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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i think that if davspurs is at least 50% right and just one spurs player is involved then my love affair with football is gone
said it all along crazy DAVSPURS is our leader..
I want Heurelho back. He’s a better keeper than Friedel he has a better personality and it’s much more fun having him in goal.
When has Gomes let in eight goals in two games.
I want him back against Liverpool or Harry should be sacked
regarding gomes treatment by turkey wottle Grrr Meh .hope that hes the one gone before Heurelho.
Brad Fried Eels looks so old he could be Howard webbs dad.I am of the opinion like tmwnn.the octopus got us into the champs league, a pensioners memory has chump chops, cant remember short time ago but lives in the past when cole,ferdinand,crouch,defoe,beckham etc were boys. if he stays it wont be long before hes after fat fwank when his legs have really gone :angry:
Exactly. All goalkeepers are crazy and Gomes has made some mistakes but overall he’s a far better keeper than Friedel.
He’s a real Spurs player just like Hoddle, Gazza and Ginola. A little daft but a lot genius
Some mistakes?? He makes David James look like Gordon Banks!! Gomes is a clown!!
If he’d have been in goal against both sets of Mancs then I reckon we’d have conceeded more than 8!!
Friedel is a short term solution, he’ll do for this season then hopefully we will spend some cash next summer and get a decent keeper in for the long haul.
Oh and how dare you mention him in the same sentance as those Spurs legends, go and rinse your mouth out!!
Well he holds the records for the least goals ever conceded in a season in the Dutch league and the least goals conceded in a season at WHL.
His mistakes do tend to attract a lot of publicity but I’m not sure he makes any more than most other keepers and he pulls off saves that few other keepers would get.
Bruce Grobellar was also a clown ,but was much loved at anfield for his bravery and first class saves. but he also let in a few howlers.If a striker misses a shot he can do that 5 or six times a match and can redeem himself with 1 goal. but if a goalie let in 5 or 6 shots a game and saved 1 shot he would be history after 4 games. crouch lasted 72 epl games and scored 6. Goalies on the whole get a bum rap.I know gomes does.
take a look at this and see how gomes compares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfoIurDhtOI
Gomes is class. A clown, occasionally, but a fantastic shot stopper nonetheless.
The very notion that we could sell an excellent 30 year old keeper (one that is so obviously being encouraged to go by ‘Arry too), to leave us with a first choice 40 year old, and a second string 38 year old is hardly building for the future. Typically Harry Redknapp, in a nutshell.
The sooner Flappyfloppychoppytwitchychops goes, the better – and preferably before we sell Gomes, though of course “our Manager” has already declared a January move to be on the cards. Probably so he can accomodate Beckham, who I’m praying will take up the 1 year contract extension the Galaxy have offered him.
What price Cahill now?
That must be your shortest ever post, and the one with the least context contained within or around it. :-D
Care to dress it up a bit? Which Cahill and so on? :daumen:
JESUS WEPT.
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The shortest verse in the bible , and least context,but you would have to look at the verses around it to understand it.
Not a dig at anyone just sorry if I startled you. ;-)
Okay.
Not religious. At least not since I was force fed religion as a kid.
Just wondering if there was something significant to read into Finn’s post, after all it’s two weeks into the season, with the transfer window being closed until January.
If it’s about Gary, as I would suppose, my question is, what’s changed? – apart from playing a few games, twice for England and then participating in a game against two of the finer strikers of the Prem, a game in which Bolton conceded 5.
We know his contract situation, at least I’m assuming nothing’s changed there either.
If it’s about Tim, then at least his age would fit him into Harry Redknapp’s strategy of buying “experienced players”.
But it’s too early to be worrying about the if’s but’s and maybe’s of the January window anyway isn’t it? I was merely attempting to inject a little humour, I’m used to Finn’s longer posts which often make for decent reading – so a little startled that it was so short and seemingly (thread wise) random?
I suppose finns one liner did appear to be random,but I suppose he may have been deep in thought and that bit just slipped out. He usually has it all buttoned up so as you know where hes coming from.
somewhere in oz I think. :winke:
So Les is out for 2 months. That leaves 2 fit centre halves for EPL, Europe, and League Cup. What an excellent transfer window. And what a masterstroke sending Caulker out on loan. Do you remember the days of Charlie and The Thudd in central defence? Do you still have nightmares?
Charlie and Thud in central defence might now be a luxury. Are either of them actually fit? The usual injury crisis headlines and coming up more HR avingagrumble about the RopeyCup no doubt. Why are we always having so many injuries. Its not as if we are just on an unlucky run , we ALWAYS seem to have more injuries than everyone else. Just hope Ledley can recover for Sunday and Kaboul stays fit. What is the latest on Gallas ?