Good afternoon. Well. That wasn’t very nice was it?
We were in all too many respects link a racehorse the handicapper got to. Bale’s wife went into labour. Dembele was injured and these two absences sent the dominoes inexorably falling. The worst of it was in the middle of the park. Sandro without his foil found himself drowning.
The first mistake was starting Brad. I really believe that we need to give Hugo a run of games now. He’s not some child, give him the shirt and let’s get on with it. This isn’t taking a punt. He wasn’t cheap. He’s one of the best keeper’s in the world. That’s not opinion.
Kyle Walker was finally busted. Not interested in how hurtful the Tweets were. He’s been gormless all season and we need to be thankful we spotted sooner rather than later. He might not need abuse, but he needs benching and it’s vital he’s dropped in favour of someone competent. The Forest Gump runs never impressed me and the headless chicken routine has just become depressing.
People were screaming for Gallas’ blood yesterday but with a no midfield in front of him and a lobotomised llama next to him he was never going to win the day. He did do some good work; but there seems a general undercurrent of unkindness toward him. His header out was powerful. It was blind luck it fell so kindly for Cahill.
Neither Caulker or Jan seemed to be quite at the races. Were they overawed? Well their performances against Manchester United suggest that wasn’t the case. But there were no runs, no dynamism. No sense of dynamism.
Huddlestone stepping in for Moussa wasn’t helpful. In fact it was equivalent of shoveling road gritting salt into a wound. He’s a sweet touch and that’s all he has. Like a comic trading off one good catchphrase. He struck several wonderful passes and then stood as if waiting for the applause. Desperately immobile. A desperate waste of a career.
Elsewhere we looked generally weak and a rather timid. The same old Lennon. Whizzing and skipping and zipping about but not really achieving all that much. It’s heartbreaking. Dempsey and Siggurdson were horribly unmemorable.
Villas-Boas is playing a risky strategy here with his choice of forwards and his seeming reluctance to make substitutions. Defoe is extraordinarily limited. Is Adebayor still not fit? If not, why not? This was a game where the midfield decided the outcome and we simply didn’t have one.
@ Astro.Totally agree with the above I don’t remember the last time I left WHL without wondering if the people I’ve just say with support the same team as me!!
I first became aware of our (support) vilifying and cussing out with hatred when it used to happen to Johnny Pratt ,a player that gave 100% alongside Steve perryman but was not as strong but still got stuck in
He was a player I would doff my cap to today if I was wearing one
Peter Collins, Jimmy Pearce and Jimmy Neighbour were of that mould. I miss those days. I must say after the result on Saturday, I didn’t think I could be any more miserable. I hate losing to them more than any other team. But the blog about the atmosphere at WHL tonight has been like a cold wind blowing on a Summer’s day. I admit I never liked sitting down at football matches. Is there any link between atmospheres changing at all-seater grounds since Hillsborough? It could be hairy in The Park Lane End sometimes. But I could never “hate” anyone who played badly. Or is it “didn’t perform” now? In the late 60’s the ground opened 90? minutes before kick-off and the atmosphere was generally good but if I remember rightly you could walk all the way round and there were some terrible punch-ups,(one particularly nasty one against Chelsea at the end of 70-71 season). David’s comparison between all seater stadiums and cinemas struck a chord. If you go to the cinema to see Clint you expect the bad guys to be blown away and if peoples psyche at football matches is tuned to that parameter they are going to be disappointed. Our society tells our kids that winning is everything. Every aspect of life has to be competitive and there is no place for “losers”. And the points made about Kyle Walker, I hope people give him a chance,because he can be electric.
enjoyable days watching that team all over the country,wasnt that peter wyngarde on the wing
players earn too much today for fans to have any patience to deliver what the fans expect, the thought goes that if they earn that type of money they most be top top,trouble is most are not.
In the old days the players were not much different the way they lived from the fans, but today they are treated like demi gods and walk on red carpets with film and pop stars., and reality fakers, I mean for example Ble, I like Bale and what I see of him seems like a good lad, but given sick leave? fair enough if the club permits it , but getting paid still 110 grand? unreal, what if I know big if, we end up 2nd or 3rd and 3 points would have given us the prem, would that be cushdy with you all?
All this navel-gazing is foolish. Times have moved on – albeit for the worse.
The game is awash with money. Nearly everyone in it is making a killing, guess who isn’t? Guess who is paying more than ever before?
That’s right, it’s those nasty Tottenham fans who have had their noses rubbed in it for the last 10 years. Those horrible fans who spend a large percentage of their income lining the pockets of rat faced scumbags, TV companies and a multi billion pound tax avoiding pensioner and his henchman.
Each and every supporter who turns up every (other) week to be ‘processed’ in what is now just a blatant couple of hours of fleecing deserves a medal, not the snobbish scorn of those who have spent too much time in the virtual world twittering their chattering class disgust at their own fans.
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I wonder how Rosie is?Just asking :shifty:
Hold up Fred Kite… Snobbish scorn… Twittering classes? Errr, Tummers, you’re not having a pop are you?
I mean, I love the rhetoric and the flat cap man on the terraces images n’all but I think you’ll find we’re all saying the same thing. Turning football into a media event, where everyone is expected (not hoped) to be a winner was always bound to bring about conflict.
Everyone was sold the image of the glitzy celebrity lifestyle in the 80’s and 90’s and the signs of anger and frustration we all saw bubbling over in London & Manchester over a year ago were just the first shots in a nasty vision of the future. LOTS of people standing saying ‘WHERE’S MINE?’
Spurs and their fans are the prime example. We’ve been allowed to sniff the goodies on the top table but then had the door slammed firmly on us (But the Gas Man’s inflated spending over the summer). All we are saying is that the anger & frustration rightly analysed I think by Brisbane (above) is not pretty. In fact, it’s downright horrible.
The next stop is stuff like the attack on Chris Kirkland. Fans don’t demand ‘a go’ from the off… Spurs did give it a good go second half… They demand a win, points, trophies… They always have. The difference now is that they they think it is their right because they paid for a ticket. That is where things have changed.
I set out my Shoot league ladders with expectation every season when I was a kid and generally, I’d stopped moving the fiddly buggers around by Christmas but it didn’t make me want to scream invective at Ralph Coates and send Chiv hate mail. I didn’t think it was my right to be a winner.
Shoot league ladders…..I’d completely forgotten about them!
@TMWNN
Mate, I may work online but it’s having been repeatedly stood within 10 feet of people I don’t wish to be near that has formed my view.
You are right to a point, all of what you say makes sense. But there are still a lot of moany old twats at the stadium. Yes, we are all being fleeced. Can’t argue with that. But we chose to go there and be fleeced, so a. let’s try and get some value out of our money by trying to enjoy the ‘experience’, and b. lets not misguidedly direct our bitterness at players who make honest, if disappointing, mistakes via booing.
The football ‘experience’ is all an illusion really. But we buy into it, so we shouldn’t really complain when the shine rubs off it every now and again. We only have ourselves to blame for spending the cash after all.
* via booing and more importantly, online trolling and abuse. Walker didn’t invent capitalism. All he did was fall over!
If the stadium were full of the rosette and rattle brigade (‘mega’ supporters) who watch in a sepia tinged haze, there would be no limit to the kind of liberties the club would take.
No one likes or wants to accept it, but we’re heading down the exact same road as The scum. The new stadium will have more corporate hospitality, more plastic happy clappers and less of the noisy ‘vermin’ who are increasingly being priced out. This will lead, as it is now, to a completely flat atmosphere.
NO BOOING THEN :shocked:
For ‘the club’, read ‘parasites’.
Don’t quite follow,please explain(I’m serious.