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Arry Redknapp Is Mavis Riley

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“You’ve got to go there and play sensibly against the better teams, you’ve got to be difficult to beat away from home. Let’s not kid ourselves. If we come back with a point we would all be delighted.”

“So you’ve got to go out there and hit them on the break. We’d like to win but we’re not going to go out and start swarming all over them – they are a top team, so you have to be aware of that.”

Stirring stuff. Arry’s pre match words there evoke such strong emotions. Forget ‘Cry havoc!’, never mind Braveheart and see you later alligator to ‘Upon my command, unleash hell!’ No, what we have here has just raised the bar in motivational speeches.

Hairs tingling on the of your neck? Nope, mine neither. He’s about as fired up as Mavis Riley dithering over whether to have a custard cream or a chocolate digestive.

Given the manner in which Tottenham play their best football, it’s seem downright weird for Arry to suddenly come it all master tactician on us. There will be quite enough over-thinking taking place courtesy of the fat Spanish waiter. Tottenham need to get out there and do precisely the opposite of his pearls of wisdom above.

A holding game is something Spurs are not entirely at one with to put it mildly and this strategy also requires a damn tight back four. Hardly our calling card.

Anytime goalscorer punt would have to be the boy Bale @9/2.

BIOYC!

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  • TMWNA says:

    A spirited face saving fight back against a team that had for the most part, stopped playing in the second half after completely humiliating us (Or did we humiliate ourselves?) in the first 15(!) minutes.

    In our defence, we were playing the European and Italian champions, but that’s all we had in our defence last night as our whole back 5 was a shambles. With King on his last leg and the others consistently inconsistent or plain rubbish, it’s a real worry that only Dawson, who also has his faults, can be considered ‘good enough’ for the future.

    Like rabbits in headlights, players were caught ball watching time after time. People bang on about preferring to lose 4-3 than winning 1-0 with defenders playing professionally and earning their dough, not me.

    I’m sure some of our fans walk around in a daze of past glories and a head full of Blanchflower/Nicholson quotes. The big difference there is that those boys actually won trophies.

    J***s was deemed by some to have played well in the second half after being largely culpable for the first half rout by failing to track back after his botched tackle which led to their first. Although it’s more than he does usually, playing the odd decent pass does not a good performance make. I also noted that he did his old trick of hiding behind players rather than moving into space to receive a pass.

    Yes, we were down to ten and had J***s alongside him, but ‘hollywood’ Tom was run rings round in the middle and so another big game passes him by. Lennon played well in patches and brilliant Bale put himself in a shop window the size of Europe, papering the cracks and saving our blushes. As for that gormless prick up front, say no more.

    • spurlative says:

      Yeah, thats what i meant.

      I have had a love hate relationship with Ledley in the past…it recently became true love. But now again, im left thinking that he should just get out while he still has his reputation. If not for his sake, but rather the sake of the club.
      Sometimes you have to wonder if he is actually now taking the piss. Obviously Harry will back him and use him where he can, but does Ledley not have dark thoughts of how much damage he might also be doing which to a large degree does cancel out the good?
      Its not that i dont mind him being around, but its the fact that he is relied on too much. In terms of World Class, it has to be considered that he well and truly should simply be replaced. Stick him on the bench. At least he’ll always be avaialable then.

      We’ve tried to patch it up with Gallas. Poor Caulker is not even around to take much needed advice from these greats. Bassong needs a bazooker up his arse and Kaboul must stop getting injured just when it looks like he is about to be important for us.

      Considering our unique dispositions up front and at the back, we truly have done quite well.

  • Ned says:

    All things considered I thought Crouch did as well as any of our strikers could playing alone up front at Inter for the entire game. Plus we would not have even been there if not for his hoals.

    Pav + Defoe + Keane would have stunk in the lone striker role.

    The player we really needed last night was the sulky chain smoking Bulgar. He was awesome up front alone.

    But Spurs are the type of club that sells players like Berbatov and buys players like Crouch.

    Beggars can’t be choosers.

    • trembly says:

      “Beggars can’t be choosers.”?

      FRO. Berbatov was sold because he was being poached, just like Rooney is now bing sold by Manure. All clubs are that type of club – unless they have the money to be otherwise which limits all but 2 or 3 in the world.

  • bdog4037 says:

    so how is this result going to affect the everton game .deep in thought on this ?

    • kenny powers says:

      been thinking bout that too. and do you know what? who fcuking knows? that seems to be the nature of us this season even more than times gone by. the exiting thing about us is you NEVER know what will happen when we play.(last night the best example of this)

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