Anybody can miss a penalty, so there is no blame to lay at the feet of Troy Parrott for last night’s FA Cup exit at the hands of Norwich City.
We have seen Parrott stick spot-kicks away for fun for Tottenham’s youth teams. Top corners, panenkas, you name it. But his effort last night was tame, as the 18-year-old learned a lesson in the pressures of senior football.
MORE: Jose Talks About Parrott As Though He’s Damaged Goods [Video]
Norwich goalkeeper Tim Krul claims to have shook the Republic of Ireland international’s confidence, telling the Eastern Daily Press: “For me personally, I look at the player. Who’s confident and who’s not.
“The young lad, Parrott, I played a little bit with his head. “I said ‘I haven’t seen many penalties from you when I’ve done my homework’ and he just looked at me.”
The below video shows Krul getting in Parrott’s face before the striker’s penalty, and the mind games he later played with Gedson Fernandes…
Tim Krul knew Tottenham stars’ penalties due to clever bottle trick
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Dier – R (he went left and Krul followed him but it was too much for the goalkeeper)
Lamela – L (missed as his shot hit the upright)
Lo Celso – L (he went left and found the net)
Troy Parrott – R pic.twitter.com/SVEG6rGvc3
When you think of the pressure Parrott would be under stepping into Harry Kane’s shoes, you can see why Jose Mourinho has been cautious with him.
Spot on, making mugs out if he faithful. 20 years and counting…
They tried that and blew the Bale money on mainly dross. Before that, Comolli sold Berba and bought Bent, sold Carrick and bought Zokora…
Directors of football are just boardroom whores…
We need to get our head around profit over progress… 😂
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Liverpool is what happens when you have decent and ambitious owners, rather than a bunch of sneaky carnts…
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Speaking of inventions. If you can invent a medium sized bed or even a single one that can turn into a table tennis table in under an hour you’ve cracked it🌚
Parrott looks mustard. I’m getting on the Parrott train early, let’s just hope he doesn’t get shipped out on loan, or dare I say it, sold.
Till Gerrard tries to be lampard 🌚. You could be right you know. We’ll see.
I blame the lot of ya. But hey. We’ll move forward. Tottenham and i will rescue him. I’ll come back for ya Steve son. 🌚
What you’ve done to that lad is wrong. Contaminated him. Broke his dreams. And weakened his faith
Thats Speculation Tappa. At the moment things are going very well on the field . Liverpool will be the TOP DOGs for years , just like the 70.s and 80’s .
I wanna nick Steve killer cushion off your firm. He’s got it in him to be in mine. 🌚. Steve. Fix up yourself son.
What I find difficult to understand is this . Regarding Botch and Jose . Why go along with the Corporate Mantra ? ‘ I am Berry Happy ‘, ‘There will be No Major Overhaul in the Summer ‘, I can understand the Be Careful or else you Gonna be sacked , scenario, but we are talking about 2 Men , Multi Millionaires , Respected in their Fields , Who were, are , scared to open their mouths , or paid up Members . Regarding Gagging Orders . Blanchflower Refused to sign those way back in the 60’s, Check It out .
If you can invent an out door TT ball your rich.
So is my boy and so am I. 🌚
Please don’t cancel the cricket too. I’m trying to get my grandson more into the game. He can swing a bat but just wants to kick a bloody ball. His table tennis is bloody good though. I reckon he’d beat you. 🌚
Please don’t cancel it. 🌚
Should we cancel it and borrow the money to pay Haringey. Please don’t vote to cancel TOTTENHAM entertainment coz you don’t live here and don’t understand what’s going on. Please. I know you have a lot of power🌚
Like Grobbelaar. All things are equal and that, fair play to them.
Boxing, NFL… who cares about the football team? They’re just incidental…
Just do your thing and I’ll do mine. Happy days then.
Andy Jacobs on Talk $hite (one of the few good people on there with Hawksby), said he went to the new stadium when Poch was still there as a Chavski fan and was full of jealousy. He said, “this club have everything, great stadium, great manager, great football”.
He also said that Lewis could have easily given Levy instructions to keep Poch happy, got Dybala and Fernandes etc, had a real freshen up. He just cannot fathom the logic behind how the club’s being run and how bad everything has becomes so quickly…
He’s spot on.
Why would it be? He’s on your firm.
It’s a joke.
Was just asking and wanted to hear his take. Was also gonna ask him if pool should be a bit worried about what Everton are about to do. But I’ll leave it. It’s a beautiful morning.
We should have got a central striker in January, we had a month to sort it out.
It could have made the difference, especially with Jose’s flipping long-ball game. Levy is penny wise and pound foolish, no Champions League is going to cost a lot more, to put it mildly.
Where football is concerned I would say Levy is actually a complete idiot…
CL & P League cup winners, I’ll take that thanks..
You can’t retain any credibility as a journalist when talking about the situation and not bring Levy into the discussion. You’d make yourself look about 12…
And when klopp leaves and things may not go so well on the field?
Fenway Sports have a good business model. The clue is in the name.
60% corporate 40% fan base. Its their business model.
🎼we are TOTTENHAM
Super TOTTENHAM..
Gonna ride past her in a bit. Give her a cheeky ring on me bell. I’m sure she’ll gimme a wink. Yeah well. I’m a nuts “happy clapper. Got you girl. X
You bring in a manager that is known in the football world as playing big men up front then the board bring in two short midfielders….ok then.
Whatever you say man.
Well, there is no money in winning anything other than the CL…and if they honestly want to win something then a director of football is required, the board have no idea how to run the football squad..
Money from winning cups is on the agenda. Maximum amount.
I think they want everything to do with money.
You think they want to win the league, honest question ?
ENIC will not be selling up till all is achieved. You need to get your nut round that.
ENIC need to sell up, thats the only way fans will have a glimpse of hope. However, there will not be many now that can afford it, and will be football people that want success….this is a cash cow and we could see the Levy family here way passed our lifetimes..
We’re gonna dominate this thing.
You’re catching on a little bit now. Well done. Now try to look a bit further ahead on what’s going on. Put your levy hate bit aside for a minute. You’ll see even clearer. Don’t forget to tally in the sponcered hotels. Push your positive imagination 5 years forward and all inbetween.
Levy is playing the long game, you have to give him credit for doing his job (Joe asked him to do) which is to make money on his investment. Winning doesn’t matter, fans really need to understand that. I think now with boxing and Gaga there will be a lot more companies looking to sponsor the stadium. ENIC have manipulated the faith of fans to make a huge investment which is virtually impossible in any other market…
You’re right, I’m sure he’s barely interested.
There’s a rally good article in the mail looking at who is to blame for this mess we lovingly call our football club. Surprisingly even Daniel cops some flak. Bout time
Levy has made the firbes lest apparently…. So he’s doing very nicely as well thank you very much. It stinks steve
😆 its a krul krul world.
Odion Ighalo scored twice in the FA, Yeh but… he’s crap we can do better without a striker.🙄
So we miss out on a home FA cup quarter final against Man Utd. Man Utd brought in a striker in January who has now scored three goals in two appearances. We are unable to do that.Man Utd win 3-0. For some reason their players do not appear to be fatigued even though they appear to play as many games. Our club is a sham. Levy and ENIC are a toxic cancer within our club. ENIC/LEVY OUT
One would be forgiven for thinking the whistling crew played to get to penalties in extra time. Krul as it was they played a blinder
Lewis is the main invester of tavistock group who own more than 200 companies in 15 countries…. Spurs is just one of those companies… He definitely isnt a football fan.. Or hed be involved like baldy or abromovich.
Big dough towards enics bank and debt.. We won’t be buying mbappe with it thats for sure.. I don’t need to ‘try’ crushing you mate. You support spurs. So you didnt feel overwhelmingly disappointed and/or embarrassed after yesterday and also recent performances? The definition of crushed brother 😆
Intead of Vorm.
The tax exile whos been living in the bahamas since the 80s 😆 hes irrelevant I think spurs/enic/levy is just one of many pies that pumps obscene amounts of money his way. Lewis has no problem investing in stocks where he made most of his money. I’m pretty sure its levy who calls all the shots. I could be wrong and its lewis ordering levy to make profit and balance the books? Lewis owns more. 70 percent. So is levy his dog? Or is levy doing his own thing?
Two massive concerts beamed all over the world. In TOTTENHAM at the TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR stadium. Future stadium sponsorship people best come with some BIG dough🌚🌚
Oh. And a bit a cricket. 🌚
Let me add this up now. £20m food &drink on match days say. Couple concerts booked. Good hand full of rugby games. Some boxing. That should cover our £50m to Haringey council for this year. It’s all good.
Troys penalty was poor he opened up his body easily showing where he was going. Perfect height for the keeper and soft with no conviction… Krul was a beast for holland at saving penalties. Acts the clown to put people off. Unsportsmanlike, but it works.
My spuress. Don’t watch nutt’n baby. We’ll laugh last the longest. Settle in girl. I know you’ve “got this thing. You know your backs “got. So. You’ve got lady gaga coming 🌚 love it baby. X.
Tweet: “Tough set of fixtures to end the season but I’m pretty confident that despite current form, we can still get something at home against Lady Gaga”
Forgot about Guns & Roses
But but but but…..money to compete yada dribble dribble……🤡
………..aaaaaand Gedson Fernandes on loan.😶
So this year they have:
Summertime Ball
Boxing
Lady Ga Ga
NFL
NFL
Who needs CL footy when you could go and watch this….yaaa..
Its funny how the (free) bred winner gets treated like a dirty wh..or..e but I bet Levy is running circles to make everything perfect for the events, urgh, events…
See this is the problem. He’s got so much comig in in different revenue streams now, football really is an annoying side issue
As usual totally agree. I have nothing but loathing and mistrust for them lot now, they have earned it in spades. There’s too many things that have been bought up on here too often now that it’s boring, but that said it’s still true. I’m genuinely fearful for the future of the club.
Who needs soccer when you have lady ga ga gaaaaaaa….
Remember kids, Joe Lewis is only worth 7bn…
It is the worst possible scenario after moving into the new stadium. Quite a few people feared this would happen but withheld judgement until they saw what the owners were going to do. Some people are trying to dress ir up as some kind of rebuilding project, as some kind of reinvention.
I believe Jose was hired to fix things in the short term. Leavy said when he appointed him that the squad was very talented and It just needed to get back to winning ways. That hasn’t happened all, no surprise there.
It is just a complete shambles, there is no other conclusion to draw at this point.
It is the worst possible scenario after moving into the new stadium. Quite a few people feared this would happen but withheld judgement until they saw what the owners were going to do. Some people are trying to dress ir up as some kind of rebuilding project, as some kind of reinvention.
I believe Jose was hired to fix things in the short term. Leavy said when he appointed him that the squad was very talented and It just needed to get back to winning ways. That hasn’t happened all, no surprise there.
It is just a complete shambles, there is no other conclusion to draw at this point.
Sometimes it’s easier to distract from the real issues and causes rather than get to the root of it…
I’m not falling for it. I’d love to have met Rupert and discussed his opinions tho. I thought I’d stay out of this til the annual debacle that is the transfer window opened again, but as some of us have consistently pointed out, this whole leisure section of the enic sports and leisure franchise is falling apart quick style
When people accuse you of gaining pleasure from watching us play badly and even losing you just need to ignore it.
This is known as a weaponising the argument and it’s ploy to deflect criticism. If you criticise the performance, and you blame that performance on certain things (like the manager) others don’t agree with, you get it in the neck for a lack of loyalty.
It’s the same tactics as Stalin’s Russia, any criticism of the state is disloyalty, no matter how justified.
It’s complete balls, don’t fall for it.
LOVE SPURS – HATE ENIC
With all the other on pitch problems the club has now, focusing on s penalty miss by a kid striker seems slightly frivolous under the circumstances.
Everything about this team has become ghastly this season and Jose has probably made it slightly worse with his anti-Spurs football. None of us would mind if the boring footy brought results, but it isn’t even doing that.
The whole thing is an embarrassment and a mess. Not the players, not the club, not the fans. The people that run it, they made the mess.
The penalties weren’t good by any stretch, but they are not the real issue. We have played them 3 times in the last few weeks. There’s a strong argument to say the better football came from them on every occasion. Now before I get hung drawn and quartered for that, I take not even the tiniest but of satisfaction from that statement. While I have my reservations about Jose, I would trust him to know if parrot was ready, trouble or whatever. So I don’t hold it against him, at the end of the day anyone can miss a penalty. But the real issue here is why is it we can’t seem to play anything resembling decent football anymore? The lack of attacking isn’t a surprise, it’s Jose’s way, but you got to question why we seem to be struggling to defend properly anymore
Krul being off his line wasn’t missed, it was ignored. These kinds of incidents prove the FA have an agenda outside the laws of the game.
Disappointing for Troy but he did at least step up while the old hands hid. He can also console himself with the knowledge HK missed one on his debut under far less pressure (already 5 up) and without some lummox getting in his face before he’d even reached the box. (Btw why was Krul allowed to keep being a yard off his line when the lino was staring right at him?)
As for the preceding two hours … another witless, disheartening performance; ultra cautious while still looking achingly vulnerable against a semi-championship outfit. At least the crazy gibber about “targeting” the FA Cup has ended but every game now is just clarifying for opponents we are there for the taking.
Parrot should not have taken a penalty.
I don’t begrudge Krul his moment in the sun before he’s back psyching out strikers in the Championship next season.