Good morning.
The FA Cup. The Budweiser FA Cup. The Third Round Proper off said competition. Triffic. But will it be? Forget the dismal prospect of one of Arry’s cut and shunt sides being fielded. I’m talking atmosphere.
The West Brom game atmosphere was frequently morgue-like. Despite all the good on the pitch it appears to be an uphill task to generate much off of it.
My joy of watching Spurs at The Lane over the years has ebbed away. Talking to a pal of mine who made the trip to Swansea made me quite jealous of what they have down there. The signing and ‘continental’ chanting from all around The Liberty was simply brilliant.
Newcastle United may have bored us all to with an inch of lives telling us what passionate fans they are; but again the atmosphere at Sid James’ Park against Manchester United was extraordinary.
I can’t ever remember experiencing an atmosphere as naff at an away game as some of the home ones I’ve been to. Readers may have grasped I adopt a zero tolerance on those that seek to gain some dellusional oneupmanship for being regulars at games: so the fact that these clowns brag about hogging a seat whilst being mute pretty much says it all.
If you are attending this afternoon, be a love, buck the trend …and make some bloody noise.
I was rehearsing with ODM and used the line there that fans like me appear to have found their place. Tartan rug on lap, behind glass in a museum. Cups are officially yesterday’s bananas and it’s all about the League.
Well, the way I see it Jimmy Greaves treated himself to a pair of new knees for his 70th birthday. Yett players these days are no longer playing on fields you wouldn’t send a horse out on. They aren’t kicking medicine balls about. Most aren’t smoking a pack a day and having a nip of gold watch at half time.
So when it comes to playing twice a week, don’t coming knocking at my door with some feeble cobblers about being tired. You bore me. What are they on? Thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy grand a week? Get on with it.
If Arry want’s to keep on eye on the Everton game on Wednesday night then he needs open up against Cheltenham with a genuinely strong side and scale it back if we click through the gears and get a goal or two. Opening up with his better players on the bench, ‘in event of an emergency’ is a half witted approach.
BIOYCTC!
Wonder if the silence at home games is due to the supporters anxiety. You can see the spectators nerves getting to the players and vice-versa.
Once we are 3-0 up the place will be rocking but not sure that will happen soon as we will be up against some serious bus parkers in the next few home games!
Certainly the case for the Brom game, they came to WHL with some key players missing, played with a bank of 9 and Odem-Whingy shuffling around aimlessly…most of the fans, me included, spent 60 mins mumbling under their breath at lazy passing, Kaboul and Gallas winning the ball only to find no movement in front of them.
As you say, expect the next few home games to be similar. Hopefully we will turn up with a bit more impetus.
the difference in my attitude when i see fixtures has changed over the last few seasons. I used to look at an upcoming game and think that if we play at our 100% best, get a little luck and are allowed to play – WE SHOULD WIN. Now i look at a fixture and EXPECT US TO WIN. This must creep in to the mindset of season ticket holders as well.
As for who we play for a cup match – its a fucking cup match – we are spurs – we should play the best available. Year ends in one and all that history still means something to me because thats how i have always been. I am not happy at doing this at at the expense of the league- I want both. Unfair on harry and the players? possibly- but thats me.
Lets go out with our strongest squad logically possible and then when we are a couple up play the game at a canter. I see that being the best course of action for me. If we get injuries and players are tired for the league game then thats harrys fault.Unreasonable? yes but i am a spurs fan.
Bukkake,
Ringo,s fucked off back to the Bindippers to stir
up the racial problems with his drums.
Bukkake,
apparently he is going to stay there for Evra and Evra.And not even leave for an afternoons Suarez in Stanley Park!
I flew in to watch the bolton match and sat in the north in a season tkt holders seat, I asked him if there was much noise from that section, a definite ‘no’ was the response, the noise only seems to rise for the ‘big’ games which shouldn’t be the case!