REACTION: Newcastle 2-2 Spurs - Worst Penalty Call Ever? | Romero Saves The (Awful) Day

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1:46Well, that's good. I actually did think we were going to win it at the end there. I had that sneaking suspicion that we were going to nick one.

2:01Didn't lose. That's good.

2:06I'm finding it hard to be constructive about this because I just want to whinge about corruption and terrible officiating.

2:23It's one of the worst penalty decisions I've ever seen. It's funny. My frustration that that happened has pretty much completely overshadowed how poor I thought Spurs were for the majority of that game. Like, I was getting ready to come on here and complain about just the lack of anything from Tottenham once again. And an incident like that, that penalty going against us, has instantly made me like hunker down into almost like a sort of like victim mentality thing us against the world type stuff and I just wonder I wonder a tiny bit if it could could have the similar effect on the team on the players

3:23I mean Christian Romero has gone on and equalised with a bicycle kick and it's just it's so beautifully fitting that it's Dan Byrne standing there like a lemon like watching the watching the ball just sort of float past him seemingly you know fucking get off me not quick enough to react to what was unfolding I mean who's expecting Christian Romero to score a bicycle kick at that point even attempt a bicycle kick

3:57but I was just my my head was absolutely on Mars absolutely on Mars without penalty decision I've seen some people on like like some people on Twitter are already saying to me like Spurs fans as well be like now nonsense it's penalty all day long he's holding on to him but not at all man And like, there's physical contact that happens inside the box. And we see every single time there is a penalty. Every single time there is a corner. Every single time there is, you know, a set piece around that area of the pitch. There is going to be some sort of tussling between players. You know, he's not looking at the ball stuff.

4:38I mean, come on, man. like

4:43it's one of those penalties that yeah sure right if you want to be like wow by letter of the law he's done this and that then if we were applying that rule as say you know stringently as we have done here there would be a penalty every single game of football for that exact offence it's just It's mad to me that that was given, even after a VIR review, that they gave that as a penalty. At very worst for Spurs, that was a 50-50. Burns got the fella in a headlock. He's holding on to him like, I don't know. Ridiculous, ridiculous, but I'm delighted. I don't like Dan Burns. I don't like him as a player.

5:38I don't know him as a person obviously but I just don't like him at all

5:47I don't have a lot of love for Newcastle really many of their players I was glad to see that we were leaving a few on Joe Linton today

5:59he's one of those players that's kind of made a rod for his own back he's been such a thug for years that it seems like most other teams kind of revel in playing against him and kind of kick lumps out of him. I feel like somebody else was doing it to him the other day. It might have even been Arsenal. I'm not sure.

6:24But either way, obviously I would have liked for us to win that, But, you know, I was kind of thinking before this game that we were going to be losing this 4-5-0, genuinely. I thought this had like 4-5-0 written all over it. That this could be the end of Frank, all that type of thing. And now, obviously, we've gotten a draw away at St. James' Park, which on paper is a good result. I think we can say on paper that is a good result. In reality, is it? I don't know. In reality, was it? I don't really think so. I think Spurs were abysmal for the majority of this game. They were abysmal. I don't think we registered a shot on target until Christian Romero's first goal, did we?

7:37Which is just shocking.

7:49From a few weeks, well, even from a couple of weeks ago, saying it feels like there isn't much of a plan there, other than to try and stop the opposition from scoring goals. It doesn't even feel like anything is that coherent anymore. I don't see what we were doing at Fulham that had any sort, that bared any sort of resemblance to what we were doing today. Two fairly poor attempts at winning a football match. Were we even trying to win a football match? It felt like for the majority of the game today, we would just we'd turn back into that side that we often tend to be which is waiting for the opposition to score a goal how many times when Spurs are in the death throes of a managerial cycle or whatever we often sit there and just say it looks like we're waiting to concede until we are sparked into life or try and do something for ourselves it's almost like we feel like the script is they score first and then we try and do whatever we've got to do I didn't get it I didn't get anything today again no no coherence no attacking patterns of play nothing um there was there was a moment when the Clippers during the rounds the 50 somethingth minute or so we got a break and then we ended up from Spurs being on the break the ball ended up being back with Vacario again, we literally lacked that spark to want to try and actually score a goal on the break just meandering around the pitch knocking it about lackadaisically like Bentancur is so unbelievably finished.

9:55I'm sorry, but he is so unbelievably finished. I cannot believe we play him as much as we do. I cannot believe Frank relies on him. Frank thinks that he is worthy of a place in this side. I see absolutely nothing there. fine he was a good player a few years ago whatever but in that time and you know then people say well you know he has had a couple of serious injuries yeah and that's that and that's bad luck for him but it doesn't mean that we have to keep playing him because he used to be a good player and the context is he's had injuries since because those injuries have meant that he isn't that good of a player anymore it's as simple as that and I feel like this this is kind of the point I was trying of touch on in the last stream um you know when i was sort of touching on the idea of like and i singled poro out but it can be applied to a number you know any number of them my point was like you know we've been saying for ages poro's a good player but he can't really defend but you know he's a good player and he just makes me question like why do we just kind of i don't i don't get why we just shrug our shoulders at that stuff.

11:14And Ben Sankar to me is another sort of example of that. Well, he was a good player, but he got injuries. So you need to understand why he's not as good as he used to be because he's had those injuries. Well, no, that makes total sense to me. I get it. But as I say, I know I'm repeating myself here, but the end product is that he's no longer fit for purpose.

11:42yeah I'm glad we've stopped the rot up there I'm obviously glad and I can tell you know you can tell and people can be sort of look I know I know people say don't ever don't know you don't ever excuse anyone wanting Tottenham to lose but you can sort of tell we're at the point already with this Frank Rain where people probably wouldn't say out loud I'm not I'm not projecting here I I don't feel this way. You know, I'm still, as I've said on here, I'm still sort of on the fence on Frank. I don't really feel, like gut feeling is it's not really working, but I'm not sat here rabidly saying, get him out now.

12:20He's got to go. But I do feel like we've kind of entered that place with him where some people are probably hoping that games like tonight, and like I say, it's the quiet thing that they wouldn't say out loud, but they're probably hoping we get walloped in games like tonight. to hurry him up out the door.

12:43That's not happened.

12:48I don't... Much as I'm, you know, wound up about the penalty call and all that type of stuff, I don't really... Honestly, I don't really think we deserve anything from tonight. I think we're probably quite lucky in some ways to be getting away with a point. but you know

13:10I'm not going to be complaining about it especially not after that penalty decision it's you know it's it's what it is I mean I don't know what happens with Thomas Frank I really don't because

13:30tonight it was awful it was awful and I feel kind of uncomfortable saying that because we have drawn a notoriously difficult ground and all that type of stuff but I don't if you if you get what I'm saying I don't feel like we've we've created a 2-2 scoreline it's been two speculative goals from Christian Romero from our centre-back to kind of you know what that unbelievable header and a bicycle kick man like that's not really sustainable is it and I think that's that's the point I'm sort of hovering towards I don't know what it is that Frank is establishing here um let alone being able to comment on whether or not what it is that he's doing is sustainable because he needs to actually build the thing first and it just feels like it's completely stuttering and there are injuries and there is this and that but you know it doesn't it doesn't bode well that I mean maybe there's maybe there's more to this maybe there's more that will come out and stuff but why has he dropped Mickey Van Der Ven why is Mickey Van Der Ven on the bench have they had a falling out you know I was sort of talking about on Twitter earlier you know the when the Spence van der Ven thing happened um shrugging Frank off after I can't remember which game it was Man United maybe when they sort of you know gave him the cold shoulder and we all sort of said well it's heat at the moment isn't it it's just passion from the players they're only human and it's just, you know, it's how they're going to react in this sort of situation.

15:20But I think in some ways, you know, probably didn't really consider quite how bad that was and quite how bad an indication that was of the feelings towards him, you know.

15:42the lack of respect for him from such an early point to do that type of thing so publicly to him is really quite alarming. Now if Mickey van der Ven has been left out tonight because of a culmination of that type of thing that will be cause for concern as well. We're talking about one of the best centre-backs operating in the Premier League, at least right now. Definitely one of Tottenham's best players.

16:17You want to see him playing games, right? It might just be that he's tired. It might just be that they're worried about his hammies or something like that. This can all just be speculation on my part. But he didn't cut a... Oh, beg your pardon. He didn't cut a particularly impressed figure on the sidelines, did he? Watching that all unfold. Neither did Xavi Simmonds. A player again who inexplicably seems to... I mean, maybe is there a Dutch-Danish thing? I thought the Dutch and the Danish got on quite well. Didn't they ally against the Swedes back in the day? I mean, maybe, maybe. Just maybe. People don't base all of their contemporary thinking on medieval skirmishes.

17:15Do they? Of course they do. The northern Europeans, they're all weird. They're all weirdos. They love all that shit. Teutonic knights and all that type of weird whatever stuff. Vikings, Odin, Odin's beard.

17:38Butta Malone says, we need to drop Benzanker permanently. Agreed. Mark Fulton says, Vacario never gone the right way, let alone saved a penalty at Spurs. No, he's awful with penalties. Oprah Rawls says, only one green shoot in that match. Completely unsustainable. that was sackable two shots on goal in a hundred minutes awful zeros and ones says think we were quite bad Newcastle bottled that more than anything else yeah I mean do you know what the other thing is though I feel like Newcastle aren't that good at all and yet they look miles better than us and it's kind of a team that's supposed to be supposed to be sort of level pegging with us isn't it I don't know

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20:34No because as I say Pip I don't think we really earned that Did we? We just sort of lucked into it Stumbled into it if you like Casual FPL says the result out there is not to be sniffed at, but my word, it's quite an effort to get through these games. And the penalty was an awful, awful decision. Ollie Whitefoot says, could that Romero goal be Frank's Kane versus Villa Poche a moment? I highly doubt it, my friend, but you know, you never know. Roy Potentius says, if we had a 12th man on the pitch to stand in all the empty space we kept passing to, we might be good. Yeah, Jono Blaine on Twitter, he drew this sort of crude little diagram of a stick man in the acres of space that were in the centre of this system.

21:31I mean, it's a stark parallel to what we saw with Nuno, isn't it? that um just those huge gaps in the center of the center of the pitch is it's really quite alarming um stelle morrison says best thumbnail ever jack thank you currently in cape town and watch the game for my friend's palatial scarface mansion lovely jubbly mate enjoy that enjoy the enjoy the braai and that's what they have out there it's not but i mean it is a barbecue but they call it the braai don't they um bit of braai nice big hope you got a nice big glass of red wine on the go as well mate um for anyone listening to this the thumbnail that he's talking about is i've done a stupid thing of me like pulling my hair out basically um because youtube and quirky and all that 40 years old mate 40 years old pathetic um Phil Mayo says I've never in my life until today seen a football manager yell at his own player to stop a counter-attack he has to go did that happen tell me more Phil tell me more um if you're still there if you listen to this I need more detail on that.

22:48Tenem Scali says, Utterly, utterly abysmal. Romero's genius will justify it all in Frank's eyes, but forget it. Good point, whatever way you slice it. Jonas Milner, simply ask yourself this, how much influence did Frank have over the outcome of that game? Let's face it, we drew in spite of another managerial shambles. hero ball has saved us not deliberate tactics bang on end of stream jonas milner has nailed it but that is it that's bang on mate um bang on um overalls also says um the ref is receiving a barrel of oil tomorrow morning feels that way a bit doesn't it um phil g 1882 says i cannot stress how much i'm fuming at that penalty mate head is on mark like it still is when i think about it winds me up so much and it also got pointed out to me remember that i think it's in the covid game wasn't it the dire handball handball air quotes for that penalty they got at White Hart Lane I think that one was just disgusting JKR Infinite says last good thing Levy did before leaving was convincing Romero to extend his contract he must have spiked beforehand then someone spiked Levy and he extended Ben Tankas yeah there's all sorts of chat isn't there like oh we only gave Benz and Kerry a new contract to keep Romero happy or that type of thing I mean I don't know but it's seeming like a very poor decision it's the fact as well when you look at the official announcement of it they just say on a long term deal so I mean can we have a bit of clarity how long is that long term deal please that would be good to know um jkr infinite also says bergval is a hairband away from being a baller so many flicks and passes it nearly came off he had that lovely flick for what would have been the opening goal of the game was agonizing um because yeah because he does he does seem technically quite sound as a player but he's also got a lot of uh he's got a lot of the dog in him doesn't he so yeah football documentaries so should we be starting Romero up top against Brentford give it a go mate let's give it a go We Demand Glitter who says Gabriel does that every game for Arsenal does that's the thing that's the point I'm making forget Arsenal forget Gabriel you will see an example of that Bentancur-Bern tussle and I guarantee you every single game of football you probably ever watch.

25:58Thus, there needs to be a penalty in every single game where that happens. It's, I don't know, it's mad. D 'Adear is too risky, says game's gone. Ref's been paid off. You know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to delve into that because that's probably, that's probably libelous.

26:23if the Premier League is monitoring me talking on here, I would suggest that they should probably have bigger fish to fry, better things to get on with. But equally, if they are, I don't want to say anything dodgy. Rob Stone says, don't worry, we'll be back to losing ways on Saturday. Brentford, isn't it? Where is it? Is it at home?

26:50Floaty says I thought we were pants today relying on our centre-backs to score again ref had a shocker but I think the pen was no no no no Floaty mate you know we're not having any penalty revisionism here on this on this on this podcast

27:13you know you've seen the departed You know when Jack Nicholson's having that, basically that racist exchange with the Chinese triads that he's doing the deals with. And he keeps pointing, saying, in this country, that's me. On this podcast, there will be no penalty revisionism.

27:42Sam Walsh says, football needs objective rules. not looking at the ball and holding his objective benton kurt is the idiot here he knows he's supposed to look i just said i just said we're not we're not look i'm look this is this is the one bit right in in in this pitiful lemming existence that we all live right we all have our own little like mound that we get to protect okay right and mine is my little bubble this podcast where I talk and I say stuff right and I say whatever and I don't need to be held accountable right I don't need to be held accountable for the fact that at the start of the season I said maybe Thomas Frank could be our Jurgen Klopp right that doesn't matter because I just get on here and I press a button and then I start going into a microphone into a camera whatever right and if I want to sort of sit here and say that wasn't a penalty and I'm really angry about it right don't come here and start talking about objectivity and rules and eye lines and all that sort of thing all right don't want to hear it I don't want I don't want to be confronted here that's what that's what out there is about out there in the world or could could we revise that or could we touch base on that a bit later on oh i i had some thoughts on that thing you know that's what life is isn't it other people having thoughts and stuff sometimes i just want to you know out my mouth penalty yeah I think that's not that unfair is it um Capote says two shots on target two goals not good we didn't have anything until the subs came on and the game plan went out the window.