Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Nice deflection, though.

arse deflection doesn't take much away from bae thirty yarder

If we score another 12 we're in second.

i'd be surprised if we managed any more than 6 tonight tbh

Aie, keep the hubris out of it, we're all with you now.

not quite all

For the second time my stream is playing bombastic gladiatorial music over the top. Every time we pile forward it's like Ride of the Valkyries.

Adeboyer isn't going to score if he stays on all night. It's just one of those matches.

that was false hubris, cmon we're spurs fans

ludicrous booking for lennon there

We're gonna win the African Nations Cup!

Kaboul very very lucky just then.

these spurs tackles

They are penalties, right?

pav to score imo

Sweet. I'd been worrying about that game every time I mentally added 3 points on.

Is BAE's goal worth watching Sky highlights for?

It's pretty special. Has he ever scored anything that wasn't a 30-yard ripper against some Scousers?

You know Spurs *really* could win the league

but it was deflected

yeah watch it from the far side angle then turn off quickly

We need Man City to carry on being shite for a lot longer yet. And for Fergie to fail to sort Man United out. There's a tough run of games coming up from February onwards.

Jan 22nd though. Spurs v Man City followed by Arsenal v United. This could be The Greatest Day. But it won't be.

city home tho

that's the day arsenal overtake us into 4th mark my words

I'd love to see Spurs win it (though obviously not as much as seeing United do it).

i might sb the next person says anything like that

tottenham are like the promising tier two landfill band who had a success with their coruscating debut but face problems convincing with their heartfelt sophmore release, visibly shrinking in the bright lights of popworld while alex zane sneers at their provincial attire

I'd hate to see Spurs win it (though obviously not as much as seeing United do it).

gonna wait till after harry's court date to talk abt it. also ade still playing well, which has to end soon because its ade.

kind of assuming tonight is the high-water mark for spurs tbh, but then I've been assuming that most weeks. In any event, 45 points from 20 games (is it actually 45 from 18?) is pretty phenomenal stuff

20 games, 45 points, would have been enough for top spot this time last season

and the two before that as well

ILX search for use of word 'coruscating' is pretty amusing.

Is it that, while relatively mediocre compared to top teams past, the greater number of contenders for leaders/CL are that much better than the current bottom of the table?

i think that city compare well with previous tabletoppers, and spurs compare very well with the 3rd best teams of the past several years

the utd team that reached two cl finals weren't very good, but they were ultra-effective, plus ca change

I don't even think the squad is all that bad but what with all the injuries and ppl being played out of place, they're not much of a team. I feel somewhat similar about Arsenal, though much of their woe stems from Wenger fannying about for ages when he knew there was avery good chance he'd lose either Fabergas or Nasri or both and doing nothing remedial. I think that City cobbling together players and managers over the last few years is starting to gel (Silva, esp is key to this) but having done it to some extent at the expense of other EPL teams, they've weakened them.

spurs are at a considerable gain from city

arsenal arguably so, if they'd only spent the money

utd- have probably lost out on some targets, but nothing directly affecting

chelsea- the same i think? bridge but i mean

liverpool- ?

really, they've enriched villa, everton and arsenal, and none of those teams have exactly kicked on in the new citeh era

i think mancini has just done well in spending big money on players- a lot of good managers can't do this effectively

yeah

i think balotelli, silva, yaya, even aguero were players others could have got had they gone in sooner and with conviction

ferguson was sniffing around silva in 2009

Spurs have Adebayor for how long? For how much? Anybody else? (Doing well on injuries, methinks, compared to the rest of the league)

If Arsene had the forethought to scout out several replacements, put out feelers ahead of time, I think they would be doing somewhat better right now. I certainly think they wouldn't have gotten stomped by United.

Chelsea feel old and AVB seems like he hasn't entirely settled in.

City may have enriched them in money but that has not equated to any improvements in most of the squads. Your point about Mancini spending well on big money players is taken, though. He doesn't have Carroll or Torres, luckily. ;)

silva was incessantly linked to liverpool when they were in CL...

so was Mata, last summer

I always find it weird when guys like Silva or Torres (pre-Liverpool) get linked all around for ages and nothing much happens, then finally do move somewhere and are just brilliant from day one. It's like: what were you all waiting for?

i dont rly like mata that much

there were certainly 'question marks about' silva and torres

silva was the usual too small blah

torres was his iffy finishing, especially in his final season when he scored 10 league goals and failed to combine at all with aguero

in 2005, 2006 he would have cost rather more

It's like: what were you all waiting for?

I sometimes find that players sometimes just fit with one team better than another. Is it camaraderie? Position? Complementary skill sets w/other players? Relationship to coach/staff? Pay as incentive? Loyalty as incentive? Team momentum? A hodge-podge of all of these?

yeah, and also history is littered with many many more examples of players that were brilliant for one club and a disaster afterwards than players that were consistently brilliant for several clubs

i dont rly like mata that much

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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i know he is being played out of position, in a lame duck of a team but ????????

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

I was at White Hart Lane.

Tottenham were not great. But Everton didn't seem to have a shot on target in the whole game.

It was very anti-climactic for what was, at the same time, understood by everyone as a big 3 points.

I believe that Adebayor has added something, but minute by minute he doesn't seem to add much - his control and touch are often remarkably bad for a "top, top player".

Dawson seemed like possibly our best performer, and a reason why EFC didn't get anywhere.

Silva wasn't really an instant hit. He was obviously talented from day one but it took him most of a season to really bed down and become influential. Same happened with Modric. I'm not sure Silva would have been given that time under Rafa, who had a tendency to ship players out after a season.

But yes, Mancini has been remarkably good in the transfer market, if indeed it his his doing. Think Jerome Boateng was the only real misfire?

hi pinefox

I think we were good in a very untottenham way- central core untroubled, friedel without a save to make, good possession without overextending.

Agree with you on adebayor in individual moments at times, but it's undeniable that he holds the ball up and allows the attacking midfield players space to an extent that defoe never could and crouch never did, and he's still good enough both in the air and to feet to not allow centre halves too much ease over 90 mins.

Dawson was excellent!