Europa League 2013/14 Thread

[Jimmy]

Great great!

[Chris2K]

Bang, bang.

Not that impressed with Vertonghen's reaction but Eriksen and Adebayor have been phenomenal.

[GoGo Yubari]

well YOLO I guess

[MDK]

Cracking game

[MDK]

So many back heels

[Liam]

Dave, Glasgow: Yes, the Dnipro guy had to go but Vertonghen should be ashamed at that play-acting. Absolutely shocking.

Jon, Birmingham: Headbutt - yes, red card - yes. Jan Vertonghen rolling around on the floor afterwards - pathetic.

Eduardo, London: Am I the only one who thought that was blatant cheating from Vertonghen? The Dnipro player barely moved!

Just throwing it out there - it'll get glossed over by the Spurs fans otherwise.

[GoGo Yubari]

I am trying to get a vine clip of the red card to fucking load so I can judge and it isn't, but I've heard plenty of Spurs fans calling it exactly that. Either way I don't really have any sympathy for Dnipro.

[Liam]

Hideous play-acting, stupid by the Dnipro player though.

[GoGo Yubari]

Yeah, no real arguments there. It was a big oversell to the headbutt.

[Thrilla]

Is the Dnipro lad Samoan or something?

[Liam]

It should have been a red card methinks, but then again, I'm sure that type of hustle/bustle/dark arts happens a lot - probably depends a lot on the reaction to it.

[Jimmy]

Definitely made the most of it, but it's a red card either way. Stupid from the Dnipro player. You just can't move your head towards players.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Oh man I went pretty crazy when we got it back to 2-2 but when the third went in I went totally ballistic.

To be honest, Vertonghen had been the victim of Dnipro play acting a few times with far less contact. So I'm not surprised he went down at the first opportunity. It WAS a red card and Vertonghen made sure of it. I wouldn't have been happy if Vertonghen had overreacted like that without prior Dnipro diving and playacting the whole game but the red card for that was wonderfully cathartic. Served them right really, Dnipro were far worse than that, especially in the first half.

[Colly]

Definitely made the most of it, but it's a red card either way. Stupid from the Dnipro player. You just can't move your head towards players.

Outlaw heading!

[Liam]

Oh man I went pretty crazy when we got it back to 2-2 but when the third went in I went totally ballistic.

To be honest, Vertonghen had been the victim of Dnipro play acting a few times with far less contact. So I'm not surprised he went down at the first opportunity. It WAS a red card and Vertonghen made sure of it. I wouldn't have been happy if Vertonghen had overreacted like that without prior Dnipro diving and playacting the whole game but the red card for that was wonderfully cathartic. Served them right really, Dnipro were far worse than that, especially in the first half.

So two wrongs do make a right? Good, I'm glad that has been resolved by this match.

[GoGo Yubari]

It doesn't make it "right." It just affects how much sympathy I, and presumably Hamster, have for the victim of it.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Oh man I went pretty crazy when we got it back to 2-2 but when the third went in I went totally ballistic.

To be honest, Vertonghen had been the victim of Dnipro play acting a few times with far less contact. So I'm not surprised he went down at the first opportunity. It WAS a red card and Vertonghen made sure of it. I wouldn't have been happy if Vertonghen had overreacted like that without prior Dnipro diving and playacting the whole game but the red card for that was wonderfully cathartic. Served them right really, Dnipro were far worse than that, especially in the first half.

So two wrongs do make a right? Good, I'm glad that has been resolved by this match.

It was many, many wrongs to be fair. Fouls given against Vertonghen that weren't even fouls whereas the one against him WAS a red card at least.

But of course two wrongs don't make a right. With my supporter head 1-1, Vertonghen gets headbutted and goes down, Dnipro spent 50 minutes diving and flopping around, then of course I'm calling for a red card. Most fans would be. Plenty of people do it in this thread and that involves actually moving away from the TV to type in "SEND HIM OFF!" or whatever.

It doesn't make it "right." It just affects how much sympathy I, and presumably Hamster, have for the victim of it.

...and indeed this. His response was appalling too.

And Sandro's beard was stonking.

[Colly]

Sandros beard was shit. Poor mans Lou Albano.

[GoGo Yubari]

It's a work in progress. Also it's pretty clearly a Dothraki beard :/

[Szumi]

I hope Spurs go far in the Europa League. The longer they're in, the more likely I think they are to drop points and fall off Liverpool in the Prem.