Zakora's Dive

Dublin Spur

Would anyone rather he hadn't won us the penno and the game ended 1-1 ?

Andrew 83

No. I think the whole thing has been overblown for no real reason. There's blatant dives in either the Premiership or Champs League pretty much every week, ones just as bad as this, and people don't go so overboard. I'd rather it didn't happen but I don't feel disgusted to be a Spurs fan or anything.

therecklessone

I'm not gonna repeat what I've said elsewhere, but I'll say this: its not the Tottenham way.

Jol needs a word.

SuprSi

I agree - I didn't like the way the win was achieved. Initially I thought it was a peno but in the replays realised it wasn't. I don't like it, but having said that it's not the first time it's happened and won't be the last (hopefully the last by Zokora though). I'd be gutted if I was a Pompey fan though.

therecklessone

Dublin Spur wrote:

Would anyone rather he hadn't won us the penno and the game ended 1-1 ?

Just something else that's occured to me...

I'm very reluctant to conceed that if he'd not dived the game would have finished 1-1. Only if it happened really late in the game will I agree with that. 1st half, with us 1-0 up and dominant, there was still plenty of time for us to get a 2nd (or to defend the cross for Kanu's goal a bit better)

To assume that the dive aside, the game would have played out exactly as it did is unwise. We were all agreed that had Jenas connected with Davids' cross at Anfield, the result would have been different, right? Why, surely they'd still have scored 3 and won 3-1?

Anyway, its done now. Lets move on.

chalky76

So i aint crying!!As for Pedro Mendes....is their a more unlucky player in the game?The old Trafford disaster,missing out on the Portugese World Cup plane,Thatcher trying to kill him & sundays incident all pretty much in 12 months......Wont be getting on his plane/train/automobile thats for sure!!:eek:

Andrew 83

chalky76 wrote:

So i aint crying!!As for Pedro Mendes....is their a more unlucky player in the game?The old Trafford disaster,missing out on the Portugese World Cup plane,Thatcher trying to kill him & sundays incident all pretty much in 12 months......Wont be getting on his plane/train/automobile thats for sure!!:eek:

What happened with missing the plane? Don't think I heard about that.

WhiteWashMan

he wasnt picked to be in the portugese squad to go to the world cup, is what i think he meant.

not that he was late to the airport or anything

Andrew 83

WhiteWashMan wrote:

he wasnt picked to be in the portugese squad to go to the world cup, is what i think he meant.

not that he was late to the airport or anything

Oh right. I was imagining him getting an emergency late call up and somehow not making it to the airport in time so someone else came or something crazy like that. Not that that would make much sense!

WhiteWashMan

no no n o.

he was getting a taxi to the airport after a last minute decision to include him inthe squad, when a bus full of ivory coast internationals crashed. the all hopped out, blamed him and he missed the flight whilst the driver was giving his insurance details.

or something

chalky76

yeah sorry i should of made it clearer,he lost his place in the squad,mind you Maniche looked a good player in his role so the squad wasnt weakened,still good enough to knock England OUT!!