Good afternoon and welcome to the 13th Premier League game of this campaign.
White Hart Lane can either become a theatre of desire ringing with songs, chants and cheers or it will turn into a beer hall putsch of grim silences and ugly boos. Which way will it go? Well, that’s entirely in the hands of those sitting in the home seats.
Support isn’t earned by the players. Support is tribal and unconditional. If your support wanes then don’t buy a ticket and tell everyone you know. Nothing kills a bad idea quicker than word of mouth. As Habib told us, to boo your own is on par with ‘pleasuring yourself’ with superglue. A self defeating exercise.
So what can I tell you about today? The scent of lucky heather, clothes pegs for sale and men who bathe once a week whether the need to or not wearing Primark clothing and the scene is set.
So who’ll have the last laugh? The omens are not good. It was at home to West Ham for Barry Daines’ testimonial that we lost 0-4 in 1981.The chairman was found yesterday in the fetal position under his desk, a pair of underpants over his head, a pencil up each nostril. You cannot fight fate.
My hope for today is that we can play some fluid football. Moussa will hopefully feature and it’s really important we don’t get bogged down in a glorified game of British Bulldog with West Ham. We need to rise above the hoofing and the physicality and outplay them. Ball on the floor and brains engaged. Upstairs for thinking. Downstairs for dancing.
Bale needs to take the game by the scruff of the neck, not simply make cameo appearances. Azza Blud also needs to achieve today and not simply take part. We need not only a win, but a performance to be proud of. West Ham are where they are in the table for a reason, but they are eminently beatable.
I predict a 2-1 win. But if we embrace the idea of outplaying this mob, rather than combating them then we could do some real damage. Defoe has a clear run of 3 league games and the away section will be on his back. What better way to make them the silent ones, to make them the grumblers in the ground early than to repeatedly blast the thing past Jaaskelainen?
BIOYWHC!
The judge dropped the charge of attempted murder…
http://www.thebee.co.uk/news/national-news/824619/spurs-attack-attempted-murder-charges-dropped/
Whats the point in having anything to do with Italy?We scxore goals they are all dissallowed.Our fans get mutilated,the police takk half an hour to turn up!How I ask myself can 30 + masked thugs armed with knives,baseball bats etc manage to appear out of no where.No body saw them on the street?Are all Italians blind and slow like the Rome police force.You cannot get 30 +people in a car so how did they get there without someone reporting them.Now the Italian judge drops what I thought were the correct charges cand changes them to assault with a weopon.Absolutely no point in playing in or going to Italy from now on
PS Surprised our club is not getting involved(or are they, here in Saudi get very little in the way of press reports.
Hope we win today
nothing prominent on the Tottenham site…amazing!
Squalid little country really. Nice food though.
Is Tuscany not as good as Doncaster?
Never been to Doncaster but hear the pies are reet enough
You dont blast a whole country for the antics of a few fascist bastards.
Italy is a great place…you just have to know where to go
Yes it’s a great place, but it also has lots of bullshit and is corrupt as anywhere. Which is why I said it was squalid. Politically, that’s quite accurate imo. Sorry for the flippancy!
Politically it seems all the hot countries are that way.
I mean has anyone seen a coup lately is a country with snow
Too cold for the natives to get their arses out of bed.
Russia / USSR springs to mind, Ronnie… ;)
@LLL …The cradle of civilization is a squalid little country? what did the Romans ever do for us?
@themanfromroomfive
That was a little while back. The Greeks used to be throw their weight about a bit too, now they are proper up the swanny. Things change man, things change.
You’ve obviously never been to Burnley.
30 plus eyeties in crash helmets v 10 spurs, if aother 5 spurs had turned up they’d of all surrendered – like ww2.
Like we did- 2000 years previously- to the erm………Roman ‘eyeties’.
Couldnt give a fuck how we play today, 3 points will do me
If we cant play good footie fuck the 3 points
I disagree – 3 points very much needed right now. There is always a chance we play some football at a later date. If it comes today, and 3 points with it, that’s a bonus.
Of course I would like to see us win but it wont give me as much encouragement as if we play great flowing football.
Watched Swansea play as flowing as any team has in the game today.Their fans have to be happy..surely
Watching Liverpool and Swansea.The Swans are playing with great resolve flow and shape.Pool has been getting a little back into it but what a great half of footie by the welsh
HH, so are you going to the Lane today to lead the chanting from the faithful support you so often derise?
Dont you think Tottenham fans should be cheering and not booing?
We dont have to be happy with the situation but its self defeating to go negative right now
If the team give it a good shot the crowd will cheer and sing for them. It’s always been this way.
true.
@DJB no, I’m on a life support machine in Tehran. Does that make me a crap fan?
At the risk of being called a HHWSP I have to say that that was a rather lovely comeback. Unless it’s true… No actually even if it is true.
HHWSP BB GBB
Well that’d explain the quality of the article. Writing it on your Speak & Spell.
Stephen Hawkins blue and white army
If only all refs were like the one at the Swansea game,I don’t recognize him,don’t know his name and won’t after the game either.