Knee deep in the Euros and quite frankly …enjoying it.
I was chatting to a fellow Tottingham pal of mine late last night and we both arrived at the same conclusion. What really matters the most about this tournament is Scott Parker.
Parker is quite possibly the key to next season. If we ride our luck, then the season after that too. When he was on our radar I was as guilty as anyone wondering why one earth we were even considering him. After only a few appearances I was wondering where he’d been all my life.
The answer is he’d been kidnapped by modern football. But you have to take the Eurythmics line here. It’s alright – baby’s coming back and I don’t really care where he’s been.
Goals win games, yeah yeah, we know all that. But Goals at The Lane have come from all over the park while we sat about about waiting for us to hoodwink some 30+ goals a season merchant into signing.
The goals trickled in and mounted up, as our defence feel to bits. Again. Can you see where I’m going here?
Scotty Parker has been by a country mile the most influential player in the Lilywhite in recent times. Those of you who cook will know that it’s the eggs that bind. And Scott Parker was the nucleus of our our consistency. That thing we’d been missing arrived and was a perfect fit.
His derring do performances for us have made him an obvious pick for Uncle Roy. England’s performances have been, so far anyway pretty accomplished. International tournaments have rarely been something I could get my teeth into as a Spurs fan but Parker has had me settled in early for all his games.
At 131 years of age we are of course witnessing the ‘autumn’ of his career, but what matters most is… it is with us.
Now, my friends at Samsung also want to know what matters most to you about football.
To be in with a chance to win some top of their range goodies, click on the image below tell them in under 140 characters!
Did Gerrard come out again at half-time?
Same old same old… One thing all British players lack is flair and until we produce players with a bit of it, we’ll win nothing. The Euro 96 team was the best England side i’ve ever seen because with the likes of Gazza, Teddy, Sicknote we had some inventiveness and flair as well as the general quality in other positions. Even someone like McManaman could do something unexpected from time to time. Name me one attacking English midfielder who could play for Madrid like he did? This current crop might be physicaly great and have pace here and there but the game’s moved ahead of us again. Pace and power was seen as the big thing 10 years ago, now look a Spain., full of little ball players. We are still in the footballing dark ages, gotta face up to it.
You could have used just a few words.England are absolute shit and have no talent.
Dear East Stand. I think the type of player you refer to have already been kicked to pieces (or seriously injured) by the time they have reached their 18th birthdays.
All the Premier League Clubs want are super athletes. The Clubs and their fans mainly have a short-term approach and don’t care where they get the players from – reducing the chances of English players in the League. Agents are quickly tipped off about young English talent by players and staff and learn the short cuts to success.The higher a Club finish in the league, the more the Club receives from the EPL. Although this is a sound way of rewarding performance it also acts as a disincentive to a Club “blooding” young players – as they are generally less consistent and considered a risk to the finances. Premier League teams have tended to loan more and more players to the Championship and lower leagues, where the quality of football is more physical and old pros kick lumps out of young prospects.
I’d like to see more of our young talent loaned out to less physical leagues on the continent to help them to develop their passing and control under pressure,and perhaps their life skills, bringing them back for more extensive training as they start to make the grade.
I think that Joe Cole was the nearest to achieving what McManaman did at Madrid – but then he was crocked .. As you say “same old same old”.
.
Now, if we can just surgically attach Parker’s defensive nous to Sandro’s offensive zip & vision, we’d have a midfielder with world class potential.
Parker is good, and was very, very important to our system last year, however, he is a) quite a limited player in many ways b) gonna be knackered next year.
I see him as a back up to sandro now.