Barty

#THFC Season Ticket Holder #COYS

[GD @GD5496119]

I think it’s important that we @SpursOfficial fans learn what is and is not handball as we appear to have a very different idea to everybody else.

So I want to start a thread where we can all learn. Feel free to contribute.

I’ll start with a clear and obvious handball:

[Vnm @venom9xk]

🚨Harry Kane on Fabrizio Romano:

“Hes a weird man.

I recieved an e-mail from him where he proposed the idea of paying him a sum €10k per tweet to propel my chances of the Ballon d’Or by posting my statistics and sway journalists towards my side.

I rejected him”

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Not long now ⏳

[Barty @Barty1988]

@LoveTheShirt who's mum looks like Steve Bruce?

[Adam @AdamFulwell_]

Steve Bruce seeing the Newcastle managers role is now available

[osvaldo ardiles @osvaldooardiles]

At the end of the day...Argentina deserved to win. England deserved to lose. 6 defenders! Scaloni, very positive changes. Tuchel, very bad ones... catastrophic ones, to be honest. The best team won.

[Big Jon Bass @TheRealJonbass]

If you want to understand the decline of England, just look at the amount of people complaining about the pubs being open late for people to support the country competing in a World Cup, despite the fact nobody is being forced to go or watch… Melts.

Come on England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🦁🦁🦁

[altpress @AltPress]

blink-182 are teasing something special for the 25th anniversary of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket — including reactivating their MySpace page https://t.co/uywLYFBkSH

[❎e k ℹ️ @XekiHlongwane]

Only in Brazil 🇧🇷

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

Your reminder that if West Ham are relegated today, then next season will be the first season in the entire 138-year history of the English top flight without a team beginning with the letter W.

[Harry Kane @HKane]

Congratulations to everyone at the club especially the fans - massive fight and result on the final day! 💪

[Central @WestHam_Central]

RT IF YOUR CLUB DO NOT SIT IN THE BOTTOM THREE

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

If this bird filed a paternity lawsuit against President Trump, it would win 100%. 🤣🤣

[Stevie WHU Sizzle 🫧 ⚒ @TheSullis]

Arsenal at corners

[Barty @Barty1988]

@JamesTMaw Thought 94-99 was a highjacking movie, 😬

[Barty @Barty1988]

Im 37, in my time the poch era was the best we've seen, my dad enjoyed parts of the 80's but will say poch era was the best he's seen, my grandad had the 60s poch was still up there, but unanimously this is the worst we've seen. think the 90's was bad, bite hand off for that atm!

[Barty @Barty1988]

@HLTCO Thats the problem Dan, you just think it unthinkable/improbable/impossible yet its creeping closer every week

[Barty @Barty1988]

@Flav_Bateman @ben_bowman_ was terrified to talk to me. Sound lad though. #COYS

[Barty @Barty1988]

@Flav_Bateman @ben_bowman_

From the preview convo, worst I've had is my now wife (who i love dearly) was her 30th on the day of a NLD she made me watch with her younger brother (a gooner) the inevitable happened and we folded, the only satisfaction I got was her brother

[Barty @Barty1988]

There been alot of chat this season, be it from the players or manager, Frank "real tottenham fans" VDV & others offering fans outin away ends, its been shite between club and fans for ages! Today! Fans showed up massively, no player or coach could've asked for more from US!