It’s all looking unusually easy at the moment for Spurs; another professional if not spectacular display at the weekend saw three points added to our early season total. It was a game that in truth we never really looked like losing. Swansea are often famed for their possession based game which has seen them claim their fair share of scalps in recent seasons. On Sunday, they were just never really given the chance to settle. The likes of Capoue and Paulinho were ruthless in their relentless hounding of the opposition who looked in perpetual disarray in the middle of the…
Author: the Gorbals Goebbels
The thought of a playoff round is enough to induce panic within even the most optimistic of Spurs fans. We just don’t like them. A recent history of European adventures that have in the main begun with disappointment. A series of ignominious marches back from the far reaches of the continent have often left the club very much on the back foot. Young Boys, Anorthosis and Krakow; we have shown our lack of appetite for the early away day before. So 1-1 score prediction, pretty optimistic really? My geographical knowledge doesn’t really extend far past GCSE coastal erosion in Norfolk,…
Job done on Sunday, nothing more and nothing less than what was required. It was hardly a sparkling game but then again what did we expect against a Crystal Palace side that showed exactly the kind of resilience that will be so crucial for them in the coming year? I could have given you an in depth account of the game itself, but I saved that for a bemused Palace fan on the train back. The thing that impressed me most about the occasion was not the game itself but the contributions that the Selhurst faithful made to the whole…