The refereeing decisions from Leeds United’s 1-1 draw with Tottenham in north London on Monday night are still being heavily discussed.
Leeds were awarded a penalty after Mathys Tel caught Ethan Ampadu with a high boot, although it took a VAR review for referee Jarred Gillett to point to the spot.
But Spurs fans were left furious later in stoppage time when Tottenham’s appeals for a penalty were waved away following Lukas Nmecha’s challenge on James Maddison.
Jamie O’Hara has already criticised both the referee and VAR over the decision, and he has continued to rail against Leeds and what he thinks was an unfair call against Spurs.
“The ref bottled it” – Jamie O’Hara blasts Jarred Gillett again
James Maddison has already claimed that the slight touch of the ball that saved Lukas Nmecha was from his right boot and not from the Leeds striker.
Jamie O’Hara insisted that he could not even see the ball move, and there is no reason why the referee and VAR concluded that it was not a penalty.
He feels Jarred Gillett bottled a big decision and wondered why VAR only looked at the incident for a few seconds while taking ages to rule out the West Ham goal on Sunday.
O’Hara said on Sky Sports: “It’s a penalty. I’m sorry, I don’t care what anyone says.
“You can show me a million angles of this, but where does the ball move? I don’t believe there is enough movement from the ball and the player. That ball does not move. That is a penalty.
“He bottled it, that ref. We saw a crazy decision the other day at West Ham, which was a foul. But they took an age over that decision. They looked at that for five minutes. They looked at the [Nmecha] challenge for 30 seconds and played on.”
Spurs were lucky against Leeds
O’Hara and Maddison can moan about a 50-50 penalty call as much as they want. However, everyone knows that Tottenham were lucky to get a point.
Only one team looked like winning the game after Leeds scored the equaliser, and Spurs goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky made a remarkable save in injury time to deny Sean Longstaff a decisive goal.
Simon Jordan pointed out that the Leeds equaliser drained all the confidence out of the Spurs team, and even O’Hara conceded that it was painful to watch them play.
This attempt to rewrite history is amusing, but deep down, Spurs know that they were lucky to leave their stadium with a point.
It’s ok. Let them whine. Leeds should have won the game. Little do they realise that Leeds have all the cards and the more their entitled fanbase whinge the more that Leeds will be inclined to not turn up against west ham away. Keep whining and we send you down. Good eh!!!.