Good afternoon and welcome to the 13th Premier League game of this campaign.
White Hart Lane can either become a theatre of desire ringing with songs, chants and cheers or it will turn into a beer hall putsch of grim silences and ugly boos. Which way will it go? Well, that’s entirely in the hands of those sitting in the home seats.
Support isn’t earned by the players. Support is tribal and unconditional. If your support wanes then don’t buy a ticket and tell everyone you know. Nothing kills a bad idea quicker than word of mouth. As Habib told us, to boo your own is on par with ‘pleasuring yourself’ with superglue. A self defeating exercise.
So what can I tell you about today? The scent of lucky heather, clothes pegs for sale and men who bathe once a week whether the need to or not wearing Primark clothing and the scene is set.
So who’ll have the last laugh? The omens are not good. It was at home to West Ham for Barry Daines’ testimonial that we lost 0-4 in 1981.The chairman was found yesterday in the fetal position under his desk, a pair of underpants over his head, a pencil up each nostril. You cannot fight fate.
My hope for today is that we can play some fluid football. Moussa will hopefully feature and it’s really important we don’t get bogged down in a glorified game of British Bulldog with West Ham. We need to rise above the hoofing and the physicality and outplay them. Ball on the floor and brains engaged. Upstairs for thinking. Downstairs for dancing.
Bale needs to take the game by the scruff of the neck, not simply make cameo appearances. Azza Blud also needs to achieve today and not simply take part. We need not only a win, but a performance to be proud of. West Ham are where they are in the table for a reason, but they are eminently beatable.
I predict a 2-1 win. But if we embrace the idea of outplaying this mob, rather than combating them then we could do some real damage. Defoe has a clear run of 3 league games and the away section will be on his back. What better way to make them the silent ones, to make them the grumblers in the ground early than to repeatedly blast the thing past Jaaskelainen?
BIOYWHC!
Didn’t take Harry long to get back to his old tricks – couldn’t wait to talk about signing Beckham.
And Crouch. And Defoe.
Walking self parody
kudos on the top pictures mate, they did make me chuckle, we need a win today simple as thet, coys!
thet? and mugged off into second place, hopefully that’s as bad as this day will get, up for this one but slightly worried, ah the life of a spurs fan
Even below par, we have enough quality to teach these pikey’s a thing or two about the beautiful game….3-0 Yids
Talk about underestimating the opposition. Egg on face, me thinks.
I hope there’s a flippin’ great omelette on your’s mate!
Eggy-weggy all over yer moosh -moosh!
yeah play below par and win 3 0? We couldn’t win 3 0 if we played at our best! Have u not seen the games we’ve played below par this season to teams not much better, Newcastle, west brom, norwich,wigan, pretty much every europa league match. Probably 0 0 unless its just one of them games at the lane where we at firing on all cylinders which is still yet to happen this season
lets do the pikeys.would be nice to see Pritchard let loose on this mob.I think hes got it.
Yeah pritchard is the new messi! The team lacks leadership so badly and u wanna play kids that won’t be good enough, just because they’re doin ok at youth level don’t mean they’re gonna be good enough for the first team. Reality check as usual for this site, probably 0 0
Probably you’re wrong-but nothing new there-please post again-love you lot’s :heart: