Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.
It quickly got even better for Spurs as Roberto Rosales was rightly punished for bringing down Bale and, this time, Pavlyuchenko stepped up to takethe spot-kick and send the keeper thewrongway.