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what chance then?

slim and none!!!

clutching at straws.... scrapping the barrell

what a joke of a club.

can we have our game replayed against west ham too as sol campbell had other things on his mind.

can we also have our games at middlesbrough and west brom replayed because henry was injured and didnt play.

we have had to play 8 left backs all season so the games we didnt win beacuse our 6th, 7th  8th left back was playing can we have those replayed.

can we go back in the fa cup too because henry, campbell and others missed it through injuries.

i heard sunderland want every game replayed..... just because

this is laughable if i was a spurs fan id be embarresed

The guys at Spurs must have been complete dimwits not to realise the way to get the game called off on Sunday. They should have poured a couple of pints of laxative down all their goalkeeper's throats - with no keepers the Premier League would have had not choice but to postpone it.

I here Blues have asked for the season to be replayed.

I was thinking that. Even Everton were allowed an emergency loan transfer after going short on keepers this season. I'm sure with no keepers this would have been postponed.

I wasn't paying too much attention but heard most of Jol's post match interview. He said they'd contacted the Premiership and asked for the game to be put off. Reply was that it was up to the club and Tottenham chose to play the game.
Having already been told it was their choice they are embarrassing themselves by complaining afterwards

I hope Dan has an alibi for when that meal was being prepared.

We know he had the motive  ;goodvevil;

I think the options put to Spurs were a) play now or b) forfeit the game 3-0.

They were told they could postpone it by 2 hours, the police said no later than that as the fans would have been drinking during the postponment and they didn't want 'em all peed and causing trouble.
Spus said 2 hours was no good as it would make no difference.

Sonopy.......................GFY

Air a bit thin down there?  :dd:

you might find out yourself before too long



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I am embarrassed.

How can you ask for a postponement, get refused, play the match, lose and then ask fir a replay.

The club should have withdrawn the team before the game, not after Arsenal win and Spurs lose.

did spurs make it public they where going to apeal? or was it an outside source?

no its fact they have appealed openly - copy of letter below

copied from THFC oficial website - hope the mods dont mind

Mr Dave Richards
Chairman
The FA Premier League,
30 Gloucester Place
London
W1U 8PL

9 May 2006

Dear Dave

Re: Protest and request for the match between West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur FC on 7/5/06 to be replayed

As you are aware, Sunday could have been a momentous day for our Club and our fans. It was the first time since the inception of the UEFA Champions League that we were in a position to qualify for European club football’s most prestigious competition. After such a successful League campaign, the excitement and expectation of our fans was simply enormous. Our match at West Ham was effectively a Cup Final.

However, we believe that our chances of success were significantly reduced by the exceptional circumstances brought about by the sudden illness of the majority of players in our First Team squad in the early hours of Sunday morning. In being given no viable option to postpone the match other than a 2-hour delay to kick-off, our players were denied the possible opportunity of competing in the Champions League, while our fans have been left with a sense of suspicion and injustice at the way subsequent events unfolded.

We contacted the FAPL early on Sunday morning and, after a series of conversations, the FAPL called for the England Team Doctor and the FAPL Company Secretary to attend our Team Hotel to assess the situation. We believed that the FAPL were examining the situation in good faith and were seeking to obtain all relevant information before coming to a decision. Indeed, in those early conversations the FAPL’s Chief Executive had given us every reason to believe the match could be postponed to allow our players some extra time to recover from a lack of sleep, vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration. 

At this time, myself, Board members and other key decision makers joined the players at their hotel. Whilst waiting for the opinion of the England Team Doctor, who was yet to arrive at our Team Hotel, I was contacted from a distance by the FAPL and told that we had to play the game that day or suffer the consequences. This, by implication, may have meant a significant loss of points and the denial of participation in any European competition – a situation I could not sanction. This threat was made by the FAPL despite the fact that West Ham United, acting honourably and fairly as would be expected from that club, had consented to the postponement of the match provided that any re-match did not interfere with their FA Cup Final preparations.

The FAPL’s Chief Executive then said he would consider the match being delayed to later on Sunday evening, but unfortunately the Police would not sanction a kick off time beyond 5pm. Our medical staff advised that a delay of at least 3 hours would be necessary to have any impact on the players and therefore it was Martin Jol’s view that, in the absence of a postponement or a much later kick-off, we had no choice whatsoever but to proceed to play at 3pm. What puzzles us is why the FAPL were prepared to sanction a 4 hour delay but not a 24 hour delay. If the integrity of all matches kicking off at the same time was your primary concern, why sanction a delay of any kind?

Our next issue was team selection. Martin Jol and his staff, having originally selected their squad of 17 players for the match, were then left in the invidious position of choosing between starting the match with their original 17 players, 10 of whom were feeling very unwell, or drafting in Reserve Team players, the majority of whom have not played for the First Team this season or are untried and untested at First Team level. In any case, having ended their season, our Reserve Team players were scattered across various parts of London and the South East, would not have been prepared to play in a Premier League (or any other) match at such short notice and would rarely, if ever, have played together.

This was an impossible position for our coaching staff to find themselves in on the morning of what was our most important match for many years. Playing a make-shift, inexperienced and ill-prepared team in such a high profile game could have turned the match into a farce, resulting in an embarrassment for the players, the coaches, the Club, our fans and the Premier League competition as a whole.
 
To add insult to injury, the FAPL’s announcement that our game would not be postponed was made live on Sky TV from the pitch side at Highbury. In light of the obvious sensitivities and the competition for 4th place between Arsenal and Spurs this was, to say the least, an unfortunate choice.

We simply do not understand why the FAPL failed to appraise itself of all of the facts before turning down our request that the fixture be postponed under rule E 13.4. We were surprised that the FAPL’s Chief Executive did not make the short journey from Highbury to the Team Hotel at Canary Wharf to assess such a serious issue first hand. We also fail to understand why the England Team Doctor, having been sent to the Team Hotel, was not even consulted before an announcement was made (in fact, he did not even arrive at our hotel before the decision was made or even before our players had to leave the Team Hotel to travel to Upton Park for the match). As a result we played the game with players who were unwell but who were desperate not to let their fans and colleagues down. Clearly, our governing body put us in an impossible situation and gave a significant advantage to Arsenal in competing for that 4th position.

With this in mind we contacted those Premier League Chairmen and Chief Executives we were able to locate to establish what fellow members feel is an appropriate way forward given the unorthodox decision made by the FAPL prior to receiving objective information on the situation. We now have confirmation from a majority of Premier League clubs that they would support a replay and in similar circumstances would expect the game to have been postponed. This is a gesture made by fellow clubs which supports the Charter’s aims of running a professional league in a manner in which all of its member Clubs are treated equally and in a professional, fair and objective way. Additionally, from comments made by Sepp Blatter in the media in the past 24 hours, even FIFA would support the idea of a postponement provided the match was played on or before 15 May 2006.

We therefore formally request that you order that the game be replayed.

It is regrettable that we have been put in this position, but we feel let down by the FAPL’s abdication of its responsibility to consider the request for a postponement fairly and after due consideration of all relevant factors. Where such significant commercial and competitive interests are jeopardised it is only reasonable that our governing body ensures we play on a level playing field and supports us by making decisions based on the facts of the situation which has to include all relevant information. We feel sure that the FAPL, along with most reasonable minded people, would not have wanted such a controversial outcome to the final day of the Premier League season. Furthermore, the FAPL was inconsistent in its approach in being prepared to consider the kick-off to be delayed but not allowing the match to be played on a different day.

Finally, whilst our primary concern here is for our own Club, the situation we find ourselves in highlights what could have been an even bigger issue for a Club facing relegation from the FAPL. Similarly, it is hard to believe that, faced with an identical issue on the morning of a Champions League Final, a club would not seek a postponement (with the opposing team consenting) and that, given the importance of such an occasion, such a request would not be granted by UEFA in the interests of fairness and good sporting practice. In our view, and regardless of the outcome of our case, the FAPL’s decision making process and lines of communication in such a situation need thorough and urgent review in order to ensure that no other club is similarly disadvantaged in the future.

Yours sincerely

DANIEL LEVY
Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur

Nem - u r right.

I am a gooner but this just goes back to what i said to you last night.  Daniel Levy is a kid in a man's role - just playing around with Joe Lewis's money.  Not knowing what he is doing and this letter is just so embarrasing

Yes you have done better under him but fot ffs u should be.  When i was growing up, spurs were a top 6 club and even now i think (although i may be wrong) you get bigger home crowds  than us(coz WHL is bigger)

Arsenal have Hill Wood, Edelman, Dein and Fitzmann, Liverpool have the Moores, Chelski have Abrahamovic, Bruce Buck and Kenyon, MAn Utd had edwards and now have the glazers.  These are real business people - who is Levy??  And who else is on your board with any weight and gravitas??  serious question...

Daniel Levy is doing a great job at Spurs. I would rather have him at the helm, than Alan Sugar or Irvine Scholar.

As for "who is Levy" well, to be Chairman of a Top 6 football club at his age means that he knows what he is doing, he has completely transformed the club, 2 years ago, under Hoddle we were battling relegation and look at Spurs now, the backbone of the team is very young and very strong with some great players. Two years ago, how many Spurs players would get into the Arsenal team? 1 maybe 2. Now half of our team would get into your team, maybe more.

You mentioned "real business people" and said Spurs don't have no "weight". We have Lewis behind us, who is richer than all of the names above put together (excluding Abramovic) so I guess we do have some "weight".

This is a reply to the Spurs letter from a NUFC fansite (nufc.com). :D

In the light of Tottenham's bid to replay the West Ham game, we have composed our own list of  matches we wish to have a 2nd crack at: 

Blackburn (a) 1996 - 4,500 Newcastle fans reportedly felt nauseous symptoms when Graham Fenton scored. Twice. 

Everton (a) 1988 - a goal down in 30 seconds? we simply weren't ready.

Partizan (h) 2003 - The Serbians had obviously practiced spot kicks before...

Our Wembley appearances since 1955. Yes, all of them. But not that stupid football league weekend ...we'll let that go.

However we are worried that QPR fans may now attempt to have Kevin Keegan's debut match replayed - after all, the scorer himself admitted on camera that the Gallowgate End had sucked the ball into the goal - blatantly unfair.

PS - we especially liked the bit in the letter about the Spurs reserve players rarely playing together - who exactly does play for their reserve team then? 

No - I'm sure they were told they can do what they like as it's "their fixture" but the league will look into any postponement and and may take "appropriate action" afterwards.

Jol, knowing he would only have to change two players, (and had cover for a lot more then two) knew he wouldn't have a leg to stand on when the Premier League looked into it and so decided to play the match.

Joe Lewis i think invests in at least 3 other football teams via Enic including Glasgow Rangers.  He is hardly an active investor.

When did he last leave Bahamas (or whichever island based in) let alone actually attend a Tottenham match?

What is Daniel Levy's pedigree - that is all i am asking?  Also i looked at your board of directors on your website last night - for a publicly quoted company, you have 2 other exec directors other than levy and one is your FD - is that it?? Who are these people??

You and i know that football is run in the boardrooms.

That letter to the FA is an embarrasement and reminds me a little of a pathetic letter i may write to a poker site coz i got outdrawn 2 hands in a row and therefore it must be rigged and its their fault.

To call the game your FA Cup Final is just a p*ss take.  There is no difference between the 38th game of a season and say the 11th.  They are all the same and you should not have left yourself in a position where you had to equal our score on the last game of the season.

I could pick that letter to pieces and i am not even a lawyer....and as no flops says, i love the bit about reserve players rarely having played together!!!

Finally i am not a Dr, but when offered an extra 2 hours, why did spurs not take them.  OK its not the 4 hours they wanted but surely 2 hours is better than nothing???

The game was more important then any domestic cup final


If you have suffered from food poisoning before, you will know that 2 hours, 4 hours makes no difference, you will still have food poisoning. We wanted the game postponed, we were refused, so there is no point waiting a couple of hours, the players are still going to have food poisoning.

Enic lost a fortune on their investment in Rangers - selling shares back to David Murray at a significant discount. However, depending on success they are due further payments from Murray.

I realise that their effort is probably a waste of time, but those taking the mick should try to think how they would have felt if it was their club. If Arsenal had lost 4th place due to this, or if my lot Man City (ok I know i am stretching the point here) lost out on 4th to United, or Everton to Liverpool, or if Celtic to Rangers etc. I know I would be camped outside the FA protesting by now.
It would also have been interesting to see if it had been one of the top 4 clubs would they have been treated differently?

 it isbecause tottenham are not a "top 4 club" that there is even an issue. if chelsea, man utd,arsenal or liverpool had been in this situation the fa and everybody else would be saying this is what they have squads for, they are supposed to be the best they have the best squads so they should cope.


if this had happened in january nothing would of been said about it, the game wouldve been played end of story.

i dont remember anybody jumping to middlesbourgh's defence when they couldnt even field a side let alone play with most of their 1st choice team and they got relegated, a far more finaincal disaster for a club than not making the CL, especially when spurs have never been in it before. Middlesbourgh's problem was it was in december so everybody just got on with it.

every team, apart from the exception of chelsea, are affected by injuries at some point in the season and they just get on with it, this is no different apart from spurs players were actually avalible just a little poorly.

you said you would be camped outside the fa protesting. if that was the case you would have fans outside there everyday protesting about dodgy sendings off, goals that were ruled out wrongly etc.etc.

do you think boltons fans should be outside the fa protesting about the 2 penalities they never got against spurs last week that effectivley killed off any chance they had of european football next season

as for the piss taking... im sorry but they are bringing it on themselves by going on about it.

Another totally irrelevant post. Just another " My club is bigger than yours, we are Arsenal, snob post"

thats irrelevant??? why?? because its not what YOU want to hear.


oh and by the way our club is bigger than yours sounds like you are a bit jealous :D

I'm jealous of your stadium.

there was no way a replay was going to be given, nor a postponant. Spain have extended La Liga by a week as one club needed a postponant so all clubs must play their last game at the same time to keep things fair and equal in any unresolved issues.

Didnt boro' have a similair situation a few years back when they got deducted points for not playing?

And anyway in the lsit of 10 players who were ill there didnt seem to be that many who actually woulkd have started, and for a club with more midfielders than anyone else it shouldnt be an issue, just shows a lack of faith in the backup players. Spurs ahve some great young players in their squad its just sour grapes

The FAPL said that we could delay the match by 2 hours, which would have resulted in us knowing Arsenal's result before our game would had finished, so in reality, we could have delayed the match 24 hours, but for some strange reason the FAPL wouldn't allow us to?

Why I wonder?

its just bad luck, they got on with it, lost, thats that.

I'm sur no-one at Spurs really expects a replay. They are asking for one because they feel obliged to. The way this was done in an open letter suggersts that it's purpose was to highlight the FA's shortcomings in dealing with this matter.

The FA clearly had no contingency plan to fall back on in cases like this and performed very badly under pressure. If they had simply said 'Sorry all games must kick-off at 3 this afternoon' or had previously worked out a policy for dealing with this kind of situation then there would be a lot less bad feeling.

Spurs were rightly peeved at the way that the way the FA handled the situation and have responded accordingly.