Pochettino apologises for Clattenburg confrontation (From Daily Echo)

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  Confucious wrote:
  

  Strasbourg Saint wrote:
  

  St Forlife wrote:
  Several posts on here about dodgy decisions NEVER evening themselves out.
  
  Well yesterday I was at the game and they did I have to admit. Clear shirt pull by Shaw in the firsr half - not given. Never a pen in the second half - gioven - err that seems a bit even I think!!
  
  Don't get me wrong I was furious at the late decision but if I was a Norwich fan I would have been equally furious at the first one.
  
  As a kid (jumpers for goal posts and all that)n if you were kicked my coach would say get up and don't let him know he hurt you. Now if an opponent gets within a f@rts breath of you the coach tells you to try and con the ref and get the other guy sent off! So everyone in football including the fans gave to accept that because refs are being 'played' they are going to get some decisions wrong. So we've just got to accept it.
  
  If we want better refs - the coaches and players have to look at themselves first and make it easier for a ref to give a good decision. Not ranting and raging that the ref got it wrong. Unless of course we want to sanitise the sport further by eliminating any form of contact and revert to a zonal game with a maximum number of passes before possession has to be given up to the other team.
  
  Rant over.
  
  Great performance on a dreadful surface. Another omne that got away. It's going to be a close one!

  Total respect to you and all those who made that journey. Unless you live in Norwich, it must have been hell getting home.
  
  You're right, those 2 decisions evened themselves out (although, timewise, the impact of a scored first-half penalty is incomparable in magnitude to a scored 92nd minute one).
  
  The thing is, if you apply that across a season (especially this one), you won't be able to.
  
  I didn't see the game yesterday but others have confirmed that we could have had a penalty, too. Furthermore, at Newcastle, just about every 50-50 went against us, they scored a goal from an offside position and another after a foul that should have gone the other way; and all that before the penalty which probably wouldn't have been given at the other end or if there had not already been 2 ridiculous shouts by the Toon fans.
  
  It's not just us, Norwich claim they've not had a penalty all season, while, yesterday, Reading were denied by a (not) offside shout and Swansea had a 'good' goal disallowed.
  
  Offsides? Toon at home - Jay offside? Man City away, Tevez onside?
  
  It's probably why I feel so little sympathy for Manure after Nani's mid-week sending off, it was a small slice of re-balance.
  
  As for conning refs, it's why I continue to advocate video evidence. Controversial, I know, but would Shaw have pulled Holt's sleeve if he knew there was a chance that a 5th official was authorised to tell the ref to award a penalty?
  
  A final point, let's imagine one of our chnaces had (luckily) crept in and, after 92 minutes, we had been (a bit luckily) leading 1-0. Then the penalty ...... and it had (luckily) crept in under Borac's dive. That 'evening up' would have been harder to stomache this morning.

  Now that is an interesting perspective and has cheered me up no end Stras.
  
  I just imagined that (luckily) we were three up with four minutes to go. Then a big fat ugly Norwich fan chucked a bit of banana skin on the pitch and Artur (unluckily) slipped on it and dropped the ball into his own net. Then, during a harmless Norwich cross, Hooi (unluckily) felt a sharp, momentary and inexplicable twinge in his left testicle and mis-kicked straight into Holt's path for him to (luckily) score a sitter. Then Norwich equalised after a hard hit Holt shot going harmlessly wide, luckily pinged off Jose's shoulder onto Yosh's right buttock and then ricocheted on to Spiders knee and off Boruc's head on to the crossbar, where it bounced off on to Cork's back and (unluckily) into the net.
  
  Then, in the dying seconds, a Holt shot, going fractionally wide, unluckily for us, was hit by a fragment of a meteorite (in a 78 trillion billion million to 1 chance) and diverted in to the net for a (lucky) Norwich winner.
  
  Anyway, I thought after thinking all that, phew, I'm really glad didn't happen. It really doesn't take much imagination to be very happy with just a point.

  Like the Saints (thanks to Boruc), Confucious, yours is a 'point well made'.
  
  Luckily, the omens are good for the rest of the season; there are literally NO - and I mean NO - meteorites expected anywhere near any Saints game between now and the end of May.
  
  Alas, the negs on here will see that as an opportunity for a fragment one to deflect the ball FOR a Saints goal (a 98 trillion billion million to 1 chance, because we're generally not as lucky as the average meteorite-assisted team) as an opportunity missed - which, of course, will be all Guly's fault."
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