and "cheat" the ref? I don't think he did, for a start I'd say the ball hit the upper part of his arm and he just carried on and scored a peach of a finish. If it had been spotted he wouldn't have been given a yellow card, where as Eduardo would have.

Diving not only cheats the ref, but it also vilifies the opposing player.
 
well I was gonna post in this thread that diving is worse than handball, but after remembering the whole Henry debacle I disagreed with myself lol!

Defoe did control the ball with his arm, he had it extended then retracted it as it hit him.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE57BP7YUng - about 1.55 in. I gotta say he shouldered it right into his path, watching that again it wasn't accidental. He pulls his arm out just before impact - he deliberately uses it to control the ball.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't blame either player for doing what they did, particularly as so many others have done it - and there's a heck of a lot of money at stake. My point was the different reactions (or in the case of last night, no reaction at all) about a tie deciding goal. In each case - both players knew they'd cheated, but one as said above, got hung out to dry.
 
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