Good morning. Four o’clock tomorrow and it’s our 4th Premier League outing and 5th game under the human of immense dimensions himself, the Ginger Ninja aka GFG. It’s not overstating things to say that just about everyone was buoyed by the performance against Lazio, if not the actual result itself. One aspect that merits yet another mention is that we really demonstrated the merits of possession play. It’s stating the flippin’ obvious, but if you’ve got the ball, the other fella ain’t. The game-play itself is far more demanding. The pressing game doesn’t carry passengers. You can’t drift in and…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Good afternoon. Here are this weekend’s Premier League fixtures for what is now Game week 5 and how I think they might pan out. Swansea vs Everton Could well be a brilliant game for the neutral. Moyes appears to have got boys playing some pretty excellent football opposed to just just surviving. Swansea appear not to have skipped a beat despite losing their manager and two of their best players. Must be something in the water down there. If Everton do manage to crack the Liberty fortress it’ll be some game. A high scoring affair, my prediction is 3-2. Blue…
Good morning. Lilywhite shirts blazing under the lights, a lady for an ‘otdog, God is in his heaven and all is right with the world. Well, you know, if you turn a blind eye to refereeing that would be more at home at the centre of a match fixing scandal and a deaf ear to the monkey noises from the Lazio fans. I’m not spearheading some crackpot conspiracy theory here, but it was curious that the game was officiated pretty impeccably everywhere other than our attempts to get the flippin’ ball over the line. Caulker’s header was never up for…
Good afternoon. The first thing that crosses my mind is that is AVB was still in charge at Second Hand Fridge that this morning’s papers would be awash with pundits, journos and other assorted intellectuals doing passable impressions of hyenas on heat. Funny old game Saint. At five minutes past eight BST this evening we play Lazio in the Europa cup, then. Other Premier League compatriots playing tonight are Newcastle who are away at Marítimo and Liverpool who travel to Young Boys. My thoughts are that I don’t really care what occurs with Toon, but would delight in Bredan…
Good morning viewers. Show 6 is upon us, a thing of aural wonder. Sort of. All of Tottenham life is here. I had always suspected there was a touch of the Pleats about ODM and but it was still somewhat of a shock to hear his revelation that he discovered Teddy Sheringham. Presumably this was when he wasn’t carving Hattie Jacques’ name into trees. There’s a post match analysis of our most emphatic, most celebrated Premier League win of the season thus far. More positives than Kenny Everett’s last hospital chart. We look at the way the press and pundits…
Good morning. Music to my ears. The boss wants to play in the Europa. By play, I mean he wants to field a proper team and restore some pride in those taking the field in our shirt for these matches. The last gentleman in charge opted for what I would call a divisive approach. On one side of the dressing room sat the first teamers who were played every league game until they dropped. On the other side sat the ones he wasn’t talking to and the kids. The latter category played in the Europa and they – through little…
Good morning. By the time the Reading goal went in I was like I’d been on the gas and air for a good while, I think I mumbled, ‘Mazel tov, you need another two and you’ve no minutes left to score ’em’ at the telly. Yes it was a massive relief but it we must remember it was only Reading; a side that AVB baiting and hating pundits had tried desperately to eroticise into the leanest, meanest, grilling machine to ever grace a George Foreman wet dream. The reality was Reading were workmanlike. Not awful, not great. But workmanlike. Our…
Good evening. I don’t know about you, but frankly I’ve had enough. Who are Reading? This season is a write off and certain individuals need to take a long hard look at themselves. The hair sprayed syrup of Glenda Hoddle had it right before a ball was kicked. Many, many Spurs fans are genuinely concerned about this …er possible … er maybe probable thing that hasn’t …actually happened. And didn’t, but let’s not deflect attention from what might well have been. A win against Reading is nothing in real terms; the mistakes have been already been made. We need a…
Good evening. The fifth in the series and this week ODM and I are joined by The Cincinatti Yid who provides a welcome perspective from fan in the USA. Given the creaking start to the season we look at where we really stand after the transfer window and how long Andrè Villas-Boas ought to be given if we lose at Reading, or indeed if we wallop them. Other topics include the the thighs of some bloke OneDaveMackay developed a crush on during the Olympic Games as we ask the question, ‘who gives a solitary flip about International football anymore?’ There’s…