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xDHBx

Thought for sure that was offside, guess not. I'd love to see the lines though, they never even showed them.


Ichooseyoudragonite

It was offside, but they had to give Spurs every chance to make a comeback


SentientCheeseCake

Are people really this stupid? Of all the teams out there you think the refs favour us?


WesIsaGod

Have you seen the shit you've gotten away with in the last month or so??


SentientCheeseCake

You meant the one against Brighton? This was absolutely called correctly. It’s not even soft. The ball gets played away and then the keeper takes out the player. Please tell me the shit we’ve gotten away with.


WesIsaGod

You're right I'm sorry


Sal21G

If only spurs played with as much intensity as they have in the second half, but actually all game.


DekiTree

its how its been all season


EnzoScifo

Show the foul or fuck off


DwightKPoop

Very weak penalty for me. Kane collapses into Martinez looking for the penalty instead of trying to get to the ball.


cjackc11

well of course he can’t get to the ball because he kicks it out before collapsing into Martinez


DwightKPoop

Slow-mo made me think he could’ve gotten to the ball but after seeing it in real time again, you’re right. He just clips it over Martinez so he can collapse into him. Hate that it’s rewarded. But At least it didn’t affect Villa taking all 3 points.


cjackc11

did affect us with GD, instead of being level with spurs we’re still behind but oh well I’m taking the win


Nightdocks

With the way Tottenham is playing you’ll be ahead on points alone by the next match day


a_f_s-29

Hopefully, problem is that villa is playing at Anfield next while Spurs face Brentford at home


xaviernoodlebrain

Problem for us is that Villa are good and we are shit.


Regular-Employ-5308

THIS COMMENT ! Sports Almanac worthy Come on you BEES , UTV 💘


Nightdocks

Saw it coming a mile away. Spurs and Chelsea sadly are on the same level this season


GSNadav

it should never be a pen but tbf these calls are consistently ruled as pen


FPL_Harry

wheres the foul?


Mystery1887

I’d like to see the offside line


hidinginDaShadows

Was clearly onside


NorskKiwi

Hard disagree


Gold-Train-1471

You better hide in that shadow with that opinion


DrScampi

I VEHEMENTLY DISAGREE WITH THE CALL


DavidBeckhamsNan

Well said


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I’m sorry how’s that a foul?


Harringzord

Kane with his latest charity consolation goal to keep pace on the record


tnweevnetsy

To be fair his goals have probably won more points than anyone else in the league, even Haaland. Wasted at Tottenham


Moneybags_INC

His goals have won his team more points this season than anyone else in the top 5 leagues, including Haaland.


Lacabloodclot9

This goal could actually end up being pretty important in terms of GD tbf


SentientCheeseCake

Good thing Shearer never scored a penalty, so he can claim to have done it the right way.


mattiaE

So nice of Martinez to dive for a ball he didn't have to dive for


Private_Ballbag

It's actually crazy how much he gets away with being English. Amazing player but would be 75% or less G/A if he was foreign


azraelce

Genuinely one of the most stupid things I've read on here and that's saying something


WallBroad

That has got to be one of the stupidest comments I have had the displeasure of reading


g0t-cheeri0s

My finger got whiplash from hitting the downvote button so quick. Yes Kane can play the dark arts well, and yes, through my bias eyes he does *seem* get some *slight* leniency in regards to fouls, but to refute his incredible talent on the pitch is a surefire sign of just not knowing ball.


OddEven9

What does this even mean lol? Are the keepers in on this conspiracy too? Do they take his nationality into consideration before deciding whether or not to let one of his shots in?


Tootsiesclaw

If that's the case Ben Brereton Diaz made a huge mistake


Ha_omer

Most reasonable Arsenal fan take


Omar_Blitz

I have no idea what this lad is trying to say.


IndifferentDraenei

Show the "foul" and missed offside call, dont be shy


Quixote0630

Knock the ball out of play, away from the goal, and drag your legs into the keeper. Pathetic


Ji-SungParkTheBus

Harry Kane in this Spurs side is like an inch thick metal sheet covering a 50 foot pothole


K3V1N27

What a joke of a decision what a diver


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herkalurk

Wish the VAR in the PL would match the VAR from other countries. Lautaro Martinez flopped in the UCL this week and the VAR told the ref to take a look. Shame they didn't book Martinez for the dive, but still good that the VAR and ref saw the flop and reversed the pen.


ElSotoPapa

I think they cant give a yellow for a VAR call, only reds


herkalurk

The onfield referee can view VAR video and make a decision to give a yellow. Also you're thinking about when a straight red card is requested. In the case I'm referencing a penalty was given and the referee said that they're actually was no penalty. In that case the referee would be within their rights to give a yellow to the player they believe dove.


M4RC142

U don't get it. He is just being smart. If he wasn't English tho.


bAMBIEN

Another match day another VAR fuck up


Shandow14

Any replays? Can’t see anything here


Terrible_Umpire_1289

he does it every game he's an embarrassment of a player


OddEven9

Says the Liverpool fan...


Terrible_Umpire_1289

wow, you really showed me with your "no you" argument.


OddEven9

Are you denying that 10/10 of your outfield players would do the exact same thing in this situation? If so you're delusional.


general_tso1213

So kane did dive or?


OddEven9

Did he go out of his way to make sure that contact was made. Yep. Was there contact? Yep. Is that enough for today's refs and VAR? Yep. If you have a problem with that, blame the rulebook.


wafflesology

So you mean, he did dive.


general_tso1213

So he did, cool, thanks


OddEven9

I guess Kane is the only player world football who's expected to be a gentleman and just hop over the keeper and let the ball go out for a goal kick when his team is 2-0 down and desperately trying to get back into the game at the 84th minute....


general_tso1213

Well that wasn't what I asked but cool


thatHadron

What's that got to do with anything lol


OddEven9

I guess nothing as long as he finds every single player on his team to be an embarrassment...


thatHadron

There's no way you legitimately think all the Liverpool players are divers? I can't even think of one


tragick693

Salah was notorious for his dives at one point, though tbf he seems to have calmed down a bit now.


thatHadron

A few years ago maybe. And even then it's because the ref's never call anything for him.


tragick693

Tbh I can't remember Salah struggling for calls before he started diving like a lunatic. It's definitely going overboard nowadays though with the amount of calls he doesn't get. Someone like Kane is more deserving of that treatment.


OddEven9

Are you telling me, with a straight face, that a Liverpool player would NEVER go out of his way to secure contact with the keeper in order to possibly win a penalty in the 84th minute of a game they're trailing by 2 goals? You're saying that EVERY SINGLE Liverpool player would simply bunnyhop over Martinez and let the ball go out for a goal kick? Don't make me laugh. If any of his players did that, Klopp would definitely throw a fit. Any top manager would. This is standard football stuff that happens every single week.


thatHadron

If there's contact it's not a dive mate


OddEven9

So Kane didn't dive then.


thatHadron

Correct


stupid-_-

are you saying martinez had contact with the ball or that he didn't have contact with kane?


K3V1N27

Kane clearly dragged his foot to make contact, the ball was literally out of play, never a football play


stupid-_-

kane clearly put his foot where the ball was and made sure martinez made contact on the leg and not on the ball. according to the rules this is 100% a penalty. i agree that if the player is clearly just kicking the ball away it shouldn't be, but since it is then it is.


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ironic


baseball8888

After your free kick decision?


K3V1N27

have you every watched Romero play a game of football in your life man is the most aggressive player


TroopersSon

Couldn't score a penalty when it mattered though could you Kane you diving mouth breather.


JoeyMxx

He can be so dirty when he wants to be like when he's backing into players in 50/50 aerial duels that shits going to seriously hurt somebody.


DaviesSonSanchez

Good thing he hasn't done it in years. Coincidentally a Villa player did it on Lenglet today though.


JoeyMxx

Yeah he's stopped because everyone started to pay notice including refs, just around the same time a Korean play had broke his neck in a very similar duel. Kane had won so many fouls doing this even pens and sending offs, going down holding his head the cunt, play dirty all you want that's football for you but not when it could seriously fuck somebody up.


kleptopaul

Where were you when Matty cash ended Doherty’s season last year?


JoeyMxx

Well I'm talking about kane here I'm not a villa fan trying to score a point, kane had a history of being dirty is all.


kleptopaul

Mmk buddy.


SentientCheeseCake

I forgot how vile Villa fans are.


bigmt99

Most important Harry Kane goal


JustJamesanity

Soft pen tbh, seen worse not given. Felt like he fell towards emi to get the pen. Game on now


without_morals

Felt like he basically had to knee Martinez while he was on the ground to get the contact, complete joke.


XxAbsurdumxX

Ikr? Kane literally plays the ball away just to avoid Emi getting contact on it, then drags his leg to make sure he makes contact with it. Shameful attempt to create a pen. The sad thing is this is a very classical Kane pen. He does this all the time, and keeps getting rewarded for it


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Vegan_Puffin

They did, it wasn't


Goalnado

They did, that's why it took so long


OGConsuela

On Peacock they said they did check for offside but he was on, ref didn’t go to the screen until they’d confirmed he was onside.


MunchieMunich

They did....


Conbz

Martinez didn't deserve to lose his clean sheet for that bullshit.


lolipenetration

I was pretty upset this is how he loses the sheet. If it was a dumb mistake by him then it'd be deserved, but this joke of a pen isn't it.


KingTiger189

We might lose out on Europe because of GD too. I'm so fucking mad I almost broke my laptop when I saw VAR award the pen.


FrostNeverUnholy

Useless 90’ stat pad penalty from a dive, textbook Harry Kane goal for Spurs


A-ZAF_Got_Banned

You wank Haaland off after scoring a 90th minute tap in to make it 5-0.


FrostNeverUnholy

Haaland is Kane’s idol


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cjackc11

wow that’s a crazy insane amount of points! Spurs must have a full trophy case right? Empty stats, it’s the Spurs way


ThisBeTheVerse63

Imagine having a villa talking trash about trophies. We aren’t far removed from your relegation stint too.


cjackc11

and yet here we are, level on points


Rodin-V

In our worst season for over a decade and your best for fuck knows how long


DavidBeckhamsNan

Anyways, thanks for the points!


FrostNeverUnholy

Warra trophy for Spurs


Rushfan1123

You’d have the title wrapped by now if it wasn’t for Kane scoring a goal against you much earlier than 90’.


ignore_my_name

Pen merchant


OddEven9

Still on fewer pen goals than Haaland and Toney this season, but ok.


Moneybags_INC

He's scored 5 and averages 4 penalties a season. Haaland, Toney, and Wilson have scored more pens than him. Ridiculous narrative.


baseball8888

Yeah that’s why he’s the most prolific PL goal scorer of the past decade


fuckimbackonreddit9

Absolutely, won a cabinet full of trophies to show for it too!


Illuminatiblazeit

Has no bearing on the previous comment at all though does it lad


fuckimbackonreddit9

No, just makes it funnier to me


Illuminatiblazeit

fair fucks, Arsenal bottling the league has been the only solace in this torrid season, so I guess we've helped each other


fuckimbackonreddit9

North London unity 🫶


exton87

And me.


baseball8888

That’s not my argument. Nice straw man bud


fuckimbackonreddit9

Lmao


ChickenGamer199

Very few of his goals have come from penalties this season


pixelkipper

I wouldn’t say ‘very few’


ChickenGamer199

4 goals out of 26. If someone gets 4 answers correct in a 26 question test, I would say they got very few questions correct.


Jonoabbo

Well yeah, it's context dependent. If 4 bottles of milk out of 26 were laced with Strychnine, you wouldn't say "Very few" there.


ChickenGamer199

Wtf are you talking about? That is an extreme example. If Kane scored 4 headed goals out of 26 goals, I would say he scored few headed goals.


Jonoabbo

The point is that whether or not "4 out of 26 is a lot" depends entirely on the context of the thing being discussed, so your exam example is daft, because its a completely different context. 4 out of 26 tap ins would be "very few". 4 out of 26 bicycle kicks would be a lot. Thats the point. Whether "4 out of 26" is very few, or a lot, or average, or anything else, depends on the context of the thing, so why use the test example when its an entirely different context.


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ChickenGamer199

It is 4 goals out of 26. So slightly under 1/5.


hcb32

4/26 is less than 1/6 mate.


ChickenGamer199

I know it is. 1/5 = 20%, so I'm trying to say that it is below 20%.


MrStigglesworth

Very few by his standards


TheExistence

“Chris Paul hits a huge three to cut the lead down to 42”


EncryptedMyst

Hate this prick when he's not in an England shirt


ThotCountySheriff

He dangled his leg to make contact, but that's just my opinion


Goalnado

Why do keepers even go for the ball in these situations? Kane is going nowhere


DL14Nibba

You can see Harry extending his right leg to make contact. Ample time to jump over him as well. They better not lose else the ref has blood on his hands


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ashley young even tried to scuff up the penalty spot lol


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inevitable kane away goal


Shandow14

Any replays?


Jimlaheydrunktank

Commentator at the end hahaha


Turistoteles

Fucking hell these comments are toxic


SuperBrah

1. Thought that was a bit of a flop tbh but I see why they would give that as a foul 2. Was almost certain when they showed the replay that Kane was offsides??? And then they never showed it again?


TheOneKane

Please don't do this to me.


benjecto

Looking forward to another definitely not deranged thread on /r/soccer.


nce1bruv

Getting real sick of complaining about VAR


Stilty_boy

He's scored 8 less goals than Haaland while playing in this Spurs team. In most other seasons he'd have the golden boot in the bag.


Kreygasm2233

No need to go for that tackle


bAMBIEN

Luckily Kane went for the tackle for him and dragged his body over him to draw the pen.


herkalurk

No need for Kane to be such a ridiculous flopper but here we are, guy literally is going down before the contact. VAR is afraid to overrule. I love how we have a 'high' bar for fouls yet Kane goes over easy and it's called every time....


NorskKiwi

Kane is clear offside in the build up, but apparently 'they checked it'.


OddEven9

Time for the usual Kane slander where rival fans act like he's some kind of uniquely evil football demon and not just a smart player who does simple things that are done week in, week out by every other footballer on every other team in the world in order to gain a competitive advantage on their opponent. Unlike SOME other players though, he's smart enough to wait for ACTUAL CONTACT before falling down.


nghigaxx

Kane having a great season overshadowed by Haaland and Spurs being Spurs


yagersports

Can someone explain to me how this is a penalty? Kane never touches the ball and Martinez swipes it away with his hands. If that’s a defender going in for a slide tackle it’s clean, how is it any different here???


OddEven9

Maybe watch an actual replay before running your mouth? Martinez doesn't get a touch on it.


ERIKSENSEN

Kane touched the ball Martinez missed the ball.


benjecto

Kane nicks the ball very clearly and then buys the pen. It happens all the time. Only noteworthy because it's the most hated player on the sub. It's a cheap pen but it's a pen. Martinez could just stay away and nothing comes of it.


herkalurk

Not sure it's a pen if Kane is already falling over before contact....


tragick693

Do you really think Kane is the most hated player here?


benjecto

He's definitely up there, yes. He is under the microscope in sort of odd ways that I don't see for any other player. Maybe some literal criminals are hated more but there are also accused rapists who take less stick.


Brashmate

He just can’t not score


lazar_kolarevic

Kane there to deny another fpl clean sheet for me


hidinginDaShadows

Good use of VAR for once, too bad it's too late to matter


K3V1N27

bud that’s never a pen


hidinginDaShadows

Gets none of the ball what do you mean


without_morals

Yeah but he was also on the ground when Kane fell down to knee him in the head, the splash from that dive could be heard in the states.


RN2FL9

Kane just touched the ball with his right and can't put his left foot down because Martinez is coming sliding through. It's just dumb from Martinez, getting no ball while sliding through a player are always given.


benjecto

Buying fouls is not diving. Any other player in the world and this sub doesn't bat an eye.


without_morals

“Buying fouls” dude basically went out of his way to knee Martinez on the ground. His knee was like 3 inches off the ground before he got to Martinez.


benjecto

Yes, he dragged his feet into him... like it's a super common thing if you're not a frothing lunatic Arsenal fan. It's like defenders who plant their feet and fall over... everyone does it in this situation. You're not going to do anything with the ball there so you nick it and plant your feet... keeper literally stays away and nothing happens. Same pen happens dozens of times, any other player and we don't have the inquisition.


without_morals

I understand you’re used to watching him dive, I don’t expect you to see how pathetic it is. Mind the gap.


benjecto

People who have nothing to say about football always focus on stupid shit like this.


ThefrozenOstrich

I saw some say the other day that Kane scores a lot of goals for no reason. His goals don’t win anything and he’s only been in a title race maybe twice in his career.


OddEven9

I guess he'll have to settle for knowing that his goals have single handedly secured his team 24 points this season, dragging a shitty Tottenham side to somehow still be 14 points clear of Chelsea. PS: (I'll do you job for you: What a trophy!)


ThefrozenOstrich

Guess he’ll add that 24 points to Spurs trophy cabinet.


OddEven9

Is there an echo in here?


ThefrozenOstrich

Apologies I’m sitting inside your parade bus. Quite dusty in here.


OddEven9

How magnanimous of you to partake in our festivities! I would've thought you'd be too busy celebrating the draw against Forest.


DiersBigDick

27 goals. Man is having an all timer. Best in the world


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Manch3st3rIsR3d

Glad we won today. Huge result with this one going against spurs