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Yup. Just heard this on Newsbeat on the journey home. 2000 Wigan fans were there I think.
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Yup. Just heard this on Newsbeat on the journey home. 2000 Wigan fans were there I think.
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It certainly didn't look like 2000 fans. They took the minimum allocations possible (low tier only of the SW corner stand) and it still looked half empty.
Still, that's a fantastic gesture from the Wigan players.
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Someone in the SpursCommunity matchday chat room said as Defoe bagged his fourth, "Defoe makes it 5-1 and all 30 Wigan fans have upped and left."
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So, so predictable.
why though - it happens nearly every week (or something similarly major) in the EPL
the prize goes to you for not reading the thread before posting hahaha
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I'm assuming he means they SHOULD be having a rant about it, because no one in the media has been able to shut up about Henry for the past week, so in theory a worse/easier to officiate just as bad decision also ending in a goal should get more traction, but as I was pointing out with Henry, its NOT the level of cheating, or the badness of the decision, its how important people deem it to be in general.
It made entirely no difference to the final result, so no one could give a monkeys, Spurs don't care as they won anyway, Wigan don't care, they got a goal, Fifa/the press don't care because they can't rile up the fans because the fans don't care.
Henry didn't cheat worse than anyone else, just the outcome of the goal changed.
You could argue if EVERY similar decision was equally covered with an equal level of anger by the fans even if the decision didn't prove important to that particular result then Fifa/FA might introduce video replay sooner. If there was outrage over every decision that resulted in a goal, no matter its importance, there would be a weekly uproar that would be hard to ignore. As it is, the importance of such bad decisions is no where near as frequent, so it doesn't seem like such a huge deal even though really, it is.
It made entirely no difference to the final result, so no one could give a monkeys, Spurs don't care as they won anyway, Wigan don't care, they got a goal, Fifa/the press don't care because they can't rile up the fans because the fans don't care.
Henry didn't cheat worse than anyone else, just the outcome of the goal changed.
You could argue if EVERY similar decision was equally covered with an equal level of anger by the fans even if the decision didn't prove important to that particular result then Fifa/FA might introduce video replay sooner. If there was outrage over every decision that resulted in a goal, no matter its importance, there would be a weekly uproar that would be hard to ignore. As it is, the importance of such bad decisions is no where near as frequent, so it doesn't seem like such a huge deal even though really, it is.
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News just in :
After Wigan announced that they will refund tickets for the Tottenham game for letting fans down, Tottenham have announced that they will do the same.
Anyone who has bought a ticket since 1961 should contact the Tottenham box office.
After Wigan announced that they will refund tickets for the Tottenham game for letting fans down, Tottenham have announced that they will do the same.
Anyone who has bought a ticket since 1961 should contact the Tottenham box office.