‘The stupidest thing I’ve ever seen’: £43m Spurs player did something so baffling vs Bodo/Glimt – journalist

Tottenham beat Bodo/Glimt on Thursday evening in what was a rare high for Spurs in a miserable campaign.

Indeed, this has been a terrible season for Tottenham. Ange Postecoglou is likely to be sacked at the end of the season, and Spurs’ current league position is terrible.

Position	Team	Played MP	Won W	Drawn D	Lost L	For GF	Against GA	Diff GD	Points Pts
15	EvertonEverton	34	8	14	12	34	41	-7	38
16	TottenhamTottenham	34	11	4	19	62	56	6	37

However, the win vs Bodo/Glimt was a high point of this term.

Although, it wasn’t all positive on Thursday as Tottenham conceded a late goal ahead of a difficult away leg, and they almost went down to 10 men.

Cristian Romero seemed to attack Jostein Maurstad Gundersen off the ball on Thursday in an incident that didn’t seem very clear to most even after seeing it on TV.

Speaking on The View from The Lane, Jack Pitt-Brooke has been discussing this incident, and he says that he had a really good view of what happened, explaining exactly what he saw.

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Cristian Romero’s moment of madness explained

Pitt-Brooke spoke about Romero’s moment of madness, and despite having a great view of this incident, he says he couldn’t get his head around it.

Pitt-Brooke says this was one of the stupidest and strangest things he’s ever seen in a big game, explaining exactly what he saw happen.

“We had a really good view of this. This was right in front of me,” Pitt-Brooke said.

I can’t get my head around it. I think it’s the stupidest, strangest thing I’ve ever seen in a big game by an experienced player. The thing that immediately came to mind for me, and I think this was worse than that, was Champions League semi-final 2012, Chelsea Barcelona.

“John Terry decided to knee Alexis Sanchez very hard in the back. But admittedly, that’s pre-VAR. He didn’t get away with it, but that’s the kind of thing that in 2012, you probably would get away with.

“So you can almost see, rationally, maybe it would make sense. Doing this in the era of VAR was unbelievable. If anybody hasn’t seen it, you could see what’s going to happen before it happened, right?

“Because Glimt were moving the ball forwards, and then Romero all of a sudden, he turns away from the game, fixes his eyes on Gunderson. I have no idea if anything happened between Romero and Gunderson in the preceding minutes before this, if maybe if Gunderson had kicked a Spurs player or whatever. But he locked eyes on him, went for him and then connects with a forearm.

“Nobody could argue that it was anything other than a premeditated attack. It was high, he got him, I think, around the neck. As soon as it happened, I thought, if that gets VAR, he’s going to get sent off.”

Cristian Romero’s discipline record for Tottenham

Romero was very lucky to avoid a red card against Bodo/Glimt on Thursday, and this is the latest in a long list of disciplinary issues Romero has had at Spurs.

Indeed, Cristian Romero has been criticised for his discipline on a number of occasions over the years, and this problem was highlighted again this week.

Romero has already received four red cards for Tottenham, and he was lucky to avoid a fifth here.

Romero is a talented player, but as the old saying goes, the best ability is availability, and if you have a centre-back who’s liable to being sent off on a semi-regular basis, you have a problem.

The £43m man needs to keep a lid on his emotions going forwards, because he really could’ve cost Spurs here.

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