Good morning.
Far from as bad as it has been. That would be my overall sweeping statement type analysis. Certainly far more positives than negatives so let’s have kick off with the bestest bit.
What a goal. Churlish of some to dismiss such a sensational strike as simply anuvver couple of mil on his transfer fee. The boy has class. Defoe is one dimensional and crucially did not score last night. My argument in support of Pav ends with anyone looks good playing alongside Adebayor.
And so to the Gomes business. Has the rest done him good or is he a man playing well beneath his pay grade due to a bad case of perception? The answer is, ‘We’ll never know.’ He will be sold is my prediction.
The stand out thought about the back four is that Raging Kaboul looks like someone we could probably massively rely upon in the future. Bassong was horrible and demonstrated why we couldn’t even flog him for buttons in the last window.
Livermore was of course out of position and that showed. But Walker and Rose weren’t up to scratch. The Rubes were a decent enough outfit – and it was only Pav’s goal that separated the two sides – but they were pretty wet when it came to our 18 yard area. Had we been playing someone with fewer competency issues in that dept we would have been undone.
Carroll is drawing plaudits from every quarter. My verdict is that he’s alright. Dos Santos is an accomplished player but didn’t seem to really find his groove last night. Azza Blud gave what has sadly become the norm – yet another – ‘just back from injury’ performance. Dull in the first half, fizzled out in the second.
Sandro was in a similar boat ring rustiness wise, but he looked more resilient and I would expect his next Premiership showing to be better still.
Defoe did little aside from make much of Pav’s unwillingness to pass to him which possibly made me laugh louder than a good Steptoe & Son. Defoe is one of the most supremely selfish footballers on planet Earth. He only ever passes if he can’t shoot. Pav outside of the goal didn’t do much himself. My defense of this would be to ask you to take a look at the team behind him.
The attendance was low. A little over 24,000 Client Reference Numbers on the premises and from this figure we must deduct 1,500 freebies for looter victims. Levy & Co missed a trick on the pricing here. They were up against the game being televised on a terrestrial channel, it not being a season ticket game and perhaps the first genuine cold snap of the Autumn.
The reality is that too many players are being fielded in these Europa games that aren’t worth the current price of admission. You want to tell me that these guys are young? Thanks for that information. You want to dispute what they are worth, don’t bother. I base my observation on the fleeing fans at previous games and the gate last night.
These games are of appeal to a slightly different demographic than those who attend Premiership games. And the charge needs to reflect that. The money that the Europa generates is less too, so the model just needs scaling down and a scratch over 20,000 can be pretty easily have seen 10,000 added to the figure.
The club didn’t complain to the European Commission over the Spammer’s OS bid. A spokeswoman said: “It was not us and it was not (rival bidder) Leyton Orient (wink). The reason it wasn’t us (tee hee; nudge) was because it would be totally illogical for us to go to a European court at a time when we were engaged in a legal process in the UK (snicker & fist pump).”
:daumen: Quality sir.
For entertainment value, you have got to love the Brady Bunch.
For those of you who may not know anything about EU law, what they are saying here, is that they and LBN agreed to break the law, and some bastard grassed them up.
What sort of a world are we living in, where a couple of ponces and their bimbo can’t go round freely breaking the law without being reported to the competent authorities?
I should have added, what is wrong with reporting somebody if they break the law?
Anyone recall last year, Sulliedman threatening to report us for allegedly tapping up Scott Parker?
I feel a song coming on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aItpjF5vXc
I think you will find there is a bit of laundered money going on hear. Don’t forget Carston Bought Brum of the two bums the poison Drawf and Baron Goldfinger with cleaned money.
Did you work at Bletchley Park ?
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Well, nobody’s mentioned, unless I’m missing one, that the Tottenham scored from a free kick last night. And even if I’m missing a glaring recent example the point remains that the wonder boys we have (Bale, VDV, Hudd when fit, others) have become deficient in the dead ball dept so I was pleased that Pav buried that one because it wasn’t going to come any other way.
Just before he scored, I was thinking to myself, “Pity we don’t have anybody who can take free kicks who is playing tonight”.
I think the last time I saw a free kick like that at WHL was in the days of Glenn Hoddle.
Gomes definitely looked focused yesterday, but inspiring confidence will be next to impossible for him.
Eunice will earn his spurlatives when he can help Bassong to look like he knows what he’s doing – like Ledley does for him.
Harry did a good job with his subs to nail down a win yesterday.
Rode our luck but basically our reserves beat a half decent side and we picked up no injuries so nothing to complain about on that score.
Love the way Sandro lines up his victims before he extends a twizzle like leg and removes the ball from his opponent.
Bit like watching Lions stalking their next meal in the wild.
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Staring over your shoulder while a green and yellow gumshield bears down on you could become the most feared sight since Graham Roberts grin.
Evening Astro, how you coping with the sleep deprivation ?
Suspect that like me, you are one of the few on here who was around when Twizzle was on childrens TV.
any one got footage of Pavs goal i was working and missed it
http://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/video-check-pav-goal/?