Good morning my dears.
It’s been a very long time since Spurs won at Old Trafford. In fact some of the very fresh faced amongst you weren’t even born.
It’s a crumb of comfort that we frequently play some of our brightest football against Manure, but all too frequently walk away pointless.
The set up isn’t a complicated one. We are seemingly incapable of scoring via our strikers. My fear is that we don’t have a more sophisticated plan than knock downs from 3MP. If that is Arry’s strategy then…
Hernandez is rapidly entering territory whereby folk will be calling him free-scoring. The rat faced Bulgarian’s form has improved. whether the little rodent can ‘do it’ against us will itself be the cause of at least four and and half thousand Saturday night headlines.
Let’s have a look at the betting eyecatchers…
Bale and Crouch seem long prices for anytime goalscorer. 4/1 and 3/1 respectively. Long shot of long shots – Spurs to win with a long shot 17/2. Cautiously optimistic would describe an away win by the margin of just one goal and that vends at 11/2 which suddenly looks like a sensible place to head for.
BIOYMC!
Clatterwank has got to have used up his last chance with the FA. He’ll do well with the mums at the U14 games he’ll soon be in charge of. Hope Rafa only had a cramp or a hamstring tighten on him. We’re going to need someone who can scramble for ricochets off of 3MP on Tuesday. Otherwise back to 4-4-2.
I just seen the highlights, we’ve got a clown playing in goal end of story.
Yep. Silly him for not realising that the ref would be playing “advantage” after a “dive” and subsequent intentional handball. :shocked2:
Well, clearly he doesn’t see Nani going to ground as a dive, rather simply “no foul”.
Plenty of errors all round in truth. Not least of all from our outfielders. The amount of stray passes, neglected pass attempts etc., was pretty noticable. We weren’t at the races for large periods before the “incident”.
Usual shite from Redknapp, I think he goes to Old Trafford expecting to lose
If it wasnt for Gomes we could have lost by 4 or 5. Gomes is not the problem he is without doubt part of the solution. World class even. The problem as everyone knows is the lack of a goal scorer. Keane was absent today and must surely have played his last for us. Both Pav and Crouchie have major limitations. Defoes a better bet but we still need the real thing up front. We all know this and I’m sure Harry does too. I’m also sure someone more eloquent will post a 600 word essay on the subject as though it were a revelation at some point.
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Defoe? are you sure?? We have one half decent striker. The rest are shite, and guess who bought the other three?
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Was that was tossed in my general direction ……………… ????
Firstly, by my standards at least, 600 words don’t cut it as an essay. Secondly I and a couple of others here have already posted, as eloquently as we could, on the subject. I would point out however that that was at a time when IT WAS a revalation or at least against the flow of most opinion on here and the other decent blogs. Most were content with the current crop of forwards, only when Defoe got crocked did a few people look up and go “DOH!”.
For a good couple of months people have offered various of our forwards as the way forward, I’ve only seen TMWNA standing firm on the analysis and opinions we posted in August. “What we all know” should actually read “what we all know NOW”. There were a few who suspected it in July/ August but sarcy snips at those people, does you little credit my friend.
The golden rule is you play to the whistle. If c#ntenberg didn’t blow his whisle for nanny handling then its not a dead ball. Yes, c#ntenberg was rot for giving us yellows and nothing for their fouls but we couldn’t even find the back of the net anyway whether or not they scored the second. Same result. No use blaming the ref for the second goal. Let’s look at ourselves and freaking get on with it.
There was no way that Rooney was leaving UTD. Not with a Nani in the squad.
rooney is most certainly leaving utd but on their terms, he is a dead man walking and by now he knows it, no-one but no-one fu*cks with old red nose ever, period! Expect him gone in summer if not in January – only difference you’ll see is fee paid when his agents cotton on to fact they’ve been mugged by an old dog protecting the club’s interests.
We were not good enough today despite them being second rate – usual spurs problem – lack of belief and not ruthless enough.
clattenberk is a cu*nt but we didn’t need today’s game to know that.
Bring on Inter, maybe we’ll get our tactics right for that.
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It’s unfortunate that another controversial decision will deflect a lot of deserved flak. It’s ironic that an OT ref didn’t give them the initial penalty decision but still it results in a goal. I don’t think the ref saw Nani handling the ball and the linesman then bottled it. Gomes should have played to the whistle and perhaps just stood still when Nani scored, although some common sense from the ref would have been nice.
I thought we played quite well in parts in the first half, but why would you pick a team to play at OT without a natural defensive midfielder in it for the sake of playing J****? Why would you start with the washed up PSB? Crazy!
Just over a quarter of the season gone and our strikers have scored 2 goals between all three of them. Is there a worse record than that at any club in any division?