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The Great Conspiracy


ontap said:
My pals answer to your comment “
I would argue that us going down brings more attention to all football rather than us being a crap
Midtable team. We will be the biggest story all season until we come back if we do go down. It’s a bigger win for the PL.”
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I wonder whether this is revealing about the wider issue of why they're in trouble

No self-reflection at all. No acceptance of their situation and how to work to get out of it
Black_Cats1879 said:
The real spurs conspiracy is why they’ve had so many serious player injuries. I heard it was because of the retractable pitch
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From my understanding there is a tiny correlation - and with Real Madrid as well - but not enough data to prove it. Other teams have retractable pitches and there's no correlation
 
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I think there might be something in the claims that the prevailing winds are saying Spurs to go down and it may have an unconscious bias effect on the refs, fans, pundits etc

But this conspiracy idea just makes no sense on any level.
 
Can't believe I just wasted 10 mins watching that. There's about 3 or 4 where I thought yeah that's definitely a horrendous error. 90% of it is stuff you could pick out from any game in the Premier League. A lot of it is just Pedro Porro and Richarlison just throwing themselves to ground looking for fouls.
 
ontap said:
More from my Spurs mate. “ 4 penalties in last 100 games. When the average has been 15. That fact alone is pretty damning about the refs. That can’t be just random “ 😩😩
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Stats show why they're not winning penalties. They don't have good dribblers, and their style of play is poor.

They have the highest number of posession lost via tackles across the league - 405. For reference, Villa who also have had no penalties this season have the third highest - 379. If your players can't dribble past an opponent to win a foul, how do you expect to win penalties?

They also have the 4th highest number of touches in the box per shots on goal (behind Chelsea, Liverpool & Brighton), suggesting they're not playing danger balls into the area for attackers to run onto, or cut backs for attackers to shoot. This means the opposition defence is less panicked and less likely to make mistakes/rash tackles. Villa? They're fifth highest on this metric.

It's not a conspiracy. There's factual evidence that correlates with the only other team not to be awarded a penalty. It was literally the first two metrics I looked at on FBRef too - both show a correlation with Villa.

With regards to unfair decisions going against them, it happens to every team, it's just now amplified for them as they're a poor side and have less chances in attacking areas. Where before they'd have a poor decision go against them, they'd score 2 other goals and win 2-0; now they're having a poor decision going against them, not scoring in the game, and being defensively poor so losing 1-0.
 
shieldsdan86 said:
Can't believe I just wasted 10 mins watching that. There's about 3 or 4 where I thought yeah that's definitely a horrendous error. 90% of it is stuff you could pick out from any game in the Premier League. A lot of it is just Pedro Porro and Richarlison just throwing themselves to ground looking for fouls.
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Aye, their players need to get a grip of the fact they’re in a relegation battle and not swanning about in Europe anymore. Diving about and whinging isn’t the way to get out of it.
 
TallPaul said:
Screw the Championship, a hefty dose of league 1 will do their fan base the world of good
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Depending on how many leave them if they go down and which mercenaries remain, I would not be surprised if they end up near the bottom, their owners barely seem to know how to run a PL club, nevermind a championship one.

And pea sized heart mercenaries are the worst thing you can have in the second tier as we know so well.
 
tunstallhill said:
to be fair there is some absolutely horrendous decisions in there, when you think they've got VAR to check them

but, i think you could probably compile a similar video for every club other than man city and liverpool

no decision this season will be anywhere near as bad as the Le Fee non-penna away at bournemouth, given that VAR had a chance to review it.

without VAR, most of them decisions look okay
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Although 09 at Leeds was worse! 🤣
 
ontap said:
More from my Spurs mate. “ 4 penalties in last 100 games. When the average has been 15. That fact alone is pretty damning about the refs. That can’t be just random “ 😩😩
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Tbf you actually need to get into the oppositions box to get a penalty
 
ontap said:
More from my Spurs mate. “ 4 penalties in last 100 games. When the average has been 15. That fact alone is pretty damning about the refs. That can’t be just random “ 😩😩
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Tell your friend they don't understand averages and statistics
 
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