A pretty damn sound performance.
Wigan were like a butch ugly woman who became coarser and even more deeply unattractive with a few ales down her. Another red card against generated by another side that simply could not cope in a coherent or indeed honest fashion with the boy Bale.
This was, as has been said at length a big game in terms of Tottingham demonstrating that they had actually made some progress. No, no one like going up there and having to slug it out with part time pipe fitters and doormen moonlighting as Premiership footballers. But sufficiently we did just that.
There were a few hairy moments sure, but that’s show business. It was a job not just ‘done’, but one done with no little panache. Not quite as much panache as per Liverpool, but then Liverpool were in a coma. Stoke were not unconscious, they were wide awake. And whilst they had plenty of drive, they were found in the final analysis to be just a bit too thick.
Player ratings will be fairer when we have all had a chance to catch up courtesy of MOTD, downloaded highlights etc.
3 points and little reason to either Avergrumble or Twitch.
Just back from the game. Great 1st half when we started really bright and got 2 goals to the good. Started very slow in the second half and paid the price. Result was nerve wracking remainder of game especially when Wigan got some free kicks around our box.
Spoke to Arry after the game when he asked me directions to the motorway – why doesn’t he travel on the coach with the rest of the team?
3 points away is 3 points away. Onwards and upwards. COYS!
gets in the way of his media commitments? likes to call talksport on his handsfree? he and bondy need to chat about the horses?
Too noisy on the bus and doesnt like schoolboy pranks,prefers a bit of mantovini in the car.
Spoke to Arry after the game when he asked me directions to the motorway – “why doesn’t he travel on the coach with the rest of the team?”
Why doesn’t he have Sat Nav? :shocked2:
I know he likes to talk to pretty much everyone but… :lol:
cant get Sat Nav till the window reopens in Jan.
When they invent a Sat-Nav that answers back, maybe he will, then again he may ask it to train with the radio if he doesnt get the right answer?
Off Topic, but read c couple of imes recently that if Mark Lawrenson’s predictions for Spurs had come true last season we would have been relegated?!! This sruely can’t be true can it?? Mind you it is Lawro we are refering too? Anyone confirm this as true?
Dick head
Tourettes?
Do you mean the 2 brothers YAYA and KOLO?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2041432/Spurs-discard-Alan-Hutton-blasts-Harry-Redknapp.html?
So is he saying it’s Harry’s fault he beats his wife ??
So because he had a fight with his Dad he’s also a wife beater? Or did you just add 2+2 and get 5?
His wedding is on YouTube, good mates with the likes of Jake Livermore too.
“So many people there [at White Hart Lane] feel unwanted.”
And it’s obvious. Once “Mr. Man Manager” decides you aren’t his cup of rosy, it’s freeze out time.
The only thing that’s difficult to understand from that article is your own subsequent “observation”.
That is, the line (from having a bad day at work), “Who wants to come home angry and take it out on your wife?” might make you think he beats his wife up, personally, I took it as him saying he’d be moody with her, not anything quite as ugly as you would suggest.
My Maths skills have always been some what questionable But if your willing to nut Your own Father, I guess You aren’t blessed with much self control.
To even mention ‘taking it out’ on the wife in a newspaper interview regarding playing opportunities is very strange, it is not Harry’s fault he can’t control his own emotions or a football now is it ?
I guess I should have said ‘abuses his wife’ instead as he clearly states in a national publication.
For Hutton himself to mention it and acknowledge it as being an incorrect way to behave is admirable.
I guess you should have said “abused”, if you’re insisting on turning an honest and frank admission of how he was feeling/acting at the time into some kind of abuse. Past tense, as indicated in the interview admission that he “took it out on his wife”. Who of course, wasn’t his wife at the time, they only married this summer. I suppose she only married him cos she was scared?
I am well aware of what people consider to be abuse too, verbal and physical.
As for citing it not being Harry’s fault for Hutton being unable to “control his own emotions”, Harry Redknapp himself has demonstrated plenty of failings of his own, swearing in interviews etc., directing his vitriol at players and interviewers alike. We’ve seen the footage for ourselves.
Everyone blows a gasket from time to time. I daresay even you. Doesn’t neccessarily make you a wife beater, does it? Neither does anything Hutton says in that interview.
He’s not the first to state these thoughts and to be honest he has a good point, last season when we played Blackpool away I came on here and said that this has got to be one of our most important games of the season if we were to finish 4th. Troutface had fallen out with Hutton and was making him train with the stiffs, Charlie picked up an injury in the CL and although he had a fit Hutton he decided to play Bassong in the centre and play Gallas on the right, the rest as they say is history and before we knew it our unbalanced defence had shipped 3 goals.
Most on here will blame that defeat on our strikers as we had more than enough chances to take home 3 points, but when you let 3 goals in away from home you are highly unlikely to come away with a win. Had we won that day we would have been 5 points clear of Cheatski and level with Citeh with a game in hand…..
I know Alan Hutton is not the best right back in the world, but he know’s the position well and is more than adequate against a team like Blackpool.
We were let down that day by what can only be described as unprofessional behaviour from our manager and I know it’s the Daily Mail but what Hutton is saying does echo other players concerns…
I forgot to add that in the next 14 we won just 3 more games….I know Redknapp f*cked up more than once during this period but the confidence we would have had from that win and our new position in the league would surely have seen us get a win both at Wolves (3-3)and at home to the pikey’s (0-0) …..
Odd to read fellow Spurs fans having a go at other teams strikers : if Ade gets injured we are in trouble.
Lots of pluses about today and a win is a win.
A couple of negatives though especially Modric subdued out of position and missing the Ade/Defoe partnership. I think reverting to the 442 that did Wolves/Liverpool for next weekend looks the better option injuries permitting.