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.
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Better than dozy Huddlestone, but not as good as Sandro. Shame he turned us down twice for money.
You should be a comedian , you always make me laugh, but so does bob Crowe .
There is no ”might be a better player” about it.. Sandro IS the better player by far! .. His display V Milan in both games was better than Parker has ever played in his whole career!!
He’s a great little player as long as he doesn’t get carried away and under a quality coach he will not be allowed to. There was a spell of matches last season where he constantly tried to win games single-handedly as a result maybe, of the praise he was getting from the fans and ahem, “manager”. He is NOT capable of this, he should never be further forward than VdV or Modric as he just gets in the way, he has no end product in attack whether at shooting or with the killer pass and usually ends up running into a blind alley or losing the ball to a defender. Sandro is as good as Parker already without having to put in the platoon type heroic acting that Parker is guilty of in order to win ‘player of the season’ accolades, what sets Parker and Sandro apart is the fact that Sandro can attack, can provide the killer pass and can do Kung Fu in the dressing room…… :ninja:
I also thought he looked a little tired towards the end of the season Harts old boy. Maybe we could approach it by giving both an equal ish amount of games. I like Parker and Sandro and wouldn’t mind seeing if both could work in the middle. After all if we have Lennon and Bale on the wings is there anything wrong with trying to battle in the centre.
Everyone’s saying it. 4-4-3 with our current team sheet sounds like a winner. Would be very interesting to see if the new manager actually implements this as playing both Sandro and him could be devestating to almost any opposition club. But would warrant signing a far more prolific and capable forward.
Either way, I wouldn’t be happy seeing him on the bench next season after all he’s done regardless of Sandros development. Using them both in a single system would make the fans very confident I think.
4-4-3 would indeed be great. The extra player would do us the world of good.
lol
Perhaps, you’re including VDV, but I should point out he’s actually only one person,although I know he thinks otherwise!
VDV is average at VERY best! ..Actually spoils our play rather than help it.
Been saying this since August,ponderous and wants everything going through him, but when it does he fails time and again to deliver anything but the odd cracker, much as he did for Holland. I’d give Modders his salary and any transfer fee we got for Rafa to keep him at the Lane. Think about..every great display last season was without VDV, but every really piss poor one had him in the side gumming up the works
We play VDV in that role behind Ade .. it dont work because VDV never attacks the space in behind Ade like he should.
If you pay attention to him you will see he creeps forward when he shouldn’t as it saves him having to sprint forward time and time again trying to get onto through balls while he’s running TOWARDS goal.
And by him doing that to save his legs it means when Modric or anyone do pass him the ball he has always got his back to goal (goes against everything you get coached), meaning he can only pass wide, or back to midfield.
The time that takes, means the other side have time to regroup, defeating the whole point of playing him in behind Ade with us playing quick counter attacking football because the idea playing him there is for him to be running on to through balls causing the other side all sorts of problems, and not giving them time to regroup!!
Then we wonder why we have so much of the ball & can’t make a clear chance.
It seems picky but it is so important as it then allows us to attack with our quick one touch passing football that we are brilliant at.
It seems we’re both already preaching to the converted :wassat:
4-3-3. Flippin smart phone my ass! Typos a pleanty.
Glenda’s favourite formation 4-3-3!
I know gobshite has gone now so doesn’t really need comment but he always used to play Parker in the more advanced role when playing with Sandro – now Parker’s great but hasn’t got an ounce of creativity in him – let’s keep him in our half and let Sandro rampage
This.
Parker gets the collywobbles when he goes over the halfway line.