Good morning.
All a bit hairy to start off with. If your definition of hairy of course meant you couldn’t believe we’d managed to go in at half time without being at least two goals to the good.
If Manchester United had gone up there and won one-nil you wouldn’t have heard a peep out of their lot. Just sensed that satisfied air about them that they had gone in, done a job and got out again. Winning, the breakfast of Champions.
Can I add that I am dead chuffed. Genuinely dead chuffed with the performance. The era of the shirker appears to thankfully to have come to an end. No bellies still creaking from too much festive fare among our lot. No half a mind on getting back into the warm to play with their diamond encrusted video game controllers.
So thanks for that lads. And well done.
7.845 If I had to sum him up in one word, that word would be reassuring. Like a draw full of freshly laundered underwear, or a cupboard full of lovely food. Or a gun under your pillow. He’s reassuring on so many different levels.
6.045 Not the world’s most reliable defender and simultaneously one of the world’s shoddiest attacking forces. Needs some serious coaching in order to harness what is obviously a bundle of talent.
7.432 Looked very much like one of them top notch centre back types out of one of them big swanky Premiership sides that comes down from that London.
7.432 Another genuine positive. He and Younes gave a good impression of the the old, your name’s not down, you’re not coming in sketch to Morrison and that pig dog Holt.
7.432 Some cheerful holiday racism from the local yokels didn’t deter a generally excellent shift. His aerial passing is far too hit and miss and he needs to improve or remove this from his game.
8.001 His attitude is extraordinary. Let’s hope that we can keep him in a Spurs shirt for many many years to come. Not the same shirt of course, that would actually deteriorate into a human rights issue.
7.765 His appointment as captain sends ripples of satisfaction through the Tottinghamsphere. He talks to his team mates and appears to be rather useful when it comes to asking referees what’s occurring in their tiny minds.
8.439 The egg that binds. Try baking without eggs. Go on. Off you go. We’ll wait. We’ve got as long as you need… See? it doesn’t work. Without him we wouldn’t even be half baked. And that is science.
8.455 Passing wise, he can place an emu strapped to a grandfather clock through the eye of a needle, yet unless his corners are taken short they seem routinely not to find a team mate.
8.797 His early shots made me swear, but not as joyfully as those that went in. He was pretty much unplayable. Roddy McDowall would have been proud of his celebratory ‘simian reel’.
7.992 It is a wonderful sight to see him in the shirt. He smiles, he thinks, he grafts and more often than not he delivers. The wit and variety he offers make him well worth a monster fee. Let’s pray we get him long term.
I was gobsmacked in my own telly room last night.
The boy Bale.
You know the felling when you are watching excellence and you get the lump in your throat that tells you that you are witnessing a phenonema?
Well, I got that feeling last evening as, and when, he scored his second.
Anywhere. He can play anywhere in front of a back four.
This is ‘Spurs. My team are playing such stunning football that I await games with that anticipation that dares you to release the fifty year old emotions since we were last great. We’re not there yet. But we are so close.
We’re on the cusp. If we can keep the likes of Modric, Bale, Sandro, Kaboul and PNB fit and happy, we will achieve something we haven’t seen for decades.
We are attracting fans, too. We must be replacing the likes of “the SKY four” as the most popular team to watch around the world. Those fans who poured their hard earned cash on Manc and Scouse shirts in the middle and far east must be tuning in to our upwardly mobile progerssion!
I’ve held off posting until I spoke with my L’pooh, Arse, Chavscum golfing buddies.
They don’t disagree with me – though they are starting to take the piss. Something they’ve never done ‘cos we were never a threat.
COYSS
All the norwich are a good football team, arnt scared of anyone bollocks pre match…..fucking pub team, fuck off back to the chumpionship, shouldnt have even been on the same pitch as our lot, spurs= football team as opposed to norwich= inbred wankstains
You won’t say that when they take points off our rivals.
Where are you from, exactly?
Exactly.
This may be a wild stab in the dark but i’m guessing he ain’t from Norwich :whistle: ………
They might be “inbred wankstains” but I don’t remember them burning down their own gaff.
Better than burying your head in the sand and to allow yourself to be continuously treated like sh*t by the ‘powers that be’.
What people and their dominatrix do in the privacy of their own home is none of my business
you look a bit like Modders dont you think?
Watched Walker hit row Z in the stand, Bale go on his own wnen Ade was central in space 15yds out, then Ade went down, i thought oh no hamstring but my despair was short lived (90secs) as he was up and at it before you could say onedavemackay, HT and i went for food, just as i returned the Boy scored, caught the replay and the rest is history, that was when the Bacardi took over and i have just rejoined the human race. Can it really get any better than this ?
Not sure it can. Rum is such a great drink.
My current playmate has no interest in football but decided to join me on the settee and within 10 seconds Baler scored the first. She tried to leave soon afterwards but I kept her there til the second went in.
Perilously close to kidknapping or should i say redknapping ODM, hard to watch the game while trying to hold down a filly.
I’d like to assure that no animals were harmed during the match
Just seen this. VdV hit one good pass but did bugger all else. Yes Walker was a bit raw at times both defensively and in offence but Your Mark is an insult. Take 1.5 off VdV and give it to Walker and you’d be about right
Have to agree, Walker was useless when having a go but his defence is improving,some crisp tackles, i rated him 70%, he is a work in progress. Sandro/Parker is magic, it releases the Croat to create havoc. Forearm smashes to the jaw are allowed (can i just confirm that with the refereeing board)for the sake of consistency.
VdV was as good as he could have been from the position he had been left in when his ‘holding’ midfielder the super, super, Scotty Parker…kept pushing himself ahead of him! What’s he supposed to do, HR tells the midfielders before the match, “If Scotty (ooh I luvvvvv I’m) and that Brazilan fella get in front ov ya, you need to cover” Sandro very rarely does, which is a shame because he does have an end product…..PNB does constantly, which is an even bigger shame because he is about as effective as a chocolate fire guard going forward…time after time we are left with players out of position and time after time it is down to PNB…..just saying… :ninja:
Totally disagree,Parker gets back into position asap, yes he always wants someone to lay off too but i think you`re crazy if you accept VDV can play anywhere and that doesn`t disrupt but Parker must always stay in position as DM. Sandro was VG in offence and superb in defence.
VdV or PNB? One is technically brilliant and can change games single-handedly….the other works, looks and going forward plays like….a dog…As a Spurs fan, I would prefer at all times to see the ‘gifted’ of the two ahead of the ‘not so gifted “work dog”, but that’s just me. Against Norwich PNB was ahead of VdV for 65% of the game…..bad management? shit player? bad captain? bad choice of captain? You decide, but don’t wait until we lose by 6 at Citeh because we don’t have no discipline tactically…..just saying (with foresight)…. :daumen:
In simple terms……VdV is GOLD!……..PNB, fool’s gold…..
VDV and Bale were given free licence to roam by HR against Norwich.
VDV has always liked to drop deep to pick up the ball off the back 4. If he does that you can hardly expect PNB to play deeper still, unless you expect him to hold hands with Brad for large parts of the game.
What HR seems to want to do is give the team more of a total football feel to it, ala the Dutch side of the 1970’S.
It looks gresat when you can over run teams and monopolise possession. May not work so well against the top sides.
Incidentally, have you noticed how often VDV comes off with a hammy problem when we are not on top in games, only for the injury to have vanished within a matter of days.
He must have the quickest self repairing hammys known to man.
I remember first seeing forearm smashes on World of Sport, Saturday afternoons Wrestling, Mick McManus(about 5ft5in) against Giant Haystacks(6ft8in)What a pantomime! Corrieogr, corigrafy, corregra, movement was well rehearsed.