Who remembers John Duncan our underated Scottish forward back in the early 70’s?
I remember him turning Gordon McQueen inside out right in front of goal one Saturday afternoon at the Lane.In full view of the ref the then,Utd Centre Half,took his legs.In all my many years of following Tottenham it was and still is the most blatent penalty I have ever seen!And guess what the then England’s number 1 ref(to be honest I’ve forgotten his name,can anyone help me out)waved play on.I was perfectly in line with the incident and there is no doubt whatsoever that it was cheating.Remember in those days players did not dive and even if they had of done John Duncan was not that sort of player.
And this came hot on the heels of a similiar incident,just I think 2 years before,when the legendry Alfie Conn was likewise brought down.

Both matches were tight and I think in at least one of them it cost us the match.

As Martin write’s in his article these incidents continue to happen.

My own feeling is that after the Munich Air Crash there was a hugh wave of publicity and sympathy across the country shown to them and this has carried on to this day at everyone else’s expense!

It is about time that these year after year incidents were highlighted by the media.But of course who are the Media’s Golden Boys??

And where is the BBC sports department moving too in 2011 —- MANCHESTER!!

Enough said!

I agree that in Manure’s case there seems far too many incidents of this kind, and I think you’re right in wanting Redknapp to strike pre-emptively regarding the officiating of Saturday’s game. However, as you hinted at, the players have a lot of mental questions to answer and to continually play the victim role in all of this will result in a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.

Hopefully Redknapp is the man to balance the players’ mental extremities, i.e. from: ‘We’re winning, we’re the best’ to: ‘We’re losing now, let’s not bother’. Redknapp will hopefully instil a quiet confidence and belief so that the players, no matter what is thrown at them, stay calm and composed.

Whatever happens in the next two games ahead (Manure and the chavs), the real test will come in how they respond against the five ‘lesser quality’ sides after.

BUT

You failed to list the (admittedly seemingly slim) number of games where Spurs got the rub of the man in green.

and, getting the face of the ref is best left to reds of all ilks – its not very becoming of the lilywhites and symptomatic of the game today.

That doesn’t mean can’t beat, join. That would be a sad day for The Spurs i grew up admiring (im still only 31!).

Oh, and Respect!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TEd77NoSGk