Manchester City away then.
According to some top ranking statisticians a few harrowing facts have emerged today. Tottingham have drawn their last 23 games and Mick McCarthy’s 11 year old niece Kylie, has scored more goals for her school netball team than Pav, Defoe and 3MP combined.
Going into this game is like waiting on welcome but extremely unlikely news. Ben Shepherd sound remotely convincing when talking about football, your missus telling you that left the bathroom looking emaculate, a lottery win.
This entire Premiership has been below par of course. Manchester United will win the Championship based upon being significantly less profligate than anyone else. Especially Arsenal. To a lesser extent Cheatski. The remaining European places will be scrambled for by those who can at least fake momentum and roll over the finish line.
Spurs look inept and unlikely to snatch even 5th spot. Cue the stock rant about all the points dropped long before we got here. I refuse to indulge anyone telling me it will be close. Close implies some class of neck and neck competition. This isn’t close. This is an asthmatic with a bag over his head lurching towards ‘some’ noise hoping for a respite, a kind word, a chair, a glass of water.
I fundamentally doubt Arry’s nouse to steer us through the 18 games of the Europa. I think he’d find playing our first squad in it irresistible. If we did qualify then the side entered ought be comprised of O’Hara, PSB, Hutton, Dos Santos, Jenas and such. As I mentioned here the other day, this might even make one or two of them look more appealing when it comes to flogging ’em off.
We are in for a long summer my friends. And the few satisfying moments of the season will be meager rations when the stories come stealing in. Modders in exchange for Berbatov and cash would be my favourite. Bale’s stock has fallen of late due to his inability to replicate that hat trick in every game since that game and so this might just insulate us against real threats and just produce random piffle about him being Barcelona’s number one target.
So what of tonight? Well it’s all about hoping we perform. Maxi scored three last night and yet another side in the ascendancy spanked a weakling. We have failed to do this to anyone all season. Defoe scored twice in a game once and that was just the once and aside from that he like all our other strikers has been a virtual no show.
City are uninspiring fare. We really shouldn’t fear them . We are more than capable of beating them. But should we not then it’ll be a salutary business to compare our performance against them at the beginning of the season with this one.
I’m having 5/2 the draw as it represents value. How depressing.
BIOYMCC!
“Can anyone remember the pride and hurt in Jol’s voice after a match. I can.” – Amen.
“Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.” – Amen.
“His priorities are media respect/coverage and the England job. Spurs is a stop gap job.” – Amen.
“Out of ‘arrys signings only VDV and Sandro look reasonable buys the rest now look a complete waste of money.” – Just got bought by the club on his shift really though. His players really stand out, for all the wrong reasons.
“Why we keep buying nearly out of contract players is beyond me, Danny Rose looked light years ahead of him tonight as did O’Hara the other day.” – O’Hara should come back, a Spurs fan with class (really, I’m referencing his on-field play here!) and Harry should fuck off. Danny Rose, another “Comolli product”.
Just felt lazy, and would rather crop my favourite quotes of the night, with added notes.
I guess that it was only a matter or time till we trended to our forwards not scoring for us and starting to score from them.
We had 63% of the play and 16 attempts on goal only two of which were accurate.
We are now lame ducks and have nothing to shoot for bar some misplaced pride in not being overhauled by Everton. We should bring back our rookie strikers and give them a run in the last two games, which should now be treated as the beginning of next seasons planning. Send everyone we are not going to use home, pull in the best rookies with potential and start assessing the real value of the squad.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=goal-iamgoingtocommitsuicidetott
Fingers cro… well, not quite. Anyway, congratulations Harry for trawling out the stock “two points from eight” again. Inspiring.
More depressing is who would you hand the keys to???? Moyes, Coyle, Sparky??? The most acomplished free agent manager out there is BMJ…
Thank god today is almost over… Back to the tequila….
Ive just had a eureka moment and have come up with the name of our next manager to take us to the promised land, some one who everyone on this blog has overlooked and is avilable and who hat was in the ring for the england job.
I give you Big Sam Allerdyce. WHOO HOOOOOOOO told ya you like it :hae: :-D :dizzy: :dizzy2: :ermm: :shifty: :freu :cwy: :shocked: :shocked2:
Martin O Neill is in line to take the reigns after HR has his day in court and finds out that the HMRC are not only a useless bunch of tools but they have am even bigger bunch of tools to call on in order to fuck you over!!
And there’s ways to fuck them over too.
Lawfully of course.