Bon soir.
Except it isn’t ‘bon’ is it? Fakinel.
And we genuinely ought to look at why we find ourselves having been thumped by them. Because thumped we were. We were winning 2-0. We looked like a home side that was assured about it’s business. Then we collapsed.
The half time whistle was an opportunity for us to regroup, rethink and restore. What we got in reality was a half cocked exercise in damage limitation and a fundamental lack of scope and imagination.
Elsewhere…the days of Bale listening to his naffin’ agent and thinking he’s Wales’ valley’s answer to Ronaldo are over. It’s a mess. It doesn’t work. It needs to be stopped. Today we lacked width and it really cost us. Really hurt us. The reality is his behaviour cost us. That son of a bitch needs to be tamed/managed for once and for all.
And Lennon. If Azza was on the bench …er, then why?
Elsewhere another lesson was learnt. Ledley King is done. To presume we can mount a challenge in the Barclays Premiership without a full on back four is surreal. I respect Ledley immensely but nect term we need to shop for a ‘another’ replacement.
I’m depressed by today because of all my words prior to the match the most chilling now are that it was ours to throw away. The come back by Arsenal up until half time was down to spirit and courage. Our collapse in the second half was down to Redschnapps.
Where was the width (that’s what she said). Where was the wit and imagination? I have been blasted for having a pop at Arry in this incredibly successful season, but can any of you tell me he genuinely got today right?
Arry has indeed worked his magic at Tottenham and I’m hugely appreciative. But I don’t have any sacred cows. Today was a monumental clusterfeck tactically and whilst I could put conceding 2 in the first half down to their ‘enthusiasm’, conceding another 3 in the second half points towards incompetence.
Don’t know how you can all sleep after that debacle
Didnt Christopher walken blows his brains out in the deerhunter..
Russian Roulette (wouldn’t recommend it though!)
arry big ups for walnut, and “I gave him his debut when he was seventeen” :shocked2: :blink: :dizzy2:big ups for himself too.
For me: King and Kaboul lacked understanding/communication; the midfield looked unbalanced – Lennon’s absence created a loss of width, yet HR’s response was to use Bale in a ‘floating role’, which is not where he is most effective, thus diminishing our width further; we then push Modric, out of his preferred position, to, compensate. I don’t like to see Spurs teams chsing or attempting to hold out for a draw; Sandro’s introduction sent out all the wrong messages and was, frankly, not going to resolve any of the above.
It certainly wasn’t anyone’s finest hour, not the players, or Harry’s, but having to read the opportunist diatribe of some promoting HR’s removal really makes me weep.
I concur Chirpy,these so called ‘fans’ screaming ‘Arry out’ make me sick,they are probably the same two faced idiots who said we would stuff the Arse before the game started!
there’s a fine line between confidence and over-confidence.. we were so over-confident yest that right from the start Arsenal looked by far hungrier… just how many chances did we create apart from the 2 goals ?
teach them humility Arry… this has to be constant at every game… take nothing for granted and play every game like it’s a cup final
such is our Jekyll & Hyde character right now, wouldn’t be surprised if we turn on a Newcastle display come Sunday… anyway, hoping it was just a bad day at the office for all including Arry and we get back on track Sunday
As some will know, I’m usually pretty happy to give ‘Arry the benefit of the doubt, and avoid knee-jerkage. As one of the resident “happy-clappers” (at least filling in while Astromesmo is indisposed) I have this to say about the tactical handling on Sunday:
It was shit.
You’ll not a full-fledged “Harry out!” from me, but christ almighty. What were they thinking. Between him, Jordan and Bond, surely they should have the footballing nous to understand that going 4 vs. 5 in midfield with no width whatsoever is not going to work.
The truth is we never deserved to be up by 2. And although the management need to take most of the blame for the second half, none of the players were blameless. It was a collapse on every level.
As some have mentioned, hopefully this was a BIG wakeup call for a few prima donnas in the squad (not going to mention names*…)
Came in to the office this morning and passed a Spurs colleague in the hall. We didn’t say a word, just exchanged glances. There was nothing to say, really.
A SIDE NOTE TO ANY GLOATING GOONERS COMING BY TO RUB IT IN. WE WERE CRAP FOR ONE GAME. YOU ARE STILL IN DECLINE, AND WE WILL FINISH MORE THAN 10 POINTS AHEAD OF YOU. IT WILL TAKE A MIRACLE FOR YOU TO FINISH TOP 4 WITH YOUR BAMBI DEFENDERS. DO ONE.
*Bale