Good evening.
The arrival of Emmanuel at the Lane I’d have to describe as seminal. In a stroke his signature made bigots blush and fans across the globe experience something they hadn’t truly felt for some time. Legitimate hope.
Ade’s only here for a year and this is coup in itself. I’ve alleged that Arry is above all a good crisis manager and equally our new number 10 has form for arriving at new clubs and delivering some of his best work …early doors.
Man At Cable Street Riots is undoubtedly another light in the fog of ‘getting it right’. I was struggling to identify him in the first few minutes of my dodgy stream against Mick’s marauders – but as I made reference in the player ratings – he runs like a footballer on a Pathe News reel. Poker faced, all low center of gravity, big shorts and clumpy boots. No care for this out of place hair until the tackle is over, the run is done, the ball is out of play.
Brad has conceded more goals than anyone would care to mention. But against the backdrop of me actually being a Gomes admirer, I think the Septics’ horrible tally so far requires perspective.
City and United are scoring goals for fun. That’s not an excuse, it’s a statement of fact. And it’s all about perception …Granite jawed he stands. He blasts his charges in English and the watching crowds know him from his Premiership form. And when the ball goes in, his demeanor lacks that South American comic vibe. His failed dives have all been all out attempts rather than stock barrel rolls ala England’s Number One.
And what of the young chap with facial features that occasionally resemble a rodent with a poultry crest allergy? I believe he’ll come good for us again. Anyone with enough low animal cunning/savvy to attempt to engineer a transfer only a few months into a lengthy contract has enough about them to realise that all eyes are on his stock. As Fernando Torres will discover in due course a footballer needs to maintain his form if he is to stay attractive.
So personnel-wise we are primed to gradually improve once more in January . The hate figures have gone. But more importantly their wage bills have left with them. To state the bleedin’ obvious, the run into Christmas needs to be a period of consolidation with players learning to understand each other.
Still no return date for Billy Gallas, but this is such a vital piece of this season’s puzzle. Ledders will not feature in more games than he did last season and Kaboul appears to have an ongoing battle between his classy and his daft genes. Awsome Dawson equally seems to suffer when not supervised by an adult.
The path ahead is potentially exciting. Liverpool are not consistently living up to the hype. King Kenny has seemingly gone from a popular pontiff to a bloke in a chain store suit bemoaning refereeing decisions. Dalglish has paid through the eyeballs for for some relatively so so players. Which is cheap shot as that is known as market forces.
Arsenal have signed a genuine weapon in Gervinho, but as an entire outfit they are quite a bit broken. The doctrines of their illustrious leader has filtered down as being that of the troops too. But the problem is that they have simply run out of people to blame. Come Christmas I predict spontaneous combustion if they have failed to attach themselves convincingly to the coat tails of the front runners. Aunty Wenger’s jam tomorrow spiel has well and truly worn it’s welcome.
But of course, we’re only a week and a bit into September…
BIOYC!
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Sorry if this has been mentioned in passing over the last three days….whats the word on Lennon?
Our website is hilarious. No mention of him at all.
No return date. Physio Room is a good website for this sort of thing :daumen:
Sarcasm. Lowest form of wit. (although this website is the best at it – Its why I return!!!)
I should have said on the day of the match. His name wasnt even mentioned.
What about The Hudd – he didn’t even make it onto Physio Room?
Anyone know what’s going on?
There is a rumour going around that young Azza has been caught with something he shouldn’t have had, it is just a rumour though…
Not more go faster stripes in his eyebrow surely?
Let’s hope his name doesn’t crop up at around 8pm UK time tonight. On Channel 4. :ninja:
STD????
More like LSD :shocked2:
But apperantley he did get it off someone called Chlamydia…..allegedly….
It is wide open. LFC are better than last season but not by much, and their defence looks suspect. At the moment they seem like a bit of a one man team, with a shakey base!
Arsenal have lost that star quality. They have quality in numbers but with Nasri, Cesc, RVP all on song they were often irresistable. Now maybe they will have to grind more than before. Their heart has been ripped out and has been replaced by a pacemaker, which means they still work but they are weaker! SPurs were only 5 points behind last season after what was a dreadful run of 10 games from Feb to May.
I am not convinced by Chelsea either. Unimpressive in most games and an easy start. They have looked pretty toothless and while some may say “to win while playing bad is a good sign” I believe their wins in an easy start (Norwich, WBA, a very poor Sunderland & Stoke) papers over the cracks of a lack of creativity…Lampard looks slow and ineffective. Torres has lost it. Drogba feeling his age. Malouda not a shadow of the player of 2 seasons ago. I think they will be found out when they play decent opposition and expect Utd to turn them over good an proper next weekend.
IMO its a 4 horse race for 3rd & 4th.
On a separate note, anyone else find it pathetic that the Official WetSpam site cannot find it within itself to name the Spurs players in their match report?
http://www.whufc.com/articles/20110912/spurs-2-2-development-squad_2236884_2448299?
No team sheet & no player names (“Goal by their Number 9”, etc, etc…)
Typical small-minded, small club mentality… I really hope we rise above this in our match reports…
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Redknapp also confirmed that Giovani dos Santos, who appeared as a late substitute in Spurs’ win at Wolves on Saturday, rejected the opportunity to join Udinese in the summer as he was holding out for a move to Sevilla.
“Gio wanted to move but we couldn’t let him go,” said Redknapp.
“We had a £13m offer from Udinese with £10m down and the rest in do-able bonuses with a big sell-on, but he wouldn’t go.
“He wanted to go to Seville who were offering around £3m. You can’t blame the chairman for not letting him go. Gio is a talent with a big part to play.
“Only him and Luka are here now out of the lads who wanted to leave.”
Again Levy does the biz.
Might be we get some prime time from Gio.
£13m…ffs
Fakinel!
Talk about inconsistency amongst the players…
‘Arry is doing his bit to contribute too.
He’ll take the credit if Gio does the business in Europa.
I want Gio to do well for us I really do; probably more than anyone else in the squad who is not quite hitting full potential (Azza, Krank, Pav, The Bull, Defoe).
I got a sneaky feeling he just might get some opportunities between now and Xmas and that he might just become VDV’s direct replacement (when injured or not playing in PL match). First though; he needs to stop moping around and show he wants to knuckle down
I’ll be very surprised if he doesn’t get 90 mins (along with Pav) on Thursday.
I want Gio to do well, too, not only for him but just to show all the Redknapp sycophants what a dick head of manager he is.
Watcha Toddy!
Agree entirely.
Dogs are fine, thanks….
good man, shame our team arent as reliable as our dogs!!
shut up your face harry redknapp!