Wotcha.
Something’s gotta give. Three games in 7 days and an physio room with standing room only this is no time to be sending out a full strength side. What I would like is a the following with a few gems on the bench if we look like we’re making a meal of it.
Clipboard Chris will himself be making a few changes: “There will be changes – how many I don’t know yet,” he said. “I have to say that where I am fortunate is that I’ve got good options and we are not the type of squad that has got a best 11 that’s far better than those outside it .”
What I find infuriating is this from the Independent: “Striker Emmanuel Adebayor is a doubt for Tottenham’s Capital One Cup game at Norwich after he missed training yesterday with a stomach bug.” Is the guy dragging his feet or is he simply unlucky? If he cannot play -which I would like in order to get him some game time prior the Wigan game – then we should run with Dempsey.
The back four needs Jan, Billy Walker all to put their feet up. So an opportunity to ship in Naughton, Smith and Dawson. The midfield is a grim business, I’m struggling to see beyond Thudd, Jake and some rosary beads.
The Adebayor thing is now officially an issue. Despite the boss’ faith in Defoe he’s such a one dimensional option I can’t help but think that right now, ‘we’re merely getting away with it.’ Teams need some luck, for sure. But I fear we frittered a fair whack of ours in Southampton.
Provisional squad: Friedel, Lloris, Cudicini, Naughton, Walker, Caulker, Gallas, Dawson, Vertonghen, Smith, Livermore, Parrett, Dembele, Huddlestone, Dembele, Mason, Sandro, Sigurdsson, Lennon, Townsend, Bale, Falque, Dempsey, Defoe, Adebayor.
Arsenals happiness at this moment is too all consuming :shocked:
Another game decided by a refs mistakes.
He missed 2 penalties and should have sent one player from each team off. Hard to tell if it was due to incompetence or he bottled it but seemed he was not going to end normal time until Arsenal equalised.
Equalisers in the 920th minute are never good – Especially when it’s that lot. I do, however, cheer myself with the thought that they’re getting excited about Reading hitting 5 past them. Maybe we should all email and ask when the DVD will be out?
Five of their seven goals went in in 45, 89, 90, 120 and 120 mins.
That’s actually quite impressive if you stop and think about it.
What’s really chilling is that Arsenal’s support was sensational. So is ours.
Our home support is routinely dismal. So is theirs.
Here endeth the lesson?
Maybe not :-|
Sensational… apart from all the fans who pissed off after 37 minutes, that is…
I was actually hope they’d get to the station, hear the score and go back to the ground, only to see their team lose in extra time… sadly, it didn’t quite pan out…
A bit off-topic but just been reading that apparently the Serbian plod have APB’s (As opposed to AVB’s) out for two of the England party from the under-21 game – Possibly Danny Rose. The FA haven’t heard diddly and are muttering into their shoes about supporting the players. WTF is going on with the game?
Plod over here investigating refs at the squeak of one person, plod over there hauling players in on US style extradition treaties? What next? If you go to Russia and win in the CL does Putin’s goon squad chuck you in a ‘missing’ cell with not so much as a Pussy Riot guitarist for company?
Something is going very, very, very wrong.
Olivers army are on their way.
Hate what the media are saying about Adebayor.. Freund says of course Adebayor isn’t happy being injured and not playing and loads of places report that he’s “injured and not happy” – it’s not really the same thing is it.. Don’t et sucked into this boys.. He’s only just signed for us and wouldn’t have if he didn’t like it here (especially with the wage difficulties).. He hasn’t been match fit or not injured yet this year.. When he’s ready, I’m sure he’ll get game time.. Lloris will be in eventually too – maybe something to do with his English not being great yet is a possibility?? Thought he’d be in after the Europa game to stay for the league – but we’ll see after the Carling..
Let’s hope we get a decent run of games out of him before he f*cks off to the ACoN in January, eh?
Seems to me he’s not gonna walk into AVB’s Prem side so needs to be available midweek to grab a chance. I like the guy but he has baggage. You saw with City how he can dig his heels in. He clearly thinks he’s the best forward at Spurs and I think he’s playing it stubborn. Maybe he misunderstood when we said we needed a striker…
Let’s do Norwich and Wigan and talk to any interested parties after that :-|