Good evening.
What becomes of the broken hearted? It would seem they end up supporting Tottenham Hoyspur.
The game took two turns for the worse before the kick off as the news broke that both the boy himself Gareth Bale and Mr Demblele were going to both out of action. On the Bale end of things I have to express a dismay. I know people who’ve had to miss funerals due to work commitments.
In my limited yet hugely valid experience of childbirth the father being there tends to use the, ‘I was there, wasn’t I?’ as some sort of a statement to reaffirm that he still cares and still adore a woman who they have long since begun to loathe and frankly see as un-adorable. Bale’s absence to me was just yet another example of modern football being far too interested in what footballers feel or care.
Am I blaming the defeat on Bale? Of course not. Am I using him as a whipping boy? Of course not. Just sayng it’s symptomatic of things. Things that aren’t good.
Huddlestone’s gifted but lethargic calling card is expired. Dempsey looks woefully shy of the mark. Walker wants melting down and turning into glue. The boss needs to have more faith in his plan and less in the players. Make substitutions sooner.
I’m off for a cold chicken sandwich and some crinkle cut chips. It’s the way I roll…
Wow! Soooooo many armchair managers here!
Chelsea were the better team today, but we still had more shots on goal and more shots on target, with a team missing BAE, Parker, Kaboul, Dembele and Bale. Not to mention players like Sigurdsson and Dempsey (who have made a combined amount of 9 appearances in the league between them this season?) were thrown in at the deep end shortly before kick-off … and we still had a chance to get a point out of the game until Walker imploded.
It can’t be that bad, lads
Yes but for the very thinnest of veneers we could have been 3-1 up yesterday, as you rightly point out with half our team missing, some of them jet lagged etc. we were, I hesitate to use the word, “decent”. Because it can be a damning word as well. And some of our contributors on here have been a bit harsh on the lads. But when our guys are back we can compete with the best as we showed at OT the other week. Lets hope in the away fixture at that dreadful place we can break our hoodoo.
If I had missed my kid’s birth I would never have got over it to be honest.
So full credit to Bale for putting life over football.
I’d have missed my own feckin birth if I had the choice of turning out for my beloved Spurs…….against any opposition I might add…….
Thats the spirit.
I was at the birth of my two kids, and I don’t buy into that you have to be there shit. I was dragged in by the nurses and I wish I hadn’t, no place for a bloke.
I agree mate, birthing is womens work,these women only want to demonstrate how fecund they are anyway,
DUCK and COVER
:-p
I’ve done 2 births, the gas and air was excellent both times.
I think if Bale felt he had to be there, then he had to be there.