The morning after the night before.
The players stand accused of, ‘believing the hype’. But it’s a little more intricate than that. There is an element of rogue ego, but the problem lies largely with the the mismanagement.
For those who cannot cope with the subtleties of argument, click away now. Here on planet Earth, there is light and shade. Arry’s record at Tottenham is extraordinarily good. 2 points, 8 games, not guilty, triffic. He has got it right on the bulk of occasions.
But now and again tactically, he goes missing. Either he appears not to have given the lads any direction whatsoever, or he sets the team up incorrectly and appears incapable of correcting it. The latter happened yesterday.
You build a team from the back to the front. That’s how it works. King wasn’t limping, he was just looking old. We’ve had a good run of it, getting away with this but the derby was a particularly grim time to get caught out.
The substitutions were baffling. Arry brings in vdV who clearly was a million miles away from being fit and Sandro who didn’t appear to know what his role was. Are we to presume that Azza Blud was even less fit that the Dutchman?
We had no width. Yet Arry decided to bulk out the middle. Yet he failed to do that. His inability to appreciate Kranjcar blinkered him yet again and despite the obvious fact that Bale and Modric don’t like to get involved in too much tackling these days he took off the only man who was baring the brunt of it alongside Parker.
Once they took the lead, we ought to have taken King off for Dawson, retired Walker, put Bale on the wing and introduced Lennon and gone at them. Instead we did nothing and made them look like Spain.
And so to Bale. It’s like watching a great racehorse that’s been got at by the handicapper. Someone needs to sit down with the lad and break it to him gently. His ambition is a wonderful thing but he got this free roaming thing all wrong. Also, we all know that he was becoming fed up with people kicking him, but diving is for suckers. Stop it.
If you look at the game from Arsenal’s perspective they showed us how the grown ups do it. They suffered a deflected goal. They suffered a penalty that was won by cheating. But they played as a team with defined roles. Man for man, Spurs probably had the better team on paper. The more exciting team on paper. But as a team on grass they were superior in every department.
Spurs need to take a long hard and honest look at themselves.
5.008 Probably went home and played, ‘One Man Band’ by Leo Sayer.
6.173 Not awful.
5.472 Not great.
3.653 Since the diagnosis we’ve been lucky. He doesn’t train, ho ho ho. He uses the chairman’s pool he he he. Well the jig is well and truly up.
3. 542 Played like he was on a beach somewhere. Ran like he was in deep sand, may have nipped out for choc ices at point. Uncomposed, leaky performance.
Should have replaced Walker sooner.
6. 444 Does the job of three men because he’s the man who has to mop up when the opposition breeze past the rest of the squad. Wings clipped after the yellow.
5.932 I hope Abramovitch was watching.
5.781 It gives me no pleasure to say that I covered Bale’s new found lunacy a few weeks back. His agent has convinced him he’s the new Ronaldo. What we actually have his Ronaldo MacDonaldo.
6.824 Defended admirably. A man who has the wit to realise it isn’t all about scoring a hat-trick and being home in time for tea and medals.
Insufficiently fit to play.
Dawson came on for Walker and screamed at him which made me wonder if he’s a gormless or had he simply not been given any instruction by anyone.
6. 732 It’s a cheap shot to deride the quality of his goal. Especially when it was just about all he contributed.
6.732 Yet again he opened brightly and when slowly but surely went off the boil. Took his penalty well.
You are missing the most important rating – that of Harry who is a good ol 1.0. No use blaming Ekotto when he has no one playing left wing to help offensively and defensively. This was I put down to Harry!
Back page of the Mirror on Sunday….THREE LIONS… Jordan, Bond and Trouty, apparently the trout wants to take his whole coaching staff with him to serve his country WTF! where did they get that from? . Said it all for me, talk about unsettling… Then to add insult to injury Arry, for a fakinel crucial fixture goes and fields a team heady with delusion. Trouty not a wheeler dealer I don’t think so.
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King has one bad game and he’s past it??
We’ve looked solid whenever he has played aside from yesterday…
In my opinion I really do think Arsenal got lucky in some respects
They naively piled men forward and were very lucky we weren’t on our A game to punish them on the break
I also think that the row Redknapp had with that gooner pissed him the fuck off and may have fuelled his uncharacteristic double change at half time
He’s always slaughtered for leaving it too late, and this time went the other way with disastrous consequences
I ahte to admit it mate but I agree with HH. King is at the end of his best – we’ve seen glimpses of it over the past two seasons but he somehow soldiers on. However the road has got to come to an end at some point…
This is the unfortunate truth about the matter.
We will need a replacement before next season
Can I just add that I think the loss at the emptycrates has suddenly made the season all the more exciting? I was geting tired of winning all the time; it’s not the way we do things! Lets have a scrap with the Arse, Cheatski and the bindippers for the Champ League spots for the rest of the season! Like the old days ;)
I would have liked Redknapp to have come out at the end of the game and said that “that performance was unacceptable from the players. I hold my hand up, I made mistakes with the tactics (ed: or lack of any) The players will take a long hard look at that performance and I ensure all supporters that result will not be tolerated during my tenure. We would like to emphatically and unreservedly apologise to the fans for this dark day” Instead we get, ” I knew at half time we were beaten” and “It’s going to be difficult to get them back up for the Utd game because of the internationals” You can’t get away from the position Redknapp has taken us to, but the question begs to be asked, is that because of him or despite of him. I would expect a manager to make changes during a game if needed. At 2:0 up we were getting over run and yet Redknapp did nothing. We then find ourselves going into half time all level whilst raising the white flag. Would Mourinio been so inactive? What hurts more than anything today is the fact that we’ve endured a decade plus of grief from that lot, this season we’ve actually been able to give them something back. That pleasure has all but been taken away from us fans with this gutless performance. Even if and it’s a big if, we finish above them. They’ll be able to trot out the fact that their worst team for years has totally annihilated our best team for years.
” I knew at half time we were beaten”
He didn’t really say that, did he?
‘We buckled after they scored and deep down I knew Arsenal would win’ – Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp
Spurs boss admits that he thought his side would lose after the Gunners scored, and states that it wouldn’t have mattered how they played when the hosts ‘got their tails up’
The man’s a star, an absolute star!!
He’s a legend……. Yesterday gave Levy food for thought.
Even he would of changed it 2 up.
cydtheyid
“What hurts more than anything today is the fact that we’ve endured a decade plus of grief from that lot, this season we’ve actually been able to give them something back. That pleasure has all but been taken away from us fans with this gutless performance. Even if and it’s a big if, we finish above them. They’ll be able to trot out the fact that their worst team for years has totally annihilated our best team for years.”
sums it up in a nutshell,end of,took the words right out my mouth etc etc
man alive it still hurts
A typical gutless display of old not helped by the tactical naivety of a vastly overrated manager.
Adebayor? Great player when he’s up for it (Newcastle), but was anyone else pissed off to see him all pally with that lot in the tunnel before the game?
Some fans on here from the light and the dark side spent all week chest thumping about how much they hate each other, when the reality is that most of the players don’t give a shit about the rivalry, and are actually friends!
They haven’t even got the gumption to pretend that the game actually means something to them other than money. What’s the fucking point! It’s a fucking disgrace! Add the lack of any real meaning to football these days to Bale’s (a scum fan by the way) embarrassing penchant for diving, and ‘Arry’s constant courting of the media, and it’s no surprise that I’m beginning to hate not just football, but, unbelievably, my own club which I’ve supported for many, many years.
What the fuck has happened to football, and why did we let it happen?
Shit!, i thought i was depressed and cynical……..
Hang on in there, Tottenhamscott. There is always a light at the end of the tun……..bollocks, who am i trying to kid!
With Spurs the light at the end tunnel is an express train to run us down.
and unfortunately, it’s gonna be Sir Alex’s express train…
“[…]beginning to hate not just football, but, unbelievably, my own club[…]”
I’m frustrated too, and there is undeniably a lot wrong with the sport of football. Still, I bet you weren’t ranting about this after we beat the barcodes.
Adebayor has been great in some games, but I agree with you, his attitude in yesterday’s game is still stinking the stadium out now.
Needs a slap round the head, and told to stop all that ‘goofing’ around bollocks on the head.
What with Benny’s ‘It’s only a job atittitude’, Rat boy wanting to play for the blue scum, and Bale seemingly more interested in himself, it does make you wonder why fans bother at all.
“I wonder why fans bother at all”..you actually said that!, priceless, just priceless!
Now now lads, just calm down and count to ten, before either one of you sa’ys (types) something you might regret :shocked:
No, you’re right Billyoffski, I meant incredulous ;-)
Do you like Rugby? I think you may need a break from the beautiful game for a couple of weeks.
Take a deep breath…