Morning.
Is there another football club like us? Our players take to the pitch a creaky PA system blasting some macho Star Wars tune. Our intrepid boys ought charge out to The Entry Of The Gladiators.
Just as I thought we were on a reprieve from the day to day idiocies of life in the N17 fast lane – news from yonder Evening Standard breaks. Clive Allen has given Jermain Defoe a Jimmy Greaves golden goal compilation video.
Innocent enough you might think. Until you discover it was in the guise of a ‘How To Guide.’
This is not so much the equivalent of handing a runner up in Masterchef a copy of the latest Gordon Ramsey book, it’s more like handing a fully qualified airplane pilot with a major carrier snapshots of crashed aircraft, smoldering twisted metal, dead bodies and bits of luggage scattered about with the word, ‘BAD’ in block capitals subtitled on them.
Typically Tottenham. Full of good intention but woefully shy of achieving anything you’d actually want to confess you’d had a go at. How did we get to the shameful state of affairs whereby a one time goal machine is being thrown old bones like this and actually sharing with major newspaper that they,‘taste real good!’?
It’s insane. Do you think that Andy Murray watches old Pathe News footage of Fred Perry when his form’s on the wane? Do you think Wayne Rooney will be having both knees replaced as a 70th birthday present to himself? Will Didier Drogba have to sell his medals to keep all three bars on his gas fire come the autumn of his years?
No of course not. The modern game is almost unrecognisable from how it was 20 years ago, let alone 40 or 50. I like Clive Allen, but this smacks of something more desperate than even your average common or garden desperation.
I could have Jermain back and pumping ’em in like a man on the razz with Berlusconi in a matter of hours. All you do is show him endless footage of him knocking the ball to his right foot, hunching and ‘kapow!ing’ it to the keeper’s feet and every time he does it on the tape you clip him round the back of the head and shout ‘idiot!’ at him.
Seems harsh I admit, but we’re not exactly dealing with Neil Armstrong here, are we? Maybe we could get him a tape on ‘Doing Up Shoelaces’ or ‘Using Cutlery’.
If I didn’t know better I’d say old Clive was taking the …….
30 minute interview with ‘Arry by the brilliant Danny Kelly (Goal, goal, goal Stan, goal at the Emirates).
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/kickoff/blog/2011-03-04/video-when-harry-met-danny
Danny is an top, toppity bloke.
I caught the Talksport apology the other week for him calling The Fat Spanish Waiter a nonce.
Only wish I’d caught him saying live :lol:
Harry H. You are right about the game changing is changing when Jimmy scored there was only four defenders. Now there is eight or somtimes nine in the box. We are missing the one person who can beat these back peddling energised defences with one Missile pass to Lennon or Bale. If you think Toure is the only player who wants to lose weight then email me and i will tell you why we cant keep many clean sheets. When managers go on Television and say thay are a top team will have to stop Bale and Lennon there tempo rises dramatically. even if your sat on the bench. Lets look at the Blackpool game when the hyperactive Kingston left is goal he had six or seven body’s behind him throw in a heavy sanded pitch and the defendingthiswas high octane. This same defence conceded four goals in the next game because there tempo was damaged by a sending of. What has happened in sport skill has bean compromised by endless energy the one thing skill would bring on was tiredness and defeat would follow . Now the pace maker keeps running and wins the race and the Lennons and Bales have to beat these pace makers who block clear and save there shots crosses without the skill tiring them . The slower Ufa Cup means our skill can win the day and bring on tiredness and defeat. Yes Harry H football has changed and if you believe Wenger and Toures explanation he had weight problems then he had the right man explaining is predicament Wenger because arsenal are the lightest team in the premiership 11st. Next time you see a defender make a great block clearance dirt tackle assult another player but a 59 year old warhorse shoot a slug gun in training and take is wife’s slimming tablet to sit on the bench. Then your are right Harry H the game has changed and to much energy can cause destruction and this is the biggest change i have discovered. This is backed by Toure and seconded by Wenger Gatuso Cole Dj Campbell Rooney Celtic and Rangers.
Harry H. You are right about the game changing is changing when Jimmy scored there was only four defenders. Now there is eight or somtimes nine in the box. We are missing the one person who can beat these back peddling energised defences with one Missile pass to Lennon or Bale. If you think Toure is the only player who wants to lose weight then email me and i will tell you why we cant keep many clean sheets. When managers go on Television and say thay are a top team will have to stop Bale and Lennon there tempo rises dramatically. even if your sat on the bench. Lets look at the Blackpool game when the hyperactive Kingston left is goal he had six or seven body’s behind him throw in a heavy sanded pitch and the defendingthiswas high octane. This same defence conceded four goals in the next game because there tempo was damaged by a sending of. What has happened in sport skill has bean compromised by endless energy the one thing skill would bring on was tiredness and defeat would follow . Now the pace maker keeps running and wins the race and the Lennons and Bales have to beat these pace makers who block clear and save there shots crosses without the skill tiring them . The slower Ufa Cup means our skill can win the day and bring on tiredness and defeat. Yes Harry H football has changed and if you believe Wenger and Toures explanation he had weight problems then he had the right man explaining is predicament Wenger because arsenal are the lightest team in the premiership 11st. Next time you see a defender make a great block clearance dirt tackle assault another player but a 59 year old warhorse shoot a slug gun in training and take is wife’s slimming tablet to sit on the bench. Then your are right Harry H the game has changed and to much energy can cause destruction and this is the biggest change i have discovered. This is backed by Toure and seconded by Wenger Gatuso Cole Dj Campbell Rooney Celtic and Rangers.
well said davspur
I’ve just lost the grip
This is what I have observed about his game in the years I have watched him.
He hangs on the shoulder of defenders but always to close making the pass to him to difficult.
When the ball is played to him and hes not in a position to strike his pass is invariably back wards so never builds an attack so rarely assists.
His best asset which is speed is rarley used, when do we seem him bombing past defenders?
His close ball control is poor and to often for me the team loose possession when he gets it.
The type of goals he scores, never with head, never lobs, curled balls either side of the inside posts, long shots, side footers. No he seems to want to strike the ball extrememly hard nearly all the time and this has the effect of reducing accuracy.
When the team face lesser opposition Defoe can add to the teams effort by scoring the 2nd or 3rd goals but when the oppositions defenders are “world class” keeping Defoe at bay is so not a problem for them they must laugh if they know hes in the team.
The simple truth is we can all see he is out of his depth he just is not good enough to be anything but an “excellent” striker when really you need “formidable, outstanding, magnificent, world class, supernatural, titanic, extra terrestrial, mythical, magical, utopian or divine!!!