Good morning.
Reading away and tension is palpable. One obvious positive before a ball is kicked is that we’re playing away. So the Tottenham fans in attendance will do what great fans always strive to do. Despite the inevitable aggravation of football travel, despite being perpetually outnumbered they will sing, cheer, encourage and support.
The shiftless know-alls that have taken to infesting the once great White Hart Lane won’t be able to sneer, grumble, boo then leave early. I can lay into home fans all day long and it won’t make a dent, won’t make one of them blush.
We’re not beating everyone 5-0, it’s Levy’s fault, it’s AVB’s fault, they’ve paid their money and are so terminally brain damaged they have confused the price of admission with demonstrating commitment. I’m sick of you.
And breathe.
So far Reading have drawn 1-1 at home to anti-footballing Stoke and lost 4-2 away to the Blue Racists. Dangermen? Well on balance we should expect more of a team effort rather than any staggering solo performances but Pavel Pogrebnyak is an obvious threat. And if you believe in Brian Glanville’s immutable law of the ex then so too will be Chris Gunter.
I’m going with Brad for no reason than it might be useful for Hugo to watch us play a Premier League game (if indeed he hasn’t already). The back four has to have Jan and Billy paired to offer Benny and Kyle the stability they naturally need.
The middle of the pitch is important here from the perspective that without being patronising we need to outplay Reading. Ball on the floor, forward passes to feed the wizards further upfield. So no Livermore and I’m therefor pairing Dembélé with Sandro.
I cannot place enough emphasis on the players resisting the urge (hello Brad, hello Benny and hello Kyle) to hoof the ball away. This is the opposite of ‘a good thing’. We will not beat Reading by indulging in a fiasco of hoof ball and head tennis.
Azza, Siggy and Bale with Ade. Dempsey on the bench because I believe he’s not going to be 100% match fit. Adebayor ought to be much aided by the break and should be able to give us 70 minutes and maybe we can ship on the Septic for the last 20.
Prediction? We’ll win and do so by a goal, perhaps two. As you may have sensed by my opening lines here I’m fed up with the constant niggling after so few games. Negativity is a poison. Being a hugely intelligent person I can understand and separate in my mind the difference between online and in the flesh.
But since the transfer window closed it seems every other person you encounter anywhere is a Professor Of Joylessness when it comes to Spurs. The season hasn’t been a sensational so far, but nor has it been a disaster either.
Let’s hope that if we don’t win this 5-0, people consider what support actually means.
Hotspurs Half Hour – Show 5 The Cincinatti Yid by hotspurshalfhour
I am in LaGuardia airport in New York.Everybody is looking at me crazily (Its not unusual here)
Maybe its because Im alone and doing the wave.
Harry why didnt you pick Defoe????????????????
You sold him to Barca for 38 mil didnt you and kept the cash but didnt tell him
what are the morons in the press going to write about 2moro :happy:
erm..Kates tits?
The same shit they always do-only this time most of it won’t be said on here..for a while anyway…a long while I hope
Martin Keown on BBC Radio 5 LIVE:
“AVB doesn’t inspire me. I think he talks too much in his press conferences and needs to keep things simple. Sometimes I think he over-complicates things. As for the Hugo Lloris situation, he should have told the French manager to keep his nose out as he manages his own club.”
Then:
“Tottenham have bought Clint Dempsey in, so why are they not using him straightaway? The manager has opted for Jermain Defoe today, but Emmanuel Adebayor ended the season on fire. So odd again from the manager. Their results have been indifferent and I expected Spurs to get out of the blocks quicker.”
Then the moment we start playing a wesome his tone changes. Gooner f*cking c*nt!
I didn’t know if AVB would have the balls but he has. A lot of fans would’ve started Ade. But you’ve got to create a ‘shirt’s yours to lose’ culture. Defoe has started well and has done nothing wrong. He’s anxious to keep his place. That’s how it should be. How you get them trying. Same with Friedel. On another day, if Defoe hadn’t scored, AVB would be called wrong. It’s good to see evidence of those values, even if you’d prefer others in. Anyway, Martin Keown looks like a monkey for a reason.
everything i have heard from “professional pundits” over the last couple of weeks and especially today has been so anti levy and avb.
i couldnt give a monkeys about their opinions but if i were avb i would use it to create that seige mentality that served mourinho so well.
let the gobshite wankers serve as a motivational tool.
fuck em.
coys
and
coygfg
Great point on the siege mentality!
“I couldn’t give a monkeys” & Martin Keown = funny
We are going to be the sole focus of attention on MOD2 tonight unless of course John Terry causes some controversy…or something.
If this evening’s 606 is anything to go by they’ll spend the whole time talking about handshakes, Hillsborough and dodgy chants.
And how rubbish Brendan Rodgers is.
May take them a while to start reporting the positives but if we’ve shut them up for a while… Well done, Andre. And to think, he’ll be taking The Europa seriously.
We root for AVB
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3
Cos I love him n he loves me
We all root for AVB
:-p