Good afternoon.
The first thing that crosses my mind is that is AVB was still in charge at Second Hand Fridge that this morning’s papers would be awash with pundits, journos and other assorted intellectuals doing passable impressions of hyenas on heat. Funny old game Saint.
At five minutes past eight BST this evening we play Lazio in the Europa cup, then. Other Premier League compatriots playing tonight are Newcastle who are away at Marítimo and Liverpool who travel to Young Boys. My thoughts are that I don’t really care what occurs with Toon, but would delight in Bredan Rodgers heading back to Merseyside feeling like a condemned man.
I’d argue that it’s impossible to think of Lazio for any Spurs fan and not think of Gazza. And enjoy a small smile. So many Gazza tales. Many apocryphal, most quite true. Nice to see the Lazio manager Vladimir Petkovic has spoken kindly and extended a personal invitation to Paul to attend the return leg at the Stadio Plimpico.
So how will we line up? Well, the clues are in the quote from the boss.
‘Rotation will come further down the line. At the moment the players aren’t tired so I think it’s important to keep them playing to continue this series of good performances. For now the players who are playing well will continue.’
Adebayor is out, but to be frank I wouldn’t have played him anyway. Defoe is in form, the style of his game doesn’t leave him suffering from physical exhaustion after each match so it would be nonsensical, not to say cruel to leave him out. I want to see Dempsey play alongside Defoe and it would be cool to give Lloris his first game.
Prediction. We win by a single goal, but it would be amazing if The Lane was rocking from the off and really got behind the manager, the team, the whole shebang.If this happens then we could, despite Lazio being a decent outfit cause some real damage.
Booing, grumbling, selective booing and generally wasting a seat that could have been occupied by someone who was up for supporting the Lilywhites isn’t on. If I could I’d wander about handing out bans to home fans who believe the price of admission allows them to act like the people in the away section.
BIOYLC!
You know there are 12 players in your team
4-4-3
School boy error
Not really into schoolboys.
4-4-3 – Its the future!
This would be my team, strike a balance between stability, continuing confidence and rotation:
Lloris
Naughton Dawson Caulker Vert
Hudd Sandro Dembele
Dempsey Bale
Defoe
WTF is Deuce? I didn’t notice that before.
Its our Little Dempsey Coupe,you know what I mean
Have we got a name for Hugo? I tried spelling his surname in a txt and auto correct put “Licquorice”.
To a nostalgic Beach Boys tune?
Why not, it’ll be a bit different to the usual tunes.
Clint’s badass rapper alias.
After I emigrated to Canada,my Dad went a few times with a friend of mine to Tottenham to watch some games.
They didnt have tickets and my friend said he would buy a couple outside.
Well they got outside the ground and Paul saw a spiv and went up to him and asked him how much a pair together were and the spiv said ‘Jacks’ My friend nodded and trying tolook really cool went back to my Dad and said “he’s got a pair” my Dad says “how much does he want?”
My freidn still trying to look cool says “Jacks”
My Dad says “whats Jacks????” and my friends said “I have no idea”
What are Jacks? because I have no idea either.
Jacks –> Jackson Five –> £5
Was this a very long time ago? Otherwise sounds suspiciously cheap.
Jackson Five – he wanted £500
According to Wikipedia, Jack=£5
If he offers for Jacks again I think you might take it.
I think I remember tickets being 7 shillings and sixpence.
Standing was 2 bob or something like that.
Season tickets were 20 quid or something
Not sure the year of the jacks but could have been early seventies…so a Fiver was probably quite a bit over the odds….
It’s after the game, Jacks,which has five points
D’you reckon that Lazio will be ok with us playing 12 men v 11. I know AVB is actually Jesus from reading these blogs but even this may be stretching his powers.
we are the yids.Think Moses and the 10 plagues