Lol fair enough I’d be mad too

And you absolutely do get pleople trying to take advantage of players and blackmail them or just use them for clout. Remember the allegations against Neymar?

It’s a very difficult issue to resolve.

Gary O’Neil out! All that alleged ‘improvement’ and Wolves are still as shit as Man United.

He probably only misses Wolves

If they care about protecting the refs and the VAR, why did they say the Havertz and Guimaraes decisions were incorrect?

Very little in football is objective. If the ref gives a yellow for something and VAR thinks it’s midway between yellow and red, should the ref look at it?

What I don’t think most people understand is how shit VAR is in the stadium. You’re sitting there in the cold with no idea what’s going on for minutes on end. On Monday it completely ruined the flow of the game (and potentially the time they spent standing around in the cold cost Micky Van de Ven his hamstring). It’s OK at home when you have the commentators telling you what VAR is doing and you can see the replays. But in the stadium there’s just a screen that says “VAR check: penalty” and then nothing for 3 minutes.

He was dreadful today, created nothing, did nothing except the goals. It was maybe the worst I’ve seen him play. Then he pops up with 2 goals

It’s amazing how he can keep doing this - you watch him play and other than his goals, he looks crap. What a finisher

Is there a difference between playing good football and playing effective football? Is a team that creates a lot of chances and can barely finish any of them any better than a team that creates few chances but can normally finish them?

It’s kind of weird but Tottenham literally always overperform xG basically since it became a stat. Part of it was Kane, but Son is actually statistically a better finisher.

It’s an interesting counter for people who say that xG tells you who ‘should’ win a game, because this is more than a trend it’s almost an inevitability. In theory it’s no different to a team that has great creativity and crap finishing, but one will show up as a great team on xG and one won’t.

No surprise, any time Tottenham won the ball and tried to counter someone stuck a leg out