Guiri Green":13omubgi said:
Good to see Gary Lineker asking keith Hill if they'd raised their game for this one. They were complimentary on Rochdales performance but I felt they seemed surprised that a L1 Team had the ability to 'play'.
I had the exact same argument with a friend who told me he can't watch the lower leagues because of the terrible standard of football.
I told him to look at the highlights of Graham Carey in the previous two and a half seasons, and to let me know who has scored as many stunning goals from distance in English football in that time.
There's far too much ignorance out there about what the lower leagues are about. Sadly the majority of pundits fall well within that category too. If it's not in the Premier League or Champions League they don't know and probably don't care.
I felt bad for Rochdale, I was really rooting for them to be honest. Their performance clearly surprised Spurs who didn't expect professional footballers with pace, energy and technique to be coming up against them.