{"id":297010,"date":"2023-12-16T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=297010"},"modified":"2023-12-16T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:24:14","slug":"neville-accuses-spurs-players-of-stupidity-after-bissouma-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/neville-accuses-spurs-players-of-stupidity-after-bissouma-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville accuses Spurs players of &apos;STUPIDITY&apos;\u00a0after  Bissouma dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Gary Neville accuses Tottenham players of &#8216;STUPIDITY&#8217;\u00a0after Yves Bissouma was sent off with a straight red in 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest and warns they &#8216;will drop points&#8217;&#8230; as Spurs have league&#8217;s WORST discipline<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yves Bissouma&#8217;s silly dismissal was Spurs&#8217; fourth of the season &#8211; and his second\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They suffered when down to nine men vs Chelsea and Neville has warned them<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;There&#8217;s no bigger waste of time!&#8217; What is the point of the Club World Cup? It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gary Neville has warned that Tottenham will sacrifice points if they persist with their &#8216;reckless&#8217; challenges, despite their 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yves Bissouma was given a straight red card for a thoughtless foul on Ryan Yates with Spurs 2-0 up and will miss the next three games as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was dismissed for the second time this season after a VAR check caught his boot scraping Yates&#8217; shin as he wildly mistimed a challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are now bottom of the Premier League&#8217;s fair play table &#8211; with a disciplinary record more than twice as bad as Arsenal&#8217;s &#8211; and Neville accused them of &#8216;madness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky Sports: &#8216;We&#8217;ve not seen these for years, these types of challenges. These have got to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79025269-0-image-a-143_1702687318120.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville warned that Tottenham will drop points if they continue with &#8216;reckless&#8217; fouls<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79021595-0-Yves_Bissouma_was_sent_off_for_this_dangerous_challenge_on_Notti-a-144_1702687430752.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Yves Bissouma was sent off for this dangerous challenge on Nottingham Forest&#8217;s Ryan Yates<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s a straight red, banned for three games, and absolutely, I&#8217;ve got no sympathy whatsoever. They don&#8217;t exist anymore [these challenges]. They were outlawed 10 or 15 years ago! They seem to have come back in in this last month or two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re so talented, these players, [Cristian] Romero, [Destiny] Udogie, probably a couple more that I could name. They&#8217;re so talented and [it&#8217;s] so important to Spurs that they&#8217;re available and they&#8217;re fit and in the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For them to lose them constantly through all this&#8230; look, I got sent off two or three times in my career and made some mistakes. But these are getting sent off two or three times a season, some of these players, and it&#8217;s the same players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;ve got to stop it because they&#8217;re going to cost Tottenham. Spurs will drop points without these players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If they&#8217;re injured, you can&#8217;t do anything about it. But if they&#8217;re continually being rash and reckless with these challenges, it becomes stupidity, it&#8217;s madness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I bet he&#8217;s angry inside. I bet the Spurs fans are angry.\u00a0I&#8217;m a little bit angry because I&#8217;ve not watched a team play football for a few years that have excited me as much as this team in terms of knowing that I&#8217;m going to get a good game of football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;ve got to stop those little bits of ill-discipline. I accept that it&#8217;s commitment but they just seem to do it regularly. They have got to stop it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79021589-0-Match_referee_Jarred_Gillett_reviewed_the_foul_on_a_pitchside_mo-a-145_1702687461550.jpg\" height=\"438\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Referee Jarred Gillett reviewed the foul on a pitchside monitor before brandishing a red card<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79021569-0-Bissouma_s_red_card_was_his_second_and_Tottenham_s_fourth_of_the-a-146_1702687489123.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bissouma&#8217;s red card was his second and Tottenham&#8217;s fourth of the Premier League season<\/p>\n<p>Romero and Udogie were sent off in Tottenham&#8217;s horror 4-1 defeat at home to Chelsea in November.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer converted the penalty after Romero&#8217;s foul to make it 1-1 and Nicolas Jackson scored a late hat-trick as Spurs struggled with nine men after Udogie&#8217;s dismissal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Bissouma&#8217;s sending-offs, that makes four dismissals for Tottenham in the league this season &#8211; the Premier League&#8217;s joint-worst record with Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Bissoum&#8217;s was first given his marching orders this season against Luton, when he earned a second yellow card for diving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s side have also racked up a whopping 44 yellow cards, a total only exceeded by Sheffield United and Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quizzed about the foul and his team&#8217;s poor discipline after the match, Postecoglou said:\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;I haven&#8217;t seen it, but I&#8217;m assuming they slowed it down and saw it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79023061-0-Jamie_Carragher_hailed_VAR_for_being_at_its_best_after_the_red_c-a-147_1702687677076.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Carragher hailed VAR for being at its &#8216;best&#8217; after the red card was shown to Bissouma<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/00\/79025559-0-image-a-148_1702687704246.jpg\" height=\"406\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou said that discipline is &#8216;something we talk about constantly&#8217; at Spurs\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah, it&#8217;s been a little bit of an issue. It&#8217;s a fine line with those things. The players are aware they don&#8217;t want to miss games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And the trepidation they put in the players, I think today was more of a desperation than something nasty and we&#8217;ve we&#8217;ve had to deal with that a few times this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t go on doing it like that, because eventually we&#8217;ll pay a price for it [like] when we did against Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So it&#8217;s something we talk about constantly. But like I said, it&#8217;s a fine line between their commitment to what we&#8217;re trying to do and not overstepping the mark.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12870603\/Gary-Neville-Tottenham-Yves-Bissouma-Nottingham-Forest-Spurs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Neville accuses Tottenham players of &#8216;STUPIDITY&#8217;\u00a0after Yves Bissouma was sent off with a straight red in 2-0 win over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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