Good morning.
Apologies for lack of activity but I am assured that thanks to the sterling efforts of the world’s finest digital minds the damp sellotape holding the server together has been replaced with stout British string.
The game against Newcastle goes straight into the Top 10 of the best I’ve ever seen. The stage was set for a tough ol’ showdown. Newcastle it could be said, still had the wind up ’em. Pardew has almost reached the point where he can travel to and from Sid James Park without an armed guard.
Newcastle may have in part inexplicably failed to have shown up, but we didn’t win 5-0 because the pitch was on a slant and the ball rolled in of it’s own accord.
Highlights? Krankie proved a noble stand in for the missing Dutchman, who for keen eyed kids was in a box, on the wine wearing one of those foam musical birthday cake hats.
Walker’s defending is visibly improved. That’s all I ever asked for. I never said he needed to work on his conversational Japanese. Pathe News Boy is the N17 Enforcer. Bale was a bit off the boil. Adebayor was a sensation. A revelation. Saha may well be mounting the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
The stars of the show were the home crowd and the manager. I like lots of singing. I like the manager going bonkers when the goals go in. So I was a very happy boy with all of that business.
Click on the player images for a vintage treat!
7 Carling Black Label
8 Man of the people.
7 He’s passed his fizzical.
7 A lotta bottle.
7 The Avenger.
8 Don’t take away our Breakaway.
7 Cinzano.
9 Buy British.
9 As much fun as an Atari in 1981.
10 Plink plink fizz…
9 Action Man Sharp Shooter
Thank you. At least someone comes up with an appropriate rating for Bale – 7. I’d say that the other 10 played better than Bale. SkySports gave him an 8…hype puts one or two points on top of his actual performance these days.
We are a better team with Bale out wide.
He played wide on Saturday and we were awesome.
His contributions were as much off the ball as on it.
You’re an eight, Bale. :whistle:
I agree, his movement off the ball pulled Newc all over the place, allowing Ade to dominate the other flank
COYS!
Yeah, Bruxie’s right. Bale was there, he was part of the whole thing & didn’t exactly fuck up, did he? He made a great and appropriate contibution. Here’s the thing: he’s set the bar so high for himself that if doesn’t grab the game by the balls and give a mega-star show, it can look like an off-day. It wasn’t. In a totally champagne team performance, with so many exeptional individual gold nuggets, Bale didn’t need to come inside from the flank and switch on one of his miracles, did he? It was all so balanced. Perfect. The team and the Lane crowd deserve the perfect 10!!!! I watched on TV in Portugal, as always & I can tell you, the whole world’s drooling over the “Spurs Way”.
Of course you’re right in regards to Bale, but you have to consider that many of the posts are made by those watching via the TV and not at the game. It’s not a dig BTW, but when you can see the whole game unfold and not through a camera that’s only focused on the ball, it’s understandable that the perspective is different. Bale’s presence and constant threat to move inside was enough to unsettle the Geordies from the outset, with doubt comes fear, with fear,errors will follow. As regards to atmosphere, well again, you have to feel it first hand, and hear it for yourself as it doesn’t and cannot translate to the screen however big.
Seeing that game at the Lane – Park Lane – was superb.
Singing and watching four goals go in under my nose…
priceless.
One for the memory bank!
And Harry’s goal celebrations are far better than Fergie’s or Auntie Whingers anyday-I love the ‘up yours’ forearm smash
Bale did the dirty work keeping wide, allowing our strikers to get the goals… when our strikers didn’t turn up for work recently, or in a 451 with Ade alone, Bale’s roaming paid dividends… in a 442 as Ade-Saha clearly showed he suits us better keeping wide
if Arry gets our free-kickers sorted we could be even stronger… much as i rate BAE as possibly the best PL left back this season, was he our best option in that juicy free-kick just outside their area ?
I am still smiling !! In 30 years of watching Spurs i have not enjoyed a game so much ! Great to see Adebayor at least getting some reward for his effort . Many times this season he has worked tirelessly for not much reward , and this from a player who has been described as lazy in the past ..now just to give the scum from up the road a hiding on the 26th and I can smile for months !!
Taxi for Maicon?
Yeah mate!! 2 days on and the glow’s still there for me too. And I got hooked at the lane in 1961.
This game ranks right up there with the very best.
Some of the moves & possession really made it realistic to think of Barça. Most real footie-lovers drool when they’re doing their tiki-taka thing (it can be so one-sided that the only down-side is it can get boring..). Saturday was even more exciting. It sure gave us all the kind of pleasure that usually only great sex can equal:-)))
I still think our best performance so far this year was the 5-0 drubbing we handed out to the Jam Tarts back in August. On that performance we’d have given Barcelona a game.
Well well, the glass certainly is half full on here today!!
I have been reliably informed that it will be back to normal in the next few days or so!! ;-)
I especially liked Bale’s run from centre midfield to take away two defenders in the lead up to Krankies goal.