Once more unto the breach, dear Yids, once more;
Or close the wall up with our Chick King boxes.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As Modders stillness and humility:
But when the blast of Azza Blud blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Steffen the Freundts, summon up the Thudd,
Disguise fair shoooooots with hard-favour’d range;
Then lend Arry’s twitching eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the large port drunk in bed
Like the brass cannon; let Sandro’s mono-brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled Bostock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded drum n’ base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful Defoe.
Now set the Jordan’s teeth and stretch the Gallas nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend 3 Metre Peter
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from London Gin 40° proof!
Fathers that, like Greavsie after 19 Brandy Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till last orders fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of buses home
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d Bill Nick did beget you.
Be copy now to men of bulging bagels,
And teach them how to war. And you, good Chirpy,
Whose limbs were made in N17, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble Lilywhite lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like Archibald in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry Redshnapps, Tottinghams, and Saint Burkinshaw!’
We got done by solid perfromance, by a top class team run by an astute tactical manager who watched, analysed and exploited the same weaknesses which most of us here post about every week! Oh and before we get too hung up on Crouch, we should remember what happened in Barcelona and our reaction to it! We should get a grip on the stiff upper lip!
We were out-thought and consequently out-played, but a good reason for that was that Real were up for it tonight; Jose recognized the threat, had done his homework and kicked arse on the complacency they showed on the week-end. Make no mistake they were up for this fixture, sadly we were not!
Its going to upset any side losing a player so close to kick-off, plans go out the window and the build up effectively crumbles. Yeah OK they are professionals, but many of them were at the apex of their careers walking out in Madrid, nerves exacerbated by a last minute team change? Hardly suprising.
As for Crouch, he’s been a bit dumb, but probably just trying too hard and fallen foul of his natural clumsy-oafishness. But with him gone the threat of VdV was diminished, there was no-one in the middle to cross to, which negated Bale (and would have Lennon), except to cut in where they could be dealt with in numbers.
Was Crouch set up? Seems a bit unlikely but if I was JM I’d have been looking to get Crouch out of the game, sort of like collapsing the tent by removing the pole!
Either way we got done, we can have no real complaints about Real, but we have them at the Lane, we have nothing to lose and Audere est Facere…BIOYRMC.
To be fair, I’ve not seen the VdV threat for months – so not sure Crouch can be blamed for that.
What I’ve just been too damn lazy to say, just then, is that clearly any team loses part of their threat when down to 10 men.
My point re: VdV remains, that I haven’t seen much threatening from him for a good while, in a full team.
Crouch remains a muppet.
Yes and only a man with a very, very long arm can operate him!
VdV has been less effective than he was earlier in the season, but then so too has Bale and a few others; I think isolating his flat form misses a few other things.
Dare I suggest that the team form has been dented by the work, skill and domination of play being totally underfulfilled by the lack of finishing. If I were VdV I would be wondering why the hell we are not winning 6-0 each week after all the effort being made to create buckets of chances.
Now is the time for Harry to show his stuff. Pick these guys up and re-assmble them into a side that can beat Stoke, but more importantly go down next week in a blazing thunderball of flame not a fart and a small puff of smoke. Our main priority now, barring a miracle, is to beat Stoke and keep beating sides till they tell us its over and we are 4th.
The other priority is to make sure the squad stays upbeat and together and doesn’t turn in on itself to vent disappointment. We know we need to strengthen in a couple of areas but we need that to be as well as, not instead of our currents crop of stars. We need to keep VdV and Modric and Bale as well as Lennon and A&E, Daws, Sandro, and hopefully a resurgent Thudd. That will require Harry bringing the group together and keeping it tight.
I sense a better window this time round with no World Cup to derail and distort player values and quality. If we can keep our squad (apart from some space-wasters)intact I think there will be players wanting to play with us….
I also have a post I’m cooking making A/The case for Jose to be the next Spurs manager! More to come…. :finn:
I think losing Lennon was a big problem which Harry made worse by switching Modric and Bale around.
All of a sudden Modders gets switched to the left, Bale to the right and Jenas is starting when he should have been on the bench.
Couple this with Krank, Pienaar, Palacios & Hudds either unfit or completely unavailable and it was going to be tough as we lacked options.
Looking on the pitch even VDV, Bale and Gallas weren’t 100%, whether some of these injuries have been caused by a lack of rotation throughtout the season we’ll never know.
The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bone
I feel so suicidal
Just like lanky Mr. Crouchie
Lonely wanna die
If I ain’t dead already
Ooh you know the reason why.
Suggest a new nickname for Crouch… as he trudged off, the Real fans chanted Tonto Tonto Tonto.. STUPID STUPID STUPID.
Sounds innocuous, like calling Neil Warnock “Colin”.
Even Britsh Techno music legend and DJ Kirk Degiorgio took time out to post his thoughts on twitter:
“that’s what you get when you start Crouch rather than Pavlyuchenko”
:blush:
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Can you believe that Mourinho’s team with Casillas; Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Carvahlo, Marcelo; Di Maria, Xabi Alonso, Ozil, Khedira; Adebayor, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Diarra, Granero, Arbeloa, Garay, Higuain………..tonked us? Er, yes.
But ENIC have had a taste of the big time and want more, and we’ve had a season to remember for a change. So cheer up, if you don’t listen to ‘The Spurs Show’ podcast then do catch up, and how about this, their video….. vodcast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dkd4Io2cDU&feature=player_embedded#at=53