Good morning.
I read the squad sheet for this evenings game and I’m struggling to work up any enthusiasm. With only two first team ‘names’ , this looks very likely to be on a par with the unadulterated toss served up against Hearts at least time out.
Why the hate for the kids? Well it’s not hate you see, more an instance of me liking to get what I ordered. I like Chinese food. But if I sit down in a steakhouse, order the rib eye and all the trimmings I don’t really expect to have duck, pancakes etc plonked down before me.
I’m happy enough to go watch the youth players. I’d part with a fiver and take my chances with the best of you. But this is Europe, whatever brain numbing spin you want to put on it and I didn’t order kids. This is Europe.
One angle that has been mumbled on several occasions by our tight lipped supremo is the old ‘Thursdays and Sundays is a killer’ routine. Can someone with a Phd is Egg-timers or above kindly explain the difference between Thursdays and Saturdays and Wednesdays and Saturdays?
Harry has constantly said that this competition isnt for the first team, is a headache etc, so why not let Sherwood take the reserve team (not that we actually have one, but you get the idea) leaving Harry free to do whatever he pleases.
Maybe he could use the time to re-introduce himself to some of the players, as clearly he’s lost their phone numbers and fails to recognise them during the week!
I watched the Spurs with John Lacey playing, Paul Miller, Jason Cundy, Justin Edinburgh, *****, Crouch I’m positively looking forward to watching with Dos Santos, Falque, Walker, Pav and Gomes, and it will be interesting to see if Carroll plays as well as he did against Hearts and if Kane can kick on – duck, pancakes, it all goes down the same way.
I’ve got (or was given) a limited edition framed Spurs print from 1996, which has Sheringham, Fox, Walker and Armstrong in ‘action’, every morning I look at it to remind myself how far we’ve come since then, and it works! As for HH’s analogy about food, I’d say it was like having the opportunity to experience a low cost buffet, a chance to experience new things rather than the old safe options you know and love
I like pancakes… What’s wrong with pancakes?
I forgot to include Iversen.
I think I’ll try the Kane again, there was something about it,an after taste that needed a second mouthful
Sugar Kane….and pancakes?
Wasn’t that a Sonic Youth song?
We’ve got an important game on Sunday, more so if our ambitions are to be realised. Sunday’s game is where we should be focusing on, not tonight. The future of our club is dependant on CL qualification not EL.The monies and kudos from CL will give us a better chance to hold on to our better players, playing in the EL won’t, those are the simple, harsh but all too obvious facts of the matter. I’ll look on nevertheless and hope I see more from our yoot, than I saw against Hearts, but UEFA have created this monster. I do wonder however,what the line-up would’ve been if we did qualify for the big-one?
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance as someone once said
looking forward to seeing dos santos play along with another run out for livermore
coys!
(regarding the time diff u requested its 1 day but im sure uve made an error on the question :-p )
First-night nerves were largely responsible for the damp quib against Hearts. That won’t be the case tonight.
A comfortable 2-0 victory and everybody fit to face Liverpool on Sunday.
In the PAOK cauldron with their 1st choice side with the odd Brazilian sprinkled in it playing?
I fear a draw might be the best result we can hope for, but you never know – perhaps the 2nd stringers can not only match them but even beat them.
Wishful thinking, Kev! PAOK are no mugs…
True, they did beat both Karpaty and the mighty Vålerenga (from my home town Oslo) to ge to this point in the competition :freu