Media balls: West Ham hard done by as Spurs trip over the line
Media Balls: a look at biased football reporting in Tottenham’s 3-2 victory over West Hm United in the Premier League.
This is how the Tottenham Hotspur website described the deciding goal, a penalty strike by Harry Kane:
Hammers substitute Harvard Nordtveit tripped Son in the area and the referee again pointed to the spot.
The BBC sees not a clear trip but a dash of the dark arts:
[Son was] smart enough to invite a wild challenge from fellow substitute Nordtveit, cutting inside and leaving his standing leg invitingly in the path of the defender’s needless lunge
The Newham Recorder (in West Ham’s manor):
Havard Nordtveit – on for Payet – was harshly adjudged to have brought down Son as the two jinked and jostled in the area
West Ham sub Havard Nordviet clumsily brought down Heung-Min Son, giving Mike Dean no option but to award the second penalty of the afternoon
No opinion or harsh? Having dealt with the last goal, the game’s first penalty, one awarded to West Ham, is couched in caveats.
The Tottenham website: “Janssen was adjudged to have pulled down Reid in the area at a West Ham corner”
The Newham Recorder: “Janssen dragged down Reid”
Such are the facts.
Posted: 20th, November 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
