Liverpool legend Mark Lawrenson has criticised Gareth Bale and Tottenham Hotspur for their childish reaction to Charlie Adam's tackle during last week's LFC-Spurs pre-season friendly in the USA.
In the aftermath of the now grossly exaggerated incident, Spurs boss Andre Villas Boas joined Bale in making a series of childish public statements about the issue, the nadir of which came when Bale petulantly insisted he was 'not going to accept' Adam's apology, even if he made one.
Yes, Adam's tackle was clumsy, but he did not deserve to be publicly ridiculed for it. In any event, after all the fuss made by Spurs, Bale was back in action just 72 hours later as he played 74 minutes in the London club's final game of their pre-season tour. In his column for the Liverpool Daily Post, Lawro was distinctly unimpressed with the way Spurs and Bale handled the situation. He observed:
"I’m not sure where Tottenham put the handbags before their statements but they just have to grow up and get on with it.
"I don’t buy the Tottenham complaints that suggest Adam has been deliberately targeting Bale in recent years. Yes, the tackle wasn’t good but I don’t think it was malicious, and now it appears Bale will be fine.
"In any case, youngsters such as Bale and Kyle Walker have no idea about the context of serious tackling. Some of these lads wouldn’t have lasted two minutes when I was playing".
As a result of his juvenile EMO victim act, £30m-rated Bale has come out of this situation looking a bit foolish. His reaction is hardly surprising though - what else can you expect from a preening, pamperedladyboy footballer, the likes of whom are increasingly prevalent in top level football? Man up, already!
Given his seemingly miraculous recovery, Bale should (IMO) apologise to Adam for calling him 'a bit of a coward'. What right does he have to publicly besmirch the Liverpool midfielder's character in such a way?
To his credit, Adam has remained silent on the issue, and simply allowed Bale to make a massive fool of himself.
Jaimie Kanwar
In the aftermath of the now grossly exaggerated incident, Spurs boss Andre Villas Boas joined Bale in making a series of childish public statements about the issue, the nadir of which came when Bale petulantly insisted he was 'not going to accept' Adam's apology, even if he made one.
Yes, Adam's tackle was clumsy, but he did not deserve to be publicly ridiculed for it. In any event, after all the fuss made by Spurs, Bale was back in action just 72 hours later as he played 74 minutes in the London club's final game of their pre-season tour. In his column for the Liverpool Daily Post, Lawro was distinctly unimpressed with the way Spurs and Bale handled the situation. He observed:
"I’m not sure where Tottenham put the handbags before their statements but they just have to grow up and get on with it.
"I don’t buy the Tottenham complaints that suggest Adam has been deliberately targeting Bale in recent years. Yes, the tackle wasn’t good but I don’t think it was malicious, and now it appears Bale will be fine.
"In any case, youngsters such as Bale and Kyle Walker have no idea about the context of serious tackling. Some of these lads wouldn’t have lasted two minutes when I was playing".
As a result of his juvenile EMO victim act, £30m-rated Bale has come out of this situation looking a bit foolish. His reaction is hardly surprising though - what else can you expect from a preening, pampered
Given his seemingly miraculous recovery, Bale should (IMO) apologise to Adam for calling him 'a bit of a coward'. What right does he have to publicly besmirch the Liverpool midfielder's character in such a way?
To his credit, Adam has remained silent on the issue, and simply allowed Bale to make a massive fool of himself.
Jaimie Kanwar
30million??? Where did you pluck that from.... twat
ReplyDeleteMark lawrenson?? who?? another no nought sticking his ample nose where it is not wanted...
ReplyDeleteJust a reminder: As per the comment policy, any posts containing personal insults against anyone (other posters/footballers etc) will be deleted, and the poster will be banned.
ReplyDeleteThe only massive fools anyone can see here are these two idiots ridiculously named Lawro and Jaimie Kanwar ...
ReplyDeleteOne of the few things Lawro has said that I agree with.
ReplyDeleteScousers sticking by a player in the wrong? Sounds familiar.
ReplyDeleteStill no apology from Adam. You stay classy Liverpool.
You obviously didn't listen. Banned.
ReplyDeleteBale has EVERY right to besmirch adam for his two malicious fouls. More so than you do to besmirch Gareth Bale
ReplyDeleteSo dread to think what's Lawro's stance on Suraez is then?, Waving imaginary red cards, diving, biting people. Let me guess "A man's man lol"
ReplyDeleteWhatever Bale's faults at least he is not a racist, unlike LFC.
Tackles like Adam's happen 10 times a game during the season - you don't get whining players bitching to the press and calling their opponent a 'coward' every time, do you? Adam doesn't need to publcily apologise; Bale is not hurt, is he? Football is a man's game, and if Bale can't hack it, perhaps he should get a different job.
ReplyDeletehaha i like it Jaime but i've got a feeling you could be getting a few nasty comments from Spurs fans!! no i agree though and id say it no matter who he was and who he played for! the fuss Bale made about that tackle was utter ridicolous. Yes it wasn't a good challenge but anyone who knows anything about football knows Charlie Adam just isnt that type of player? Spurs cant dislike him that much ha they put a bid in for him when he was at Blackpool. All this talk of him apologising to bale as well? well to be fair charlie probably would have done if Bale didnt publically slate him!! i dont know what all the fuss is about? for 80 grand a week or more i'm sure he can put up with the odd hard tackle! he's lucky he never played against Souness
ReplyDeleteI don't think the tackle was vindictive or he was out to get Bale but I do think Adam is a dirty player and doesn't really care who he kicks up in the air. I think a lot of it is because he is so slow and gets frustrated. Reminds me a bit of Gatuso.
ReplyDeleteNo, Lawro condemned Suarez for his behaviour.
ReplyDeleteThis is why British football is in the doldrums. Too many
ReplyDeletefans, coaches and ex-players are living in the past when it was all about
'letting the opposition know you are there' and putting the boot in.' That may
still work in Sunday league football but in the world stage the technically
gifted players just run rings around us and make us look like the Neanderthals of football. Unless we change this thinking then we will be just as extinct as the Neanderthals. The game has moved on since Lawrenson days perhaps his views should too!
what about calling Bale a preening, pampered ladyboy...is this not a personal insult? (i agree with it, i'm just saying!)
ReplyDeleteGuys, I'm just knocking some t-shirts up with "Charlie Adam is innocent", Giro's welcome
ReplyDeleteAbout as accurate and considered as his score forecasts...poxy plastic paddy.
ReplyDeleteapology for what? if every player apologised for a poor tackle we'd be sick of hearing about it. man up!
ReplyDeleteunbeliveable to say it was not malacious
ReplyDeleteHAHAHHA, You clueless muppit. Liverpool fans arent sticking up for Adam, he is a poor tackler, YET, the whole country other than Spurs fans can see Bale is out of order with his remarks and has made a complete fool of himself and THFC, end of. Sit down clueless boy.
ReplyDeletetotally biased comments from Lawro as per usual, and a poorly written article from JK.
ReplyDelete'Pathetic EMO' , 'Complete fool', surely these are classed as personal insults (by the mod ??) and the article should be removed immediately ??
Insult? More like a statement of fact if you ask me. Plus, it's not in the comments section ;-)
ReplyDeleteSo wehre would that leave lawro and who'd write his column?
ReplyDeleteFor once I must agree with Lawro. Whereas I am most definitely not a fan of Charlie Adam (doesnt score, no pace, cant tackle and not too clever in dead ball situations either) he is no cheat nor is he dirty. He is just...er... slow and not very good is all.
ReplyDeleteGuys these things happen in football people do get angry when they are hurt by an opponent but you have to move on, its a contact sport after all.If Bale is so upset about being fouled and wants to carry on complaining he should play some non contact sport .
ReplyDeleteThe way Tottenham dealt with this issue was terrible. We all know Adam can't tackle and is a liability at times.
ReplyDeleteSpurs players coming out and slating Adam thinking he has a personal grudge against Bale and he jealous is laughable and childish ... to top that Bale recovers 2 days later and scores for them.
There is only one disgraceful player in this whole incident and that is Bale - the man who let his country down to fake another injury the puss..
Mark Lawrenson, a real life example why ex footballers should just retire and run a pub or something. The bloke has about as much credibility as a football pundit as Suarez does as being a non racist! LFC used to be respected but with Donkeys like Adam, Carroll and Downing playing for them they are now a joke club!
ReplyDeleteIt was an exaggerated incident, but one that could have had serious repurcussions as in the last time Charlie Adam was humiliated by Gareth Bale on the pitch, Adam took revenge the only way he knew how. And Bale was out of action for 3 months that time. He is just a thug and Liverpool can't seem to attract any player with more quality then thugs, racists and fools.
ReplyDeleteAllowed Bale to make a massive fool of himself? So we can't insult anyone, but you can? Oh ok. As long as we understand the boundaries on this.
ReplyDeleteIt actually makes me laugh that Lawrenson says the tackle 'wasn't a good one'. Wow. Yeah, and Suarez is 'just a slightly naughty boy'. People in glass houses should stay silent and avoid embarrassment. You know, like the exact opposite of this post.
Simple really a huge Liverpool fan in Lawro jealous of the far superior side Tottenham and one of the best players in the league Bale.
ReplyDeleteMr Jaime Kanwar you can continue to look up the table at Spurs next season as you have for the past 3 years, can't wait until you come to the lane, guaranteed 3 points everytime....
How very impartial of Lawro. What an immensely neutral pundit. Valid.
ReplyDeleteIs this the same Mark Lawrenson who repeatedly calls the Great Britain football team England? The same Mark Lawrenson who,along with half the Liverpool team spent Monday afternoons in Perms'R'us.Gareth Bale a ladyboy indeed....quit indulging your fantasies publicly you Pseudo Irishman!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, dont care if I get banned, never gonna visit this site again. It was on Tottenham newsnow.
ReplyDeleteBale will let his football do the talking. He is world class. Adam is an average premiership player at best, playing in an average Liverpool team. You'll be lucky to finish top 10 this year.
ReplyDeleteI dont think Bale made all the fuss about that tackle it was the tackle from 2 years ago that was deliberate and nasty the recent tackle just added fuel to the fire and was unnessacary in a friendly game. It also didn't help with the fact that Adam did not go over to Bale who was in pain and say sorry or even try to help him up which most other footballers do. Adam is a thug and everyone knows it he was a thug before he joined liverpool and liverpool fans should not defend him although the club is making a name for itself in defending guilty players.
ReplyDeleteAdam's tackle on Bale was ugly. And because he's done it before, it's fair to suggest that there was malevolent cynicism there too. In my opinion, I understand why Bale was upset by this and I think you'd be writing the opposite about LFC's silence on the matter if Suarez was the accused, and Dalglish the manager.
ReplyDeleteVery hypocritical again James, lad.
If you had Bale in the Liverpool side im sure you will be a bit upset that a over weight, slow, limited flop had for the second time tried injuring the same player with a deliberately late foul.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Adam is upset that we were the team that destroyed his Liverpool career, getting sent off and losing 4-0 and since then Liverpool fans have never liked him
jaimie why run this story if you dont allow personal insults,isnt that whats happenend here.lawrenson calling people ladyboys,something he probably knows alot about.typical liverpool mentality deny it happend, and it will all be the other persons fault,hope you ban me jaimie because if this is your idea of reporting your sh-t ahhhhhh.
ReplyDeletehey if a guy put you out for up to 6 months or more and came any wear near you. wouldn`t you scream? lol
ReplyDeleteit happens........
I've never heard Lawro say anything good about Spurs. He's always using any opportunity to get a dig in at Spurs because he lacks objectivity. I also don't think Bale or THFC made as much out of it as the Media would have us believe. The quotes from Bale or the Club on this matter are very very few. The only *actual* quote I saw from Bale was simply him saying he wouldn't comment on it...
ReplyDeleteJamie kanwar is such a f*cking idiot, I hope he bans me so I don't have to read any more of his ballsh*t
ReplyDeleteIs the origininal poster, who insulted gareth bale calling him a pampered ladyboy, going to be banned?? Take a look at yourself Jamie.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling things will go pear-shaped for AVB at Spurs, just like they did at Chelsea. The guy just doesn't command the respect of his players. He's only been at Spurs for 5 minutes and he's already set the tone. Instead of wading in and attacking Adam in public, AVB should've set an example for his players and shown a bit of dignity. Bale just followed AVB's example and made a fool of himself, and that will be Spurs' downfall this season. Spurs will struggle for 4th this season IMO. Liverpool may also struggle, but Rodgers will last longer in the job than AVB, mark my words.
ReplyDeleteJaimie are you banning Neutral View?
ReplyDeleteHe is insulting Liverpool fans for sticking by our player who was in the right unlike a certain Spurs player who is a known serial diver, and also another Liverpool player who has served his punishment rightly or wrongly, that matter is done and dusted and had nothing to do with Spurs anyway, but some people just like sticking their probiscuses in anyway.
BTW Adam is as we all know a useless tackler but He's not a malicious player by any stroke of the imagination.
Anyone at the Spurs vs. Blackpool match would understand Bale's reaction. It was a dreadful tackle by Adam. He knows he's slow, he knows he's useless so there is no excuse for his tackling so late. And having done that at White Hart Lane with Blackpool, he put in a late tackle at White Hart Lane for Liverpool and saw red. Now he puts in another bad tackle and, whereas most other players these days have the courtesy to apologise, Adam did not and that, by and large, seems to be what has driven Tottenham to react the way it has. Adam is trying to be the new Souness, only without the skill, without the pace, without the timing and without the intelligence but at least he's Scottish.
ReplyDeleteI train with a Liverpool fan, who unlike you lot, actually didn't stick up for Charlie Adam, and sees his challenges as reckless. Regardless of whether 'tackling was harder in my day' or not, if someone stamps on your ankle when you're a meter past them, it's gunna bloody hurt! The end of the season before last, Adam put Bale out for the remainder of the season, and now this?. I don't see why Gareth Bale should apologize for calling him a 'bit of a coward', I would have called him a wanker personally. Had this been a Premier League game (against NY Red Bulls after) Bale probably wouldn't have played, so the fuss there against him is ridiculous. I'm sorry but Liverpool fans, you are the most fickle and deluded in the country. Even more so than the uneducated Arsenal fans who call Spurs fans 'Jews'.
ReplyDeleteI think you need to purchase a mega jar of KY Jelly ,apply it liberally until your anus releases your head.
ReplyDeleteYep, seem totally reasonable. Adam isn't that type of player - honest...
ReplyDeleteYou can hardly blame Bale for being less than impressed with Adam - the "tackle" he made on Bale when at Blackpool ended Bale's season. He's probably not malicious, he's just slow and and has poor timing on his tackle - it he can't get to the ball he just kicks the man instead. Jumping on someone's ankle from behind is pretty cowardly, to be honest. And why bother in a pre-season friendly?
ReplyDeleteBale would have been better advised to keep quiet, but I can understand why he's unhappy with the tackle.
The large number of Liverpool ex-pros in the media just mean that they can always find a cheerleader to come out to support their players and managers whenever there is controversy - "Dalglish is a great manager still", "Suarez is lovely and misunderstood", "Andy Carroll is obviously a £35m striker" etc. etc.
Oh dear, ''Lfc are racist''...oh dear, thats all you've got on us?? How about... Spurs are a small, mid table club who have massivley over-achieved under Arry and have had little success in the clubs largely irrelevant history, no noticable fan-base beyond London, have little relevence on the world football stage, irrevevant 'brand' beyond the sounds of the cockney bells, bit of a 'small club mentality'', always banging on at ''look what weve done'' ''were above Arsenal'' blah blah blah, go win a European Cup, or even try a Champions League final or even try and get a better attendance in your pre-season matches (LFC outnumbered Spuds fans 50-1 in the recent US Tour...now thats embarassing).... Wouldn't you agree??
ReplyDeleteYour stating as fact that gareth bale is a pampered ladyboy in the comments section ;-)
ReplyDeleteOne thing to remember is that the game was supposed to be a "friendly". Poor old Adams. Now he looks like the victim. Not as if he has ever made this type of tackle previously and cut short a player's season. I'm just so upset that Spurs didn't manage to get a player of his undoubted quality in the team. As for Lawro, he does like to say "handbags" quite a lot!
ReplyDeleteJaimie, you don't seem too bright - that will probably get this message canned. :) Can you tell me how you know "the guy doesn't command the respect of his players"? Is it because he has won the Portuguese league, cup and Europa Cup all in one season? Almost as many competitions as Rodgers....
ReplyDeleteAnd what would you call "pampered, preening Lady-boy" Jamie? If not a personal insult against a player?
ReplyDeleteas i said this would annoy a lot of Spurs fans!! so we will be looking up at spurs next season? maybe but spurs have just lost the best thing about them! Harry redknapp! the man turns Spurs into a different team and thats the thanks he gets? well your certainly right Spurs did finish above Liverpool but as per usual it was another trophy less season! poor old Liverpool finished 8th and reached two cup finals winning one of them. remind me again how is Spurs empty trophy cabinet? full ov cob webs would be my guess
ReplyDeleteNo they don't. It was a nasty, attempt to hurt a player, from Adam who has a track record for this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteRe your point about Suarez - total nonsense, and there is absolutely no evidence to back up what you've suggested. As I've stated (and proved) repeatedly, I *defended* Suarez in greater detail than anyone on the planet during the Evra situation. I treat each situation on its own merits. Yes, I believe that signing Suarez was the wrong decision, and he's caused major problems for the club, but if it was Suarez on the end of Bale's jibes, my article would've been the same.
ReplyDeleteSame as mate , even a broken clock is right twice a day aye ?
ReplyDeleteDeliberately late? I take it you have proof of that, right?
ReplyDeleteNo one is denying it was a mistimed tacklet, but that does not make it right for Bale to call him a 'coward' in public. That is just pathetic.
I don't think Garth really cares about looking foolish. EMO?? Hilarious!! Charlies tackle on Bale last season was horrific anyone claiming he didn't do it purpose either hasn't seen the challenge or is totally deluded. You cannot defend Charlie's actions....unless you're a scousers of course. If Charlie can't up with pace he should fine new job!
ReplyDeleteRemind me, out of Spurs and Liverpool, who has finished mid-table in the past few seasons?
ReplyDeleteIf being the most successful team in the country decades ago is what matters, then clearly Preston are a massive team...
And it just about sums up the Liverpool mentality that racism is far less important than how many of yours fans turn up to a game in the USA...
Exacty! If Bale was injured i'd say Adam should apologise, but he wasnt, so why? And why does the apology always have to be public too, hes naff all wrong to me. The amount of Spurs fans with their knickers in a twist over this is unbelievable. Should watch basketball or another fairy sport where theres no contact. Curling!
ReplyDeleteLawro didn't call Bale a ladyboy, I did. It's a general term I regularly use to describe modern footballers. If you think it's an insult then fair enough. That doesn't change the comment policy though.
ReplyDeleteI think Bale's complaint was more that Adam has now hit him with extremely bad tackles four times - at least two of which resulted in a long-term injury for Bale (one of these was when Adam was at Blackpool). So, it's starting to look like a vendetta, especially when Adam does that in a friendly (where players are not meant to be hard tackling) and refuses to apologise.
ReplyDeleteHypocrite, I suppose I'll get banned now for pointing that out
ReplyDeleteYou think 'pampered ladyboy' is a major insult? Anyway, the article is not a comment; the comment policy applies to comments only.
ReplyDeleteYeah but LFC players all wore T shirts supporting Suraez didn't they? more to the point 99% of LFC post I have seen still support Suraez, so however bad Bales is, it will never be as bad as Suraez or a racist.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I don't see that term in my comment above. Do you?
ReplyDeleteSo we should judge the tackle on the basis that Bale is relatively unhurt? Surely the intention from Adam should be taken into account and I'd guess it wasn't his intention to leave him unhurt. Liverpool's "style" has slipped and hopefully Rodgers can bring it back. That kind of football is long gone and old guard people like Lawrenson (& Daglish) need to realise that.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you Jayspur. 20 years ago Messi probably wouldnt have got into a top division team in the UK as it was so physical. The Vinny Jones' would have snapped him in half. Don't see why Bale whould have to take tackle like that just because he's strong, faster and better than nearly anyone else on the park. That's not the game anymore, so stop pretending it is to defend your players.
ReplyDeleteI dont think that Adam's tackle was THAT bad. But in the context that it was pre-season, he's just come back from injury, was nowhere near the ball, had no attempt to go for the ball and Adam was well beaten by Bale, the only explenation was that either he was frustrated and lashed out or he wanted to harm, or at least dent his fitness building up, which is exactly what pre-season is all about. Tackle like that have no place in pre-season, even if it was just a coincidence that it's his second go at Bale's ankle.
bunch of scouse cunts
ReplyDeleteBale wasnt picked by the Fa due to his bad back at the time and the uncertain return date due to it. Dont think Bale can be blamed for what was the FAs decision
ReplyDeleteObviously, I'm referring to his time at Chelsea, and I think I made that clear. Based on what happened whilst he was there, it seems reasonable to infer that AVB didn't have the respect of the players. Abramovich even blamed them for AVB getting the sack. There are some big egos at Spurs too, and I believe AVB will have similar problems.
ReplyDeleteWhy should Adam apologise that kind of tackle
ReplyDeleteHappens in every game, even in Sunday league
Football Bale needs to man up and so should the
Spurs fans who think Bale is being hard done by
For goodness sake.
I didn't defend Adam's tackle; it was a bad tackle, it just wasn't deserving of the public ridicule heaped upon him by Bale. LFC fans know how crap Adam is at tackling, but he's not deliberately malicious.
ReplyDeleteThe difference is, Adam has been doing it to Spurs' players since he was at Blackpool, there is history and Bale has a point; it's wrong to tackle in a way that might end a players career and it's wrong to tackle so hard in a friendly.
ReplyDeleteLawro has said something positive about Spurs, once, and I swear it really is only the once, the man is a biased idiot and is largely employed as he annoys people, really not somebody you should be proud of quoting.
Adam is nothing but a thug, and his 'aquisition' by Liverpool is an embaressment in itself.
If you take off your Red tinted specs,you may realise that Adam is not just a slow and therefore poor tackler,but a genuinely nasty bit of work. Last season nearly 80% of his tackles were fouls,and if a quick or skillfull player embarrasses him,he attempts to damage that player 9 times out of 10. Hard men of course,but jealous nasty bits of work ...no thanks.
ReplyDeleteTottenham fan here; no grudges on my part. Liverpool were amazing to watch in the Eighties when I was growing up and I've always admired your team because of the tradition of stylish football. That said, I honestly think
ReplyDeleteLawrenson's only saying this because he's a Liverpool legend.
This was a pre-season friendly and there was no need to make that tackle. It was late and dangerous and it isn't the first time that Adam has gone in late on Bale either so I can see why he might be feeling that Adam has done this on purpose. None of us are mind readers so to say its deliberate is wrong but the lack of apology on this and the previous occasions does seem odd because normal people apologise when they unintentionally hurt someone.
There is a principle in Talmud called the goring ox. If your otherwise placid ox gores another then if its happened only once then you can be forgiven because the ox acted out of character, assuming the x was provoked you are not liable for the damage. A second time and it can be still be up for debate whether your animal is aggressive, you are responsible for 50% of the damage. After a third time your Ox is considered a goring ox. Charlie Adam is a goring ox!
I think Lawro is right to tell Bale to get on with it but............ not only is Adams out of his depth at Liverpool, but his tackle was disgraceful. What's more he has previous having done Bale at WHL so I can understand Bale's reaction. In this game (a friendly!) his 'tackle' was at best awful and at worst an attempt to 'do' another player. Hopefully Liverpool will get rid because he is such a poor player.
ReplyDeleteAre you writing Lawro's biography or just feeling lonesome?
ReplyDeleteWould that be the same Mark Lawrenson that combs over his bald spot on match of the day. Man up, indeed.
ReplyDeleteDidn't think I'd see my comment appear. What's insults a Liverpool fan?
ReplyDelete"I'm not a Liverpool fan."
I defer to you ......you must have learnt more about insults than just about anyone......
ReplyDeleteWith respect, that 80% figure is nonsense. According to OPTA stats, Adam's tackling success rate was 71% last season. With that in mind, it's clearly impossible that 80% of his tackles were fouls (!)
ReplyDeleteYou literally have no idea about football, do you?
ReplyDelete"spurs are a small, mid table club" - "No noticeable fan base beyond London".. I'm sorry, but no doubt Liveprool are a bigger club, but from the above you clearly know absolutely nothing.
Spurs have a huge fan base worldwide, I think 11th highest turnover of any club worldwide. We have vast numbers of supporters worldwide. Even Bergkamp followed spurs because of Hoddle.
We were the first modern club to win the double and the first British club to win a european trophy. We also imported a brand of beautiful football to the UK which we had never seen before and revolutionised the game here (push & run football).
Maradonna played for spurs in a friendly, as well as having some of the first south american imports. Only in the last 10-15 years has any club beaten the number of FA cups we had won after winning it in 1991 (8th).
So, don't get me wrong, Liverpool are a huge club, but dont make out on past glories you are so great while trying to make out spurs have no history either.
I understand these tackles happen every Sunday, but why go in from behind in a preseason game?? Just saying...Play hard but yikes
ReplyDeleteall those scoucers ran from pool to usa ???? we have won european cups mate , get facts right and calm down ,calm down
ReplyDelete4th time, there is history, taking that into account, it looks malicious
ReplyDeleteJust feeling lonesome, I guess.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be the most moronic defence of a thug yet. What sort of idiot think that the standard of tackling in Sunday league football(no capital required)is or should be the same as the Premier League? The thought processes her are typical of the defenders of crude serial thugs. Wasn't it the great Shanks who disparaged the likes of Adams as "ale house brawlers" presumably some think he was being complimentary. Obviously a post from the lip without thinking it through!!
ReplyDeleteNo Jack, I proud to support my local team, regardless of fan base or whatever competition we are in. I leave the Big Time Charlie's stuff to you lot, surprised that someone as important as you has the time to reply to a irrelevant Spurs fan lol.
ReplyDeleteJust don't don't like racist's and their apologist's.
Scumpool always harping on about the past "when we were a BIG club" not now not ever again.
ReplyDeleteMid table hang on!! Where have Scumpool been the last two seasons, need I say anymore and where will you be come the end of the season. Well it won't be top four will it.
So you out numbered Spurs fans in the recent US Tour, that's because most of the Spurs fans are working and cannot get the time off!!!
i don't usually write in on the web but since it's a statement of fact to u about another person being insulted and i would probably get banned fron ur.... site. is it a statement of fact that anyone who disagrees with ur view on this matter would be banned and that u are probably not man and wise enough to run and regulate a site such as this ?
ReplyDeleteYou've got a personal insult in your own article!
ReplyDeleteLawro is a joke outside of Liverpool; probably is within Liverpool too!
ReplyDeleteThe reason the tackle was not standard for either the PL or for a friendly match, the reason these tackles don't happen "all the time", the reason that it's particularly nasty, is because it wasn't merely an attempt to stop Bale, it was a clear attempt to hurt him... again.
If you want to stop a player when he's past you through foul means, but not risk injuring him, you attempt a trip or a pull-back. The trip targets the non-standing leg, and tries to make it collide with the standing leg.
If you target the standing leg then slide and take him out at boot level, because at least the leg has somewhere to go. Target the standing leg at above ankle height and the leg has nowhere to go. It's typically under 80 Kg of load, and if the studs grip the only thing left to go is the joint/ligaments or the bones themselves. If you go for the standing leg you've a good chance (and I mean good) of causing a serious injury.
For this reason players, be they pub-team level or PL pros, do not usually make these kinds of tackles. Adam chose to do this, and not for the first time in his career. And on previous occasions he has caused serious injury. Adam knew what he was doing, just as you or I would if we did it in the park on Sunday. These are the tackles that cause fights in the Sunday League, and outrage at pro level.
Adam should be condemned by Lawro, though it's no surprise once more the Liverpool family can see no ill in one of their own, and choose instead to blame everyone else.
Lawrenson wouldnt understand getting kicked , he never had a drop of the skills Bale has , plus he was the one doing the kicking
ReplyDeleteThat is supposed to be a GIF - so should show the whole tackle.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrUVRB78WxA
hehe class
ReplyDeleteIt does appear so, I note that my comment about the moderators hypocrysy seems to have be removed!
ReplyDeleteWooa!? Spurs fans on a rampage! Calm the hell down.
ReplyDeleteIt was a reckless tackle in a friendly match. Adam is a slow ox of a player with not the best timing for tackles and has a history with Gareth Bale.
On the other hand is Gareth Bale is prone to falling easy and to whine a lot. To publicly whine about this and demand an apology is just a little bit pathetic. Don't know many players in the EPL doing the same.
Including Glen Johnston who is a massive racist.
ReplyDeleteJohnson .. ahem
ReplyDeleteOh and on the other hand. To refer to the Suarez incident, judge LFC as club and it's supporters to be racists in comments on this article is kinda lame.
ReplyDeleteHave you actually watched it? And I don't mean in real time. In real time, my initial reaction was that it was clumsy but innocuous. Then I saw a replay of it, in real time from Bale's left, in slow-mo close-up from Bale's left, and in slow-mo close-up from Bales right.
ReplyDeleteIn real time, again, I thought it looked clumsy but innocuous. In slow-mo close-up from Bale's left I thought it looked a bit mroe painful, but still hard to call intent. But in slow-mo close-up from Bale's right you can actually see that the ball is long gone, he hooks his leg inwards towards Bale, rakes his studs down the inside of his calf and then pushes down on his ankle. It was ugly and potentially career threatening.
But, there again, when he played for Blackpool, he stamped on Bale's ankle (the same ankle), and you can see that the ball is nowhere near, that he specifically looks down at Bale's ankle and then stamps - who ever, at any time stamps on a football in a game of football? The only purpose of it can be to cause damage.
We are not talking about players being clattered or being swept along with the ball. We are talking about stamping on the ankle of a standing leg where the intent seems to be to hurt the opponent and not the player.
Perhaps we could replicate these 'tackles' on Mark and see how he feels about it - and this isn't even at the start of his playing career.
I have just lost what little respect I retained for him.
What so if person A(dam) through recklessness puts person B(ale) at risk of serious injury but B(ale) escapes harm through good fortune A(dam) shouldn't be held responsible?
ReplyDeleteAre you sure you meant to say that?
Lets try a different scenario, A man is driving along a busy street, as he looks down to change the radio station another man, unaware that the driver is distracted, begins to cross the road, he anticipates being seen and the driver slowing down. He sprints the last few metres to avoid the onrushing car and suffers minor injuries as a result. Is the driver responsible? Should he not at least apologise for his carelessness?
The fact that Bale emerged unscathed doesn't make the tackle any less dangerous
The thing is do you honestly believe that Football is a contact sport anymore??I mean come on,seriously??
ReplyDeleteThis was the third time that "hollywood pass" has done this to Bale and the fact this last one wasn't needed and was a friendly,that Bale isn't injured is immaterial as it seems to me and many that Adam did try to hurt Bale.
wat
ReplyDeletestill wore the T shirt blindly supporting Suarez. Perhaps he wasn't man enough to stand up for what he believed. Bale was, and you don't like it. Perhaps if Gerard was tackled dangerously a second time by a player who had injured him previously you would think differently rather than blindly standing behind another Liverpool player in the wrong.
ReplyDeleteadam is a liability. he regularly gives possession and free kicks away. he should not be playing for LFC.
ReplyDeleteIt was a ruddy preseason friendly for chrisake Adams was the one looking stupid. If there was no intent why chop somebody. It was a miracle Bale got away unscathed. Liverpool manager should hand Adams a fine for making lfc look like a bunch of animals in the us media. Bale has more talent in his swollen ankle than Lawro ever had. Adams just kicks people for money.
ReplyDeleteCome on Jack that's a kiddies argument.I love the fact that the whole world doesn't support us.Supporting Man ure and your lot must be so unsatisfying as you lot are expected to win.So what if you have kids and idiots in Cornwall and Surrey who support you??who cares?? Tell me is that why you followed the bindippers then because they were always winning,or do you actually have a vested in the club,or are you just happy to shout how big Liverpool are?
ReplyDeleteDo you brag about the size of your car or your house in the same way??if you are you're most likely avoided bud aren't you??:)
ha ha tottenham hotscums , keep finishing 4th or 5th and win nothing ,you cannot compare the two teams , hotscums keep doing what you do best win nothing , not even the biggest team in london ,keep wearing your joe bloggs and drinking shandy
ReplyDeletemr kanwah doesn't like any criticism of him - have you not noticed tet?
ReplyDeleteIf pampered ladyboy a statement of fact, cite your evidence - assuming you know what a ladyboy is?
ReplyDeletewuss!
ReplyDeleteMark Lawreson Who?? are you having a laugh you plum!
ReplyDeleteHonours:
Liverpool F.C.
Football League Championship (5): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1988FA Cup: 1986European Cup: 1984League Cup (3): 1982, 1983 and 1984
No current Spurs player or future player come to think of it, will get near this tally of Victories.
AVB arrrh never mind! Someone who sounds like an anti-virus software really has not got a prayer.
who the ****'s Hoddle?
ReplyDeleteWill this post be deleted as offensive? Or are pro-Liverpool offensive posts alright?
ReplyDeletethe reason spurs have repeatedly commented on it is because they have been repeatedly asked about. The media ask a question spurs and bale give an honest answer. The over the top reactions that I have seen have largely come from fans who seem to like dishing out criticism to Gareth bale and spurs. As for Charlie Adam, he is a nasty player the tackle which was of questionable integrity in the sense that the game was pre-season and the only aim is fitness. Points are not won or lost so to endanger a fellow professionals fitness with a challenge that had no chance of winning the ball in order to win a friendly seems reckless. It also says a lot about the quality of liverpool that they were trying hard to beat spurs in a pre-season friendly even resorting to cheating and still looked second rate in comparison (hence the cheating) to spurs who looked like they were not even getting out of first gear.
ReplyDeleteJaimee K, i have 3 degrees but i wont bother wasting my time with an intelligent answer. WHY? Because you are a stupid super PUSS with half a brain !!! And enjoy watching our backsides for the next 100 years.
ReplyDeleteThxs for the history lesson......
ReplyDeleteGood luck in your big European game away to Gormel tonight lol.
Liverpool relegation candidates 2012/2013.
ReplyDeleteSince when has a deliberate attempt to injure a player become clumsy? When he fails?
ReplyDeleteLiverpool a mid table team.
ReplyDeleteStandard LFC point of view. Never your fault is it?
ReplyDeleteMe thinks Iamtheborg doth protest too much
ReplyDeleteThere is no need to directly articulate the statement, you referred to it which implies the same meaning. Anyone with average intelligence would see that there is no difference between the two and would affirm your claim as a personal insult. (NOTE: According to your logic my above comment is not a personal insult directed towards you. However, one could imply that my reference towards "anyone with average intelligence" would be an insult to a person (such as yourself), that failed to recognize the correlation between statement and implied statement in the opening of my comment, alluding to a below average intelligence. This assertion stands as an implication and therefore does not hold as a personal insult according to the set standard.
ReplyDeleteYour in the same cup are you not? Better get used to it, no champs league for you next season either.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can add to your 2 Ueafa cups. What a history Spurs have
and your ref to legend is a polite way of saying sad old git who has been reduced to that key indicator of a sad old git, in my day. yep, in your day lawro there was no internet and players in your day are the source of the dna that causes english football to be so bad compared with eg spain. adams wd be laughed of the field in spain, he should go back to scotland where the football is still twenty years behind england whic is another 20 behind the continent
ReplyDeleteWhere do you want me to mark these words then??Is it just me or do you want everyone to remember your words??
ReplyDeleteI would say to you is make your own opinions and stop rehashing the words from the media or words that may or may not have come from Chelsea player's.
Every managerial appointment can be risky,however would rather a new tactically aware coach at the lane than an old self serving dinosaur that is Redknapp.
We shall see if your observations come to fruition however if they don't,will you be so forthcoming with your opinions next time??
There are some real asreholes in this world, with some really stupid comments however, as a Spurs fan, I have to agree with what Lawrenson had to say purely because the vast majority of todays players wouldnt survive with the tackles that flew about in years gone bye. These days, you just have to look at a player hard enough, he goes down and either a free kick or penalty is given against you. Arsenal had such a player in Robert Pirez. You just had to pretend to tackle and he would con the ref and get apenalty. Ranaldo took it to another level at Manure and is right at home in Spain. Bale hs been done 2 years ago by Adam and he does come in for some rough treatment buthe is more than big enough to dish it out as well and I wish he did. Someone is going to give it to Adam one day and I bet the Scousers will all be up in arms, that is if he's still with them.
ReplyDeleteagreed, completley immaterial whether injured or not. if i take a gun and shoot at someone but am a bad shot and just graze their ear it does not mean that i shd not be dealt with. he was sent off last year for two horror tackles at spurs, one on bale, and the year before put bale out for three months with a truly horrible tackle that can be seen on the internet. the fact is that bale has gone down easily a few times and that is whatnon-spurs fans recall. spurs fans recall the appalling behaviour of thug adams toward bale. hence the two sets of opinions seem not to understand the view of the other. thicko lawro should as a commentator be aware of the history and should not embarrass himself with the "in my day" granddad crap
ReplyDeleteOr maybe AVB has jumped right to the defense of his player and has shown his players he has pride in them and that will command their respect.
ReplyDeleteBale is his own man and in no way has made a "fool" of himself, he has every right to be upset after Adams set out to hurt him last time ( thats without doubt ) he has every right to feel it was the same this time.
Its unreal Pool supporters can say they all know Adams can not tackle then defend him FFS he gets paid to tackle if he can not then is he really fit to be a football player ?
Utter rubbish. Lawro is a hypocrite, if that had been Barton on a liverpool player he'd be slagging him off. The fact that Bale wasn't injured, this time, has nothing to do with it. It was the intent, the same intent used the last time when he did injure him. Bale has every right to moan, it's the same player trying to do the same thing. Bale's just lucky it didn't put him out of the game again. "made THFC look stupid"? why's that? It's not as if the entire squad wore a T-shirt sticking up for him, like a team did in support of someone who used racist language towards another player is it. Why do liverpool fans always list past glories and try to use them as an argument winner? I love the way the Mod' said anyone insulting others will be banned, yet it's ok for liverpool fans to insult tottenham and Bale? Another hypocrite, must have gone to the Lawro school of morals. Jack, are you five years old or something? WTF does any of that garb' have to do with anything? I dunno, people try and have a decent discussion and all they get is "ooh we have more fans than you" "urrghh try winning a Cl" FFS child!!! Oh and ban me if you want, i couldn't give a flying one and i won't return to this small minded little page as it's for retards who support a former decent team that now lives in mid table below Everton.
ReplyDeleteWould you honestly not be annoyed if the same player that put you out for 3 months did the same thing in a pre season friendly?
ReplyDeleteTypical Scousers; and yet another poor tackle by Adam on Bale. I think Bale has every right to feel angry and how Lawrenson can accuse Bale of being childish when he's twice been a victim of a poor tackle by this idiot, is beyond me. Adam is the one in the wrong here; remember - this was a friendly game, not a competitive match, and if it had been a serious injury, I can imagine the wall of silence would have remained in place at Anfield... Liverpool FC are not the best at dealing with these kinds of situations in recent years -you only have to look at the disgraceful antics of Suarez last season, and yet his then manager wouldn't do anything to condemn what he had done. Good for you, Gareth - and as for Lawrenson, he's just a washed up old has been, who's clutching at straws... a bit like his old club.
ReplyDeleteI cant wait till you guys come to the lane get beat AGAIN and then go back on sites like these giving us history lessons about shakespeare and how Liverpool once used to be good.
ReplyDeleteWe are better than you, every fan in the country will tell you that, even the honest Liverpudlian ones
Nah fuck off Lawro, and fuck off Chubby Adam
ReplyDeleteYou can tell no work gets done in Liverpool. They are all on here telling us how good Liverpool were when television was in black and white. Get off this site and get a job. We will finish above you again this season by the way.
ReplyDelete'Jamimi K' if you wana take your sloppy mouth off of Charlie 'waste of money' Adams cock for a second....maybe your head wouldnt be to full of dirty spunk for you to simply understand, liverpool are not as good as Tottenham right now, an neither do they have a player anywhere near Bales ability....hence shit players like Adam haveing to foul the like of Bale to compete, and your stupid liverpool favoured attack on Bale. GET REAL, MONEY WASTERS
ReplyDeleteThe problem is this Bully Boy Adams has previous for Blackpool energised team and when Adams signed he deemed he had to do extra training to compete at Liverpool with a Blackpool Boxer. The reason Adams did this was he is slow and played above his normal standard when Rangers let him go for 500,ooo and this is why when he sees talent he tries to kick it . He has previous Blackpool Bale was out for 3 months then he got sent of for leaving his studs in someone's leg he thinks he is Sunese and Liverpool will sell him.
ReplyDeletedo you rate as an 'anyone'?
ReplyDeletebale is just a wana be c.ronaldo, spends half the time diving at the nearest touch, good top player, but hugely over hyped by the media.
ReplyDeletewill regret signing new deal at spurs.
avb still has a cob on after being made look stupid at chelsea,
adam just clumsy and slow thats all.
suarez gets kicked twice as much
how could someone like you ever be lonesome?
ReplyDeleteyeah you keep drawing giros and talking about the cavern.......you are all dead but don't know it re the The Sixth Sense
ReplyDeleteAdams plan didnt workout,
ReplyDeleteLawro is a nobjockey so he can go and do one. Adam kicks lumps out of people, Bale falls over. Someone tell me something I don't know. I'd like to know what Suarez thinks about players diving.
ReplyDeleteLawro is just trying to pass the buck, Adams Plan didnt workout. same As Souness on Hoddle. best player out for 6 months, less points they will earn. Football is a big business, ask Vito, or Micheal, Sonny, Fred, even Tom know, Football is a business, one great big fucken family business capeechi
ReplyDeletelol seeing as u liverfool mugs are owned by yanks, no wonder u got lots of fake fans over there who gives a toss. You keep watching your glory days of barnes and beardsley on betamax.
ReplyDeleteMurders.... Juve juve
ReplyDeleteAll hail to the Lions of Gomelt
ReplyDeleteyes i was anfield when your south americans made their debuts,seven nil !!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteso what if it does, we will just have to replace him if things dont go well, but we are taking a gamble on him now, and he could be our wenger, you dont get nowhere, without taking a chance on a manager, but i think he will do fine.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for the so called fair tackle from the coward adam, let me tell you this, i saw it in real time, and you are right it did look like a run of the mill tackle, but then i saw it in slow motion close up, and thats when you see it was a deliberate stamp down on his ankle, bending it over at an extreme angle, and more times than not, these tackles dont end well, which adam was hoping for, but bale thankfully got over it, the ball was nowhere near, and when you see the picture doing the rounds, it shows adam looking down at bales ankle, and targeting it, lawro does not know what he is talking about, and how he is a tv pundit, i will never know, check out everything i have mentioned , and you may change your mind.
better then finishing behind everton haha
ReplyDeleteAdam just isn't good enough to play for club as big as Liverpool, decent player on his day and looked good in an otherwise Championship side in Blackpool. Anyway, hard tackles are fine but dangerous ones aren't thank you 'Lawro'! People also used to have naff facial hair too in the old days, and some people have only just gotten rid of it, eh?
ReplyDeleteI'd be pretty miffed if the same player that put me out for 3 months for a lunatic lunge in the league then decides to try and amputate my foot in a 'FRIENDLY' not 18 months later!! Bale was lucky to be unharmed, it was an instant red too and would have been all day long in the Prem. Stop defending this sub-standard football from a sub-standard player for Liverpool or Spurs' standards. Comolli and Kenny paid over 7m for that dross... No wonder they both got the boot!!
Quite the opposite. Most neutrals have criticised Adams deliberate attempt to injure a player in a a meaningless pre-season and suggested that flair players rightly need protection from this type if thuggery.
ReplyDeletemmmmmm Spurs are a small club are we, i went to anfield with a very small fourth division club in a league cup game to see that, there were more of them than you, they out sang you (even singing "can you hear the kop sing no nooo)...............
ReplyDeleteyour just a mid-table club living on past glories..............
All these glory hunting plastic Liverpool fans. Let me guess, most of you born between 1975 and 89. I can hear you all now "supported Liverpool since i was a boy". You mean when Liverpool were the biggest club in the world and you all jumped straight on the boat. Tragic!! As for Adam, his lack of pace and mobility made him lunge at Bale as he skipped past him. He makes Scholes look like Maldini in the tackle. Think you are all just frustrated at another 8m wasted on another average player.
ReplyDeletewhy will he regret signing a long deal at spurs, he loves our club, just like gerard loves your club, and have you seen what is going on at spurs, our new training complex is second to none, and we have a new state of the art stadium being built, check it out on the websites, its fantastic, we have money, but we dont like to waste it, like the sugardaddy clubs, there is a big deal happening sometime for spurs, which will elevate our spending, if need be, and ffp rules are coming in soon, and the sugardaddy clubs, have to be very wary, because they dont believe they can be touched, and will get round the new rules, but from what i have read, uefa are well aware of people saying it wont work, but for uefa it has to work, otherwise they will be a laughing stock, and they cannot allow this to happen, for their credibility.
ReplyDeleteThey have everything in place to enforce these new ffp rules, the best lawyers, and the backing of nearly all the football teams, and as was stated in an article, when it was mentioned that, they cant stop teams playing in the champions league, the answer was simple, yes we can, its our competition, which is totally right.
And spurs, will prosper further if they do get the ffp rules working, we have always been called a sleeping giant football club, but now the sleeping giant is waking up, and bale knows this, thats why he will stay at spurs.
on a side issue. we beat gomel. but brodgers saying that "It will take time until Liverpool start playing the way Swansea did last season (tactically)," !! LFC aspiring to play like swansea! shouldn't we be aiming higher than swansea!? tactically we did ok last season, it was just a q of putting it in the net!
ReplyDeleteLOL, m8 you beat us once because we had 9 men,second time we played you. You was defensive. Had scott parker saving you loads. This season no adebayor? And maybe not modric. But you have one guy bale. Block him off then your nothing...
ReplyDeleteHave u seen the tackle, and Adams response to it? This was not mis-timed but a deliberate attempt by Adams to make a mark on Bale. He definitely, despises the guy. The only thing that is worse, is pool fans, brushing over Adams disgraceful attempt to inflict pain on Bale, and this after what he did to him- 3 months lay off all down to an outrageous & blatant attack(not tackle) by Adams on Bale.
ReplyDeleteAdam tackle was very clumsy but you see this week in and week out in football. Bale is a drama queen,he goes over easily (moans like a baby) he was "injured" twice YET spurs played him? If he "injured" why play him? Oh yeh they need him to win games... Poor team. Arsenal have RVP. Spurs have bale. If bales out for a few months spurs would struggle fact. Like we struggled without lucas,gerrard,suarez last season.. Spurs fan can go on all they want but only a few of them are good players.. Bale,VDV. With no adebayor their. They haven't got a good strikers. Who clinical.. Top 4 goner be intresting next season who gets a place. Borini looked good tho today so did sterling. What a goal by downing should do more tho tbh.
ReplyDeleteSiggy ha
ReplyDeleteThat backfired lol.. Spurs same cup as liverpool..lol
ReplyDeleteAha so they finished above us? Who cares.how many times have arsenal been ahead of you?:)
ReplyDeletelmfao, at the same time I hear heaps of spurs fans now trying to boast they are a bigger club than liverpool.
ReplyDeleteHypocrite. If Sandro did the same on Suarez he will be calling for a ban.
ReplyDeletei'm a liverpool supporter but i have to say both of adam's tackles on bale are over the line. after doing bale once, i think we could all understand bale being upset because it was a friendly and adam went in half way up the calf, late, with his studs out. it was a dirty tackle.
ReplyDeletethat said, bale should put it behind him and move on and avb should just stay out of it.
Adam tried to do Bale.
ReplyDeleteJust like he did before. Whatever problem Adam has with Bale he thinks it's acceptable to try to break his ankle - maybe Bale feigned injury or simulated in the Spurs v Blackpool game.
Don't allow blind loyalty to cloud your judgement. Adam was never going to win the ball, and could simply have tripped Bale, but he attempted to inflict serious injury because he knew he could get away with it in a friendly.
Pure luck that Bale was ok.
I'm a big fan of Adam, but that was just nasty.
From what I saw of the tackle Charlie Adam tried to clip Bales heel (he even got that wrong!!) and caught his ankle.....slightly. Bale behaved like his ankles are made of the same substance as Amir Khans chin. If ever a man wanted retribution and a fellow pro to get sent of it was in Bales moments of writhing.
ReplyDeleteThat said....Charlie boy......Youtube and match of the day make you look like a world beater. PSSSSSSSssst We know different.
if scott parker had of made that tacke on king stevie g in that friendly the article would have been much different. I travelled from philly to watch it to see my spurs players and the few young northern irish men liverpool signed and I must admit charlie adam was all over the place my best friend is a liverpool fan an even he was embarressed as it was a warm up game
ReplyDeleteDark days for Liverpool fans. They're clawing at the walls that are falling in all around them. It's understandable why so many scouse are so incredibly bitter, particularly towards Spurs. We've finished above them 3 years running whilst playing far more attractive and entertaining footy. I prefer Lpool in the top 4 over Arsenal and Chelsea, but perhaps finishing above Everton is a more realistic target for next season.
ReplyDeleteAdam is a slow and dirty player, he is not fast enough to do the job in midfield, gets frustrated that players beat him and leave him for dead, tripping them up is his only answer and he is not fast enough for that and ends up injuring them.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised at Liverpool fans defending him, he is too slow for the way Rogers wants the team to play and is also slow in his reading of the game.
His only saving grace is once or twice in a game he sees a good pass and has the quality to complete it.
Get rid Liverpool he is a disgrace.
Bale beat him. Easily. Adam raked his studs down his ankle. In a friendly ffs. Wasn't a "man" challenge at all. Pure dirty, bitch challenge. Watch it. Dirty jealous player Adam that's a fact.
ReplyDeleteYou had nine men through your own doing fella.
ReplyDeleteIn football, tackles fly in and out all the time. Its part and parcel of the game. Of course, I don't condone dangerous tackles that would threaten a players career or life. In the midst of the game, a player would not be able to go through a series of mental thoughts to decide whether he should tackle this way or that way. It all happens at the spur of the moment and in a fraction of a second. By the way, I have seen Adam made tackles similar to that in other EPL games last season and in at least 1 instance, he was red carded.
ReplyDeleteWhether rightly or wrongly, AVB and Bale should just move on and not start making a series of comments and accusations that really makes them look childish and sadly, reflects on their level of intelligence. Look, AVB made an initial comment and he emphatically made his point. So there is really no point in following up with accusations of cowardly acts and demands for apologies and other comments. And if Adam chose not to apologize, so be it. But is there a need to apologize. I am glad Adam did not come out comment on the matter as it would aggravate the issue further.
Its just like 1 boxer telling his opposing boxer not to land a reckless punch! Just as a punch is part of boxing, tackles are part of the football game. If a player can't take the tackles, then he should consider some other games like maybe chess, tennis, golf or just stick with sight seeing.
During Lawro's time, the tackles really shackles a players and they come flying in from left, right, centre and back. The rules of the game nowadays have changed so much that it protects the players like no tackling from behind, no 2 footed challenges and so on and so forth. So, I really don't understand why some highly paid professional footballers and managers are still whining.
Adam stayed silent? Yup, he had his agent come to his defense. Cuz that what a hard man does, yeah? Bale is supposed to happy a talentless hump like Adam threatens his career a second time, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying the Liverpool responses, which seem to think Bale is the bad guy for getting kicked by that rib-roast Adam. Reminds me of the Stoke idiots who boo Ramsey for daring to get his leg snapped by Shawcross.
ReplyDeleteJust wanna say I live in Thailand and a ladyboy would kick Bale's ass for talking too much.
ReplyDeleteThis is Football. You get hacked, bruised and beaten. If a footballer keeps moaning about decisions and bad tackles go play volleyball. (no disrespect to the sport) What we have as modern footballers are pussies and managers jumping on the bandwagon.
ReplyDelete"AVB should've set an example for his players and shown a bit of dignity."
ReplyDeleteAs Daglish did last year LOL. T-shirts for Suarez anyone?
What is it with Liverpool fans and their victim mentality? If this had happened to one of your players you woul dbe up in arms about it. As a Spurs fan, I can accept that we have had thugs play for us in the past - Alan Hutton and Ben Thatcher for example. I would always condemn their behaviour, why can't you with a thug like Adam?
"I don’t buy the Tottenham complaints that suggest Adam has been deliberately targeting Bale in recent years. Yes, the tackle wasn’t good but I don’t think it was malicious, and now it appears Bale will be fine."
ReplyDeleteThese two sentences are totally unrelated. Well done Lawro.
I'm guessing he didn't see the Blackpool game where Adam hacked Bale down the first time. Looks like targeting when it happens a second time.
And why are Liverpool fans having a go at Bale when Gerrard became famous for diving and the like a few years before Bale did. I remember Gerrard going down rather easy when his team were minutes away from defeat in a tournament. Doesn't matter when you do it, it's still not in the spirit of the game. Sort your own house first guys!
I am amazed to see there are more spurs fan on this site than Liverpool fans.
ReplyDeleteHe maybe a highly decorated player but what a terrible journo. When suarez knocked the ball round a gb defender with his hand to get in on goal the Lawro response was "he slipped"! He just cant see anything wrong with anything connected to LFC. Although it may not have been malicious Adam is technically one of the worst tacklers in the prem and it doesnt matter how many scousers (mostly scandanavians/from the shires) trot out their trophy list the fact of the matter is that he -and most of their first team squad are well below top 4 standard.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely typical, you keep reading your list of trophies instead of worrying about your first team squad being full to the brim of sub standard players! Instead of worry about current spurs players matching the history lfc (PAST)you, your manager and your board should be concerned about the amount of lfc players who would get into the starting line up of the top 4 (PRESENT). This is a true reflection of where your club is right now.
ReplyDeletehahahahahahahaha and there are players of adams standard in the sunday league too.
ReplyDeleteJeezus all liverpool fans do is bang on about history. Snoore off trekkie
ReplyDeleteWow! and this coming from a guy who had to give up the game early due to knee injuries. Even in 'Lawros day' if a fellow professional deliberately played the man in a friendly he would have been lambasted and rightly so. Charlie Adam is a thug - he is a clumsy cart-horse who doesn't care who he crocks and who deliberately sets out to do so. He has played twice at White Hart Lane and in both games what I saw was atrocious .. two very bad tackles on Bale the second of which put him out of the game. The Liverpool match was equally bad - Adam sent off for what can only be described as an assault on Modric. Given that background any right-minded person would understand why Bale should 'make a fuss'. Football is his livelihood and every player who steps out onto the pitch is one bad tackle or injury away from losing everything ... Lawrenson really does let himself down with ill thought out comments that on reflection he should be ashamed of.
ReplyDeleteyeah, except Spurs are already in the competition not playing a qualifying round against a similarly (to Liverpool) mediocre team
ReplyDeleteMark Lawrenson should keep his nose out of it, he says Bale wouldn't have lasted in his day, but would he have even been a pro footballer if born in these days. The game is so fast now and the boots so lightweight (made for speed) as well as the pro's being proper athletes with a lot of strength behind them that there is no place for potentially career threatening tackles like that. He was no where near the ball and came crunching down on Bales standing leg, is it any wonder Bale is upset after Adam tore his ankle ligaments playing for Blackpool the other year with a similarly bad challenge. It's only luck that didn't see him injured more seriously this year. Regardless of what Lowro says, the rules ARE different these days to what they were 60 odd years ago when he was in his "cough" prime and players must abide by them. If Adam put in a challenge like that on me on a Saturday afternoon I'd likely knock what few teeth he has left out of his head, then again I haven't got to worry about being fined a weeks wages!!
ReplyDeletereal liverpool fans care, maybe your just a weekend fan if you dont care about that :)
ReplyDeleteWhen you get a history, perhaps you can do the same, won't be happening under avb, we'll see where both clubs are in 5 years. Spurs will probably be through another 4 managers by then!
ReplyDeleteTo be fair that's a good % of tackles won. But I wonder if they counted his lashing out once a player was past him as an attempt at a tackle or just left it out of the stats. He does it at least once a game from what I've seen of him, not always as bad as the couple on bale but he does do it. Whether as a trip or a clattering in seems to me he doesn't like a player getting past him.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHHA keep living in the past mate, your present is a first team squad that contains 2-3 (including suarez although i personally wouldnt want him anywhere near my club)players good enough for the top 4.
ReplyDeleteyou was a pro footballer, i'm shocked you're defending (ADAMS) he probably isn't a coward , But he's definitely a (DIRTY) fouling (B*****d) and you can't accept his reasons for dirty tackling. mark lawrence you suprise me the child is adams ,kicking out with malice. should of been me, he would of got a fat lip.
ReplyDeleteLawro is an embarassment. 'Wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes when he was playing' basically sums it up. He thinks kicking people is what football should be about. Regardless of who you support, mindless fouling is not a positive part of the game and anyone like Adam who has a track record for this kind of thing deserves to be publically pulled up on it.
ReplyDeleteThere is a very good reson he looked good for Blackpool and if the FA and Ukad did there job he would be playing in the conference. ?
ReplyDeleteErm 2010-2011 season we beat you 2-1 at the lane and then 2-0 at anfield .... last season spanked you 4-0 at the labe then 0-0 at anfiled .... maybe is your "35 million" striker could actually score you might not have finished behind Everton, and most importantly in maybe finished in the top 4. which i might add is now how many years since you was in the top 4? .... fix up you muppet
ReplyDeleteDIDNT LIVERPOOL FINISH BEHIND EVERTON? ... AND IF CHARLIE ADAMS ISNT "THAT SORT OF PLAYER" HOW DID HE PUT BALE OUT FOR 3 MONTHS WITH ANKLE LIGAMENT DAMAGE? ... BY DOING THE SAME THING HE DID THE OTHER DAY. IF YOU GET MUGGED OFF BY BALE TAKE IT ON THE CHIN YOU UGLY FAT S**T
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