Good morning.
Those bookmakers still trading this morning must be spitting feathers. It seems every Spurs fan this side of the Great Wall of China had lumped on the 3-1 win. But the real reason to be cheerful for all was Scott Parker.
We hear all the time about ‘winning mentality’. It’s a depressing truth that this mindset at Tottenham is something that seems too often be something that happens almost by chance. One of the main reasons that we have been driven out of our minds watching Spurs is having to watch too many of our lot seemingly, ‘not quite be in the mood for it.’ How many times have Spurs finished second best to a gang of assorted part time pipe fitters because the hackers and grunters simply wanted it more?
Exit the lethargy; enter PNB.
He quite simply has what it takes. QPR won’t be the toughest opposition he ever faces, but that is largely beside the point. If you walk out to every game ‘tailoring’ your performance to who is in front of you, you’re courting disaster. Manchester United haven’t achieved all they have achieved by playing like this against so and so or playing like that against whoever. It doesn’t work like that. The object of the exercise is to go out there and do ’em. Not to implement a strategy. This is football not the tweaking of a corporation’s stationary ordering policy.
And that’s Parker’s strength. He’s a good old fashioned, ‘which way are we playing and wallop’ merchant. Something we’ve been missing since oh I don’t know, MacKay?
I won’t dwell on his age or what might have been had he not been a twit and joined us sooner. You can either fall in love in the autumn of your years and enjoy what you have, or take the good out of your happiness by moping your days away.
Parker played well but him sitting in beside Sandro would be no good at all – it would stop them running about, not that I want them to skip and hold hands of course, unless they wanted to – but it wouldn’t help us one iota
Twin DMCs have 2 possibilities: 1) one always holds and the other moves forward if he see a run; 2) they alernate the holding role: this requires two good experienced players so I would expect the first choice for Sandro & Parker in together. But sandro’s development has been rapid so who knows?
It’s no surprise that we are actually competing now that the spineless, the feckless and the hopeless have either been loaned out, injured or dropped, and that their loser’s mentality has been cut from the team like a malignant cancer, allowing its host to finally breathe again.
There was an amusing cut to daffy and souper sitting on the bench looking very uncomfortable…priceless. Daffy and Pav to Russia with the young uns on thurs.
Parker is a great short term signing. Hopefully Sandro can learn from him and develop still further because ultimately Parker is playing in his position and it is not possible to play both. The risk is that we lose Sandro and in two years time have nobody.
IN Europe away when it livens up you will see both in CMF with modric/vdV & bale plus EAd
So to accommodate Parker and sandro together we start playing other people out of position?
2 DMCs is not uncommon in CL matches away and we have the quality for a 4-2-3-1 which is hardly out of position as bale/modric & VdV caould switch around and Sandro likes to go forward whe his a**e is covered. That is if you comments were serious.
Seem to recall we played Sandro and Palacious together as defensive midfielders away to AC Milan last year and it worked a treat.
Apart from giving more solidity, it means the full backs can push forward.
Brazil used this system when they had Kafu and Carlos playing full back for them.
Oh what a performance – it was fantastic !!! I know a few chances were missed but even those seemed to be ‘classy’ misses!!! I loved the flexibility of the middle five – when did we last see lennon and bale work so closely for the 3rd ? BAE and Walker were great… end of argument as far vdv is concerned … it was brill… And as for Lennon well done for making me eat my words…. more of it please
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who will admit this, but I for one didn’t expect Parker to be THIS good. He was a lion yesterday as he is every game. An inspiration to his team mates and captain material (one to carry out Harry’s instructions on the pitch). The true leader we’ve been waiting for. I honestly thought he’d come here and warm the bench/be rotated.
Agree, although my initial animosity was based on him being a relegated spammer more than his actual ability.
No shame in admitting i was wrong about PNB.
You weren’t the only one. Parker deserves an apology from me also a I thought he was another “sherwood” style buy: burnt out and couldn’t care less.
So My apologies mr Scott Parker.
About the above: no animosity for me there so let’s agree to disagree re Keane. I really wanted him at WHL and I doubt that he would have been allowed to become such a heartlerss arrogant bastard had he come. OT seems to do that to people as does Anfield although success amplifies such.