TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

do any other parks have a neutral area?

― cozen, Friday, 6 August 2010 18:41 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Any seats at Ashburton Grove above the cheapest ones...

Yo, Ismael - I got two tix in the second row of that stand. Psyched!! They are "uncovered" but whatever, w'ell just bring raincoats.

Great stuff, hope it works out well.

Full-blooded challenges are awesome from that range, let's hope that having beaten relegation Wolves don't decide to try playing like Spain.

please unlock that other thread, Spurs are BACK

not trolling here, honest, but: they better enjoy their stint in the champions league because they've as much chance of being there next year as Celtic.

i.e. none.

Didn't see the first half, but their second half was as dismal as you'll ever set eyes on. Somehow only compounded by the fans getting on their backs from about 55 mins - justified as it was, it's still a bit like Villa getting all over-entitled a couple of years ago.

The brief flurry of knockout blows from Wigan made me think most of all of the Rumble In The Jungle, actually, except that Foreman put on a far better show that night.

blissfully sunbathed my way through this

when if ever did you stop thinking of Man City as one of the big clubs?

http://imgur.com/t0Ogt.jpg

why do his tears please you so?

I'm hoping he'll tell his father to "fuck off bollocks you're a cunt".

....

srsly what sort of edmonton kebab shop owner buys glasses like that for their kid? pretty sure you'd be hating on one of yr own

That's Ben Mitchell from Eastenders isn't it?

wasn't bothered about result tonight wanted to see some new players.

found it hard to tell livermore from sandro (tv at an angle in pub) but he looked good

thought the young cb looked mostly good better than bassong? was actually having a late dinner for the penos so only kinda looked up resignedly at them.

naughton looked v good on ball and when near his man, but positioning was woeful enough. that'll come though and he looks a prospect

bentley didn't move for a teammate all night, and his passing was designed for his own personal glory and nothing more- even though his effort was there and he showed some nice touches, i've given up on him ever being a part of a functioning team with us.

lennon was terrible when he came on, keane was pretty good. pav got no service but wasn't great besides.

sandro looked good, i think i'd have him ahead of palacios for a while, because the latter didn't cover much ground again tonight and never really showed for the fullbacks to get an out ball.

all in al, an excellet performance and i cant wait for the next round.

I'm sure we did this but just in case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utUyha0wjSE

ha that's pretty untypical, tbh

So sad the time has passed for a DJ Martian/Pompey version ;_;

So yeah, Darragh, about that not playing with a defensive midfielder thing? Really needs to be sorted out sometime soon, FC Twente were just able to run straight through Modric and Huddlestone last night...

More problems caused by not playing with a centre half alongside King imo, Bassong looked allergic to challenging for the aerial ball all night. He was really poor.

The fact that neither centre forward wanted to play up front as a focal point, they both kept coming back (and Pavlyuchenko went down under every touch too, instead of using his strength to hold up play) also meant that the benefits of having the passing/movement provided by a Modric/Huddlestone/VdV centre were wasted. You don't need two guys running from up front to add creativity there, you need them stretching the centre backs and holding the ball up intelligently.

Not sure I ever advocated not playing a DM in the CL though! Maybe in home PL games where we'll be stonewalled, but usually I'd be happier with a destroyer type in there.

Still have high hopes for a possible 352 when we get some centre halves back, but again the form of our strikers makes 2 up front a very hard sell at them moment, because the obvious choice for Harry right now is to pick only one up front to accommodate VdV, Modric, Huddlestone, Lennon and Bale (or four from that lot and one destructive presence, as I said).

that's got to be my most properly-typed post all year, and i dunno why

Don't think either Pav or Crouch (or Modric for that matter) have learned to play with VDV properly yet, they didn't seem to be getting in the right space for him. That'll come with time, but it was telling that most of our joy last night came from crosses pinged in from wide positions.

Just don't trust Bassong any more, hope he can pull it together but I think the Young Boys game has left in permanent "MUST NOT FUCK UP" ticker tape paralysis.

I'd like him removed from the firing line for a while, he's a good 'go straight for the tackle' defender in the Dawson mould, but right now yeah he's definitely suffering. Without King last night we'd have suffered too, but nobody else fit at the moment.

Pav/Crouch- I don't think it's a new problem that Crouch doesn't stay up front or hold the ball up properly (particularly for his height) but Pav would definitely want taking aside and a word had (I love football grammar) about running wide and also about hitting the deck so easily.

Thought most of our joy last night came from running down the wings directly at full backs, not through the actualy delivery (Bale put in some good early balls, but again Crouch and Pav weren't anywhere near the penalty spot (Crouch six yards to the right of the 6yd box for one cross, wtf)

bTottenham Hotspur
* Rafael Van der Vaart has had 17 shots in just four league games since joining Tottenham. Peter Crouch has had just nine in seven games.

* No Premier League player has created more chances (20) than Gareth Bale this season. But he is yet to be credited with an assist.

* Spurs have kept just two clean sheets in 12 games in all competition this season.

Bale stat is blowing my mind. CMON STRIKERS GET ON THE END OF IT FFS

Have assists actually become an official thing then? I thought they were strictly for fantasy footy.

nah they've been keeping official stats as far back as the utd team of late 90's at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HWUbFGHMU

I was watching this ridiculous George Best footage from 1981 last night. "One goal and THREE assists!" quoth the announcer.

Looks like we'll be getting rid of Kranjcar then. He's worth at least 10m imo, but I doubt we'll see anything like that amount.

I read that as "worth at least 1 onimo" - need to get over myself

^ fancies himself a bit of a player imo

http://imgur.com/NpH9h.jpg

modric absolutely aghast there.

obviously arry's indicating the number of midfield slots available for vdv and luka, so get yer finger out lad.

modders deserves that, he's looked complete pony the last few games i've seen of him

should make some FREE NIKO shirts really

Man management, Harry style. Almost as funny as when Gomes rolled his hands to indicate he needed to come off and 'Arry gave him a thumbs up and left him on the pitch.

And then he was injured for three weeks during which time we weren't much cop at the back.

i don't know if modric is just off-form or if he's struggling to find a role between VdV and Bale.

really hope it's the former

Might be a bit of both.

i'd love to inhabit your complicated world, tbh, but i'm just not that guy

well, i guess we'll be a big club when we get a pet ref like cuntyberg

This is presumably United's pet ref who didn't give United a penalty when Nani was pulled? You'd think if the referee was biased to United / against Spurs, the easy (and far less controversial) thing to do would have been to give the penalty, rather than give Spurs the advantage and then send misleading telepathic signals to Gomes that caused him to place the ball then stand and watch while Nani asked the referee if it was OK to score (and then scored).

here's a stat: not only have Spurs failed to win here since 1989, not counting the time they did thanks to Pedro Mendes but weren't allowed to, they've also failed to register a victory in any of their last 67 away games against the Traditional Big Four

Things you can guarantee will happen every season:
1 Spurs will roll over for Man U.

uh didn't Chelsea fans call it Three Point Lane for a while? They were undefeated there for years.

more worried about our recent form against wolves and wigan tbph

nb&s i'd rather he didn't give a soft peno for your famous diver, hadn't booked our two centre halves for nothing as early as possible, booked your famous diver for grabbing and holding the ball, listened to his linesman instead of overruling him, not booked our captain for repeated protests while not allowing your captain to hold a fucking conference with him and his assistant.

i'd rather all of that.

arry's wrong, handball is not a yellow card

deliberate, sustained handball on the ground after not getting a penalty isn't necessarily a yellow card, but should be though- right?

when did yellow cards for diving stop, on a not-unrelated subject

They haven't stopped, have just seen a Kilmarnock booked for it not fifteen minutes ago.

+ player

There was at least one classic "dive or penalty" moment in the Barnsley - Hull game last night, neither given of course, sick of chickenshit cop outs like that.