Good morning.
Another crackerjack Hotspur’s Half Hour and our extra special this week is our latest foreign correspondent is @dnaphm who proudly files the Lilywhite flag in Ontario.
This week we get to grips with that Lazio game and the West Ham game. Which means we give Mr Herbert a small shoeing as well as reflect upon the sad, lonely and desperately unwashed racists that seem to have come crawling out of the woodwork now the nights are drawing in.
The musical arrangements from the our resident one man house band Mr Loveridge will blow you cyber socks off and they pay tribute to Jermain Defoe and Jake Livermore.
Guest spots for future shows are still available so come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.
If I could have a wish it’ll be Glenn Johnson and Louis Suarez playing for the mighty YIDS-Please Santa Corona-make my wish come true ps Where’s my goat?
thankfuly we blew them away in the first 10 mins,gallas did look a bit worn but he is an old warhorse,it’s ashame we don’t have any other LB options,disappointing for a club our size,not even a kid
if we win at fulham it will be 9 points for the week and we can all really start moaning :happy:
do you remeber before Bennie came along? we hadn’t had a left back since Zeige …
and he was only here for a cuppa…
ziege was quite handy wasn’t he,i thought ziegler was going to do it but he never,i can’t believe we have no capable younguns knocking about
Reto wasn’t quite ready when we had him, but he seems to have come good in the last few years. He was only 18 when we bought him, and 21 when we sold.
Not a world-beater exactly, but good enough that italian champions Juve bought him. They’ve sent him out on loan to Lok. Moscow, but that’s not too damning when you consider that they also have Padoin, De Ceglie and Caceres to choose between at LB and a number of other good LM’s. He’s also a regular for Switzerland, who’ve got a pretty strong team these days.
Not that I’m suggesting we should take him back, or should have kept him. But he’s become a decent enough LB.
What ever happened to that young Welsh bloke with the big ears, that we bought to replace Reto at left back?
haha,thats true where did bale go,put him back at left back :whistle:
and yes reto did make it in the italian league didn’t he,i thought i saw him at sampdoria once too,i think we could have kept him,lefties are always useful to have if they are even half deecent
Man U weren’t very good last night, but you just know they are not going to concede. If they are behind they seem to have a Ferrari gear box to call on. But just another win for them, and unlike us it never seems to be in doubt. I wonder if you examined the stress level of the average Spurs fan against the average Utd. fan during a match the spikes on our charts would look like The Rocky Mountain Range and theirs would look like Skeggy beach in comparison. I can’t help but admire them and wish a bit of it would rub off on us.
rooney and hernandez upfront work their socks off for the team,we jsut don’t have players like that unfortunately
Our players work their socks off but United have been a force to reckon with since the rebuilding in the early sixties.They are a powerhouse club with depth and halls of success.
One of the reasons is the greatest manager in the history of the English game.
Ok so this year they didn’t spend much but they did buy the top goalscorer in the league.
The difference is the manager.
But he is different than most managers.
Thats why the fans have trust
That’s right Ronnie. Also when they are going for the jugular at the end of a match the defending team gets ever more desperate and the lunges become more reckless and the tackles more with the potential to lose the game. It’s no coincidence that the number of refereeing decisions go their way. I don’t think there is any great refereeing conspiracy to help them win, I just think that the very nature of their style of play forces defenders to be reckless and it appears (groundlessly to me) that the refs are biased towards them. Bad decisions against us at OT notwithstanding!
Yes they dig deep.They have a long and strong history and its obvious that Fergie imparts that to every player that comes to United.When he tells them what he expects there cannot be any question in their minds. They believe it.
Harry Redknapp it seems let his team play,gave them the confidence in themselves but never gave them the tools to cope when there was a problem.It was left to VDV and Bale to use their own desire to make that happen.
AVB and Wenger seem thinkers.Its more about getting back to the plan.
Fergie has it all.He is gives them the best of everything and has the history of United to fall back onto
1986-1991, won bugger all-spent a fortune-got lucky in the FA cup, but his board stayed with him despite the media howling for him to be sacked. Unlike Auntie Whinger-he didn’t inherit an established and brutal back four to build success upon (doesn’t it appear strange that since the last of the English defenders retired-they’ve won nothing?) SAF can always spend big if required, we can’t-we have to build with frugality and caution-massive difference, and fraught with the likehood we’ll lose our better players is success isn’t forthcoming and by success, I don’t mean the LC or Europa League-they mean nothing, case in point was losing Berbatov and Keane in 2008
1986-1990, that should have read
dont confuse me with dates and times Essex.Please comprehend the gist of the argument.The metaphysical comprehension of the essence of the situation.
1986-1991 when was that??????
I was in Bournemouth
SAF, became Utd manager in 1986-and went four seasons without winning anything-FOUR seasons-ziltch!
Sorry!!!
(its my tea break)
The Bin Dippers are’nt a great side..BUT..they are hard to beat , 9 games shows that. Therefore last nights result was first class..Get Adebayor in for Deuce , Demebele gets his match fitness tuned in , Ka-Booom , Benny and Parker to return..plus any signings in January…things are looking not too shoddy all in all…I think we can be content with the seasons work to date.
it will be interesting ot see if the team improves with those 3 back as they are experienced for us,it certainly makes the squad deeper,sandro looks knackered already he needs some help
Tough little run looming as well…Cottagers away ( no puns please)..then Green Lanes comes to Town on the Thursday..swifly followed by a trip to the Chels*a of the North at Goodison- by a country mile the most racist mob I have ever come across , although I have to quantify that by saying it was 1984 the last time I bucked up there !!..Always liked Everton as a football team, but coming out of there was always an ‘on your toes’ sketch..
You got me all excited when you said you were going to quantify it, and then all you do is qualify it…
:-(
(pedantic analyst humour, sry…)
You’ve left me looking at you in the distance there Captain…