Next time. Maybe.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 10:13PM Total football and the deafening noise from the Kop defeated us this evening. Back in our box we go. That was dogshit. This is one DVD the club has to commission, not for the Spurs Shop but for our inept players. That's if the club can find them to hand over the match highlights, considering a few went missing tonight.
This was proper eunuch running around in a brothel football. Plenty of movement but not where it matters. The limp lilywhite curse strikes again. Make it 66 games without victory away to a Top 4 club. Even if this particular club was meant to be struggling and without confidence. We simply failed to take the initiative, never recovering from that early sucker-punch of a goal. It wasn't something that surprised me.
Tactically, not good enough. Over to you Harry for that. Did I spot some hoofing out there? Also not enough leadership and not a whimper of the scruff-of-the-neck determination required to change the tempo of the game to suit us. Sure, we had plenty of possession, but the lot of it was powder-puff in the final third. Liverpool had the better efforts. That just about sums it up.
This isn't a knee-jerk by the way. I said in my match preview that this game would not define anything in the long run, although based on the performance its probably telling us we most definitely lack that extra bit of class. Which we know already. When we lose Lennon as an outlet we weaken far too much. Its tragic how we simply fail to adapt. Shame we don't have another right-winger who can came in and do a job for us.
And if we have aspirations we have to adapt. Yes, it's one game, but the only statement we made out there tonight was taken from the usual script and we did nothing to prove to anyone (the players proving it to themselves) that they want to step up a level.
Mental strength. Where art thou.
As mentioned, too many of our 'key' players on the pitch failed to turn up. Not sure I understood the logic behind the subs tonight either.
Overall disappointing. Wasteful. I laughed at the Defoe goal being disallowed. The agenda is alive and well there. The penalty, no complaints. Webb would have collapsed and fainted had he not been given the chance to point to the spot at least once in the course of the game.
We are lacking edge. We sort of know it deep down but go along for the ride and hope they surprise us. But until we get hold of someone in midfield who can push forward and dominate in offensive positions I think we'll continue to flirt with 4th spot but never quite pull her panties down.
It's getting boring now, all the epic fails and facepalms away from home. It was a good opportunity to get something out of this game. Nut sadly, not enough craft, guile or belief.
Onwards. Dirty Leeds up next, then Fulham at home.
Heads up, plenty more twists to come.
Reader Comments (90)
Gutted
Not a chance. I denied you two blatant penalties tonight. Muahahahahahahahahahaha
same old spurs.ur spot on mate.to many players go missing when it matters.untill we get a real leader and someone else up top who can help jd wen he not at the races its gonna be the same and harry done great for us but his subs need i say no more shocking.
Still fourth,
That's all we can hold onto.
SHITE SHITE SHITE SHITE.
Lots of reasons to complain. Webb is no premiership referee. Not good enough, never looked like breaking that game down.
We need someone better than Jenas, we need a wiley centre forward, we need a plan B.
Tonight was our chance, and as a club we let ourselves down, we rocked them for a few minutes only at the start of the second half(if at all).
Now what?
FA Cup win?
No chance
Gooners top, after being behind, there is your difference, normal service is Officially resumed.
FFS COME ON YOU SPURS
Bugger. Not good enough. Bucking the trend is not something we do well.
Deafening noise? sounded pretty dead to me. Linesman who does'nt know the rules robed us of a goal that could of changed everything.
About from that we were pants, not enough battle in every area, the players dont seem to want it enough and thats why we will finish 6th at best.
Is howard web taking it up the ass from wenger. One thing is for certain he sure likes to fuck us.
I did mention on someone's blog after Saturday that I would have liked to see Rose play a part, so that we could attempt to replace Lennon with at least some pace. The Mod/krank winger partnership, great players though they both are, doesnt seem to be working. Mod just wants to drift in so we have no natural width apart from Bale who at least is a trier. I hope we dont have to play Krank or Mod and not both, but not convinced. And another thing,why start King if he cant finish games - I think he hasnt managed to finish at least half the games he's played this season - whats the point (especially when we hadnt let in a goal for weeks anyway). Its horrible to say it, but looking at our games with/without Azza this season, we are a one man team. I need Davspurs to come on and tell me we deserved to win but Liverpool cheated us by crushing and snorting Fishermens Friends or something.
Normal service is officially resumed in that the Goons score a leveller after Gallas nearly decapitates a Bolton player while, after 3 penalties for shirt pulling in recent weeks, Howard decides that the tug on Crouch was the moment to admire the architecture of the Kop. Not to mention another goal that wasn't.
I agree though that we didn't show enough fight. You kind of must start think 'what's the point' though when you have to turn out against 12 men away from home EVERY time you play the SkyMurdoch Plc 4?
So for anyone who has ever stood up for Jenas in any way....there you go. What a load of shit. The quicker we ship him off to the Hammers, the better.We need more quality. Not signing the same sub standard rubbish.
I have tried to warn you but no one believes me cam any one tell me apart from me said Kuyt would be the player all over the field and Carragher I live 12 miles from these cheating bastards and Stoney and other wont believe me about Ephedrine abuse you can ignore me but my blogs have bean all about tempo and the other cheating bastards are Arsenal and Fabregas and ARSHAVIN RED FACE . wAKE UP AND LOOK AT CARRAGHER IN THE FIRST FEW MINS
definately need someone to play with palacios in midfield. even if it means splashing out £20 million on someone decent. i know its easier said than done but huddlestone or jenas is NEVER going to get us anywhere near where this club should be. Also i know he's a great player but i really would be tempted to cash in on modric (i'll probably get abuse for this). he's got all the skill in the world but im affraid when you need to battle away from home he's a luxury player we cant afford and at the sort of price we could get for him those funds could get us a world class midfielder with some bollocks. At least krankjaer can put a challenge in when needed but i thought modric was lucky to be left on by Harry today, especially with Rose on the bench. I also didnt get the Ledley King for Bassong substitution with 10 mins left. Where losing 1-0 for fuck sake. Might as well get Rose, Dos Santos or Pav on for ten mins and put Palacios at the back.
I know its probably an over reaction because we are still 4th and 18 points better off than this point last season but it looks to me that this team simply isnt good enough to go to the next level.
his dad was a bald cunt as well
Deafening noise - Spooky is taking the piss.
Hope Levy had a good look at this because he will have seen whats wrong with our squad.The weee man is injured and no plan B.Can someone tell me was Modric playing because i never saw him.For me he was our worst player and if chelski came now with a offer of Cole +20ml i would snap it off .We need a quality man for Defoe as said and we need to play the same defence for a while which means so long Leds and Woody.If we were to finish 4th how could we compete next season with 2 CHs .Coaching foe Leds and bye to Woody and get in replacements.Sort out the problem in the middle of the park as to who plays with Wilson and who replaces him when he's not there and then see how we go until then we will not break this top 4 curse.
Do agree on the Ledders/Bassong thing. I don't think the 'chuck on Gio' thing is the answer everyone thinks it is, but it at least shows intent. We need some 'up for it' right now... And not the Ephadrine that Davspurs has been talking about all over the web.
davspurs you wrte your comments all over the place, same topic each time, dont you think these players are tsted for stimulants???
A superb summary of tonight's routine weak showing away at a 'big' team. As gor Howard 'i'm a bald halopetia cunt' Webb...he seems to save his most appallingly bad decisions for our biggest away games! This man should not be allowed to referee even the blue square!! Well at least we have Leeds at home next...banana skins anyone??
Too many pretty boys who think they have achieved something, not enough players willing to put they foot in.
So Jenas starts his first game in god knows how long and looked lightweight throughout, I would have put modric in the middle and Dos Santos on the right. Dawson seemed like an apprentice alongside King. When he Partners Bassong, memories of Villa away, he takes charge and does a top job.
No doubt Howard Webb did another job on us tonight, Crouch gets raped in the 1st half, with no penalty and the goal that never was...... Mendes, United anyone?
Man City will kick on and claim 4th, our big chance was this season, now City will replace Liverpool at the top table in the Premier League. With the money they have to burn it's no surprise.
I feel we do need a Van Nistelrooy type player (Huntelar would do) I would also like to see Bale pushed into a left winger role once BAE is back fit, Bale is the only player who in the last few weeks can come out with any reason to be pleased with themselves
If bassong had played from the start it would have allowed us another sub in the last ten minutes. Gio could have given them extra problems instead of damage control!
what do you do when your a goal down with only a few minutes left???
Bring on Seb Bassong:?
We had Pavlyuchenko Giovani & Rose on the bench.
Bassong had a nightmare for those few minutes but in fairness to him he should have started.
Harry got it so wrong, the players bottled it, the 2 in the middle were brain dead, defoe was bad but he won more headers than crouch, once again Gomes and Dawson did well, the croats wery poxy and Gareth Bale !
Fook it , bring on our old feeder club.
early goal heads dropped , and shocked the players ,well the hell of anfield , goal which was a goal disallowed thankyou ref you son of a bitch yet again you done nothing to help spurs yet again you fucked us like you did with penalty at united when were 2-0 down and wone 5-2 your a cunt ref and someone paid you a handsome some or sliped you length more then like torres , what utter crap did anyone have a good game everyone always talks up the strentgh of the spurs squad where were today , i had a feeling it was not our day smoggy in the moring and i felt i had got ahead of myself telling the guy in the shop we can score 3 and we would win 3-0 , what the fuck i lost £10 , not only that gunners went top man city have a game in hand , harry said pav was good in traing so throw him on for fuck sake what a load of crap , we weren't at the races wilson (the general ) was generally awaful lucky not to metion he almost got sent off we missed modric even though he played( several passes off key ), where was niko , no lenneo fucked us totally, and made us look bland lifeless and playing a supposed secong string livercunts the question is what do we do next do we roll up our sleevs and push forward or do we roll over like cunts , i seen this spurs team do this before memories of yester year harry also said they played well and they deserved it and we had players who were below par , sorry aint you the guy that field the team , levy you motherfucker pull out the check book and spend some money on a real centre a real midfielder and let pav go harry if you your only gonna tell him to jog up and down the tough line , our players need the balls some fucking stell , and thats all i question do we have the bottle harry keeps talking about anifeild and the fans about how fucking great they are well mate been a spurs fan my whole life and we pay your fucking wages so tell your team to come out like men and put on a great fucking show , where the shirt with pride or dont wear it at all .....................
The curse of Bale continues .......
Last season, Spurs 2-0 up at old Trafford - Webb wrongly gifts UTD a penalty.
This season first game at White Hart Lane - Spurs 1-0 up, Webb wrongly gives Liverpool a penalty.
This season, Spurs 1-0 down at Chelsea - Keane obviously fouled in the box, Webb says so penalty, yet doesn't book Keane for diving.
Tonight, Spurs 1-0 down, Blatant shirt pull on Crouch, Webb gives foul the other way. Later Defoe scores a perfectly fine goal, Webb rules it out with no good reason. Later on Crouch gets fouled in the box, referee says no pen, awards offside against Defoe, without him being offside.
What's Webb's problem with us?
Anyway you cut it, a goal changes a game and whilst we were pretty pants (and we were) a stone walled penalty for Crouch and an honest to God goal (read the rules) for Defoe shows that this game isn't as clear cut as the result suggests. Again, we weren't great. Harry should have made a better selection (Bassong starting instead of King) better subs (bringing on Dos Santos/ Rose to provide an attacking threat). Jenas was pants, Modric was a soft touch and him and Krancjar were so obsessed with coming inside that we looked narrow and had no width and the wrong sub was made IMHO.
But to the crux of the matter, HOWARD WEBB. What a PRICE CNUT!!! When it was posted on the forums that he was the ref, I thought "He's ManU, it'll be reet" How wrong was I. You don't know your job and the shouts went all the bin dippers way.
We need to stop this one dimensional play when Lennon isn't available and/ or we are away from home. As soon as the team sheet went up tonight I think we all knew what the scousers were going to do. We need to sort this before Leeds and Brum because everyone now knows that once our midfield is neutaralized we are fucked. Its happened too many times this season.
Come on Harry, sort this bollocks out
COYS
his problem is he is a big German,Baldy,Nazi, yid hating cunt.
Most of us love Luka but like Keane he slows the play down so much when he gets it and the game tonight was a prime one.He did have our only chance in the first half but thats not enough.Play Bale on the left wing when Assaouu or however you spell his name gets back and let Niko have the middle with Lennon on the right.Can't see Arry doing this but would give us something more in the middle and speed on both wings .As for the pool game bad night at the office best player for me was Bale at least he tried ,the others just turned up.
Davspurs u really nd to stop talkin such bollox!we lost not cause the ref cheated not cause the anfield roar(lol)not cause the scouse boys r taking steroids we lost cause we didnt fuckin turn up simple as that!every player bar bale and king should take a long look in the mirror. Im fuckin sick and tired of excuses from us spurs fans we were shit should have lost by more! Oh and while im ranting harry hotspur is a cunt all itks are cunts and sol campbell needs 2 catch aids and die rant over!
Another reminder that we really are the great pretenders. I agree with Timmy that 6th will be the best we can do come end of the season. Harry's a good bloke but he's no top 4 manager.
How we get aways cancer sick head Webb away to Man U,Chelsea,Liverpool?How Everton cld get penalty for pulling shirt we can't?how obvous was today after 'sorry i did it wrong with man u penalty,and silence after chelsea miss-given penalty was silence) the side refs control the game?I'm sick of living in a 'free' world were need to feel foolishly suporting our team and keep runing in same circle of funny shits one after another.1 goal down-rigt back for right back?how long thats going to be on and on untill you start think The Manager may don't want to win the gAme?Why not pav in for right back?why not Dos Santos in for Niko wich was our most likely playing football middfielder?Modric had a poor game,JJ anonimous,Bale runing like a chicken and no matter what time is on the clock keep fancy doing his favorite 1 on 1.The team is there,changes need to be done,just no one to do Managment.Raffa is on and on to defence the team and fight for them rights-Harry is TV star we nintedo advs.Same old Tottenham for past 20 years-when we have a Manager for over a 5 years period we cant talk about top place.As simple is that
I said it once i'll say it again no leaders on the pitch, no winnners to be seen king is a spurs legend but what has he won dam all we need a least two pro's who have been there and done it. One would have to question harrys man management skills if he can't motivate his players for a game like tonight no one turned up they should all get fines. Why change dawson and bassong partnership, no need too keeping clean sheets he changes it around and we conceed after 6 mins,chasing the game away from home, why not give pav a go or just sell him now and get somebody in now instead of leaving it to the last minute on deadline day.Jeans has no balls time to go. Why not give gio a go we needed some width tonight instead of humping up long balls to crouch playing into the greek dudes hands all he can do is head the ball.Liverpool were shit we we worse
Negative, spoiling time wasting crap. An insult to football that a FOOTBALL team were beaten by a team in red resembling Wimbledon FC in the 80's on a bad night, aided and abetted by the either inept or cheating officials
right on davspurs - dont let the criticism put you off - just had some sudafed myself and went for a nice jog (sprint) - thoroughly recommend it.
Seem to remember blatant pens not given our way at the Lane when you beat us at the start of teh season. You made your own bed in reality....Harry going on about no better time to beat us, Basson saying he would keep Torres quiet (He couldnt even keep Ngog quiet), shouldnt have sold Crouch and Keane etc.....
We have been crap all year but still up there for 4th. You lot have been lauded as has Harry any yet only 1 point ahead. Should have kept Bent and left Keane where he was if you ask me as I know who I would rather have. But good old Harry wont be slated for that by the good old London press
What you mean blatant pens not going your way? The pen you got at WHL wasn't a pen, Gomes Clearly got the ball, I remember it.
Don't worry the same lot of players will be off to China Whites or some other London nightspot to get shit-arsed and screw groupies before the weekend. There is no real belief or mental strength in this side and our chancer manager just doesn't know how to develop it. It's no good moaning about the Gooners, when they were 1-0 down after a bad first half they came out and turned it round, we don't have that sort of character.
No Lennon = No width. How many times could you have thrown a handkerchief over half a dozen white shirts collected around the edge of the 18 yard box?? Every time the PSB started he nearly had someones eye out FFS.
Harry Redknapp is the Del Boy of football. Always looking for a deal and thinking he's within reach of something big only to have it snatched away. A spell at 4th is as good as it will ever get under this regime.
Sean You are a typical Liverpool supporting pratt! Blindly biased .If it wears red it must be great. Spurs played below average tonight and still made Liverpool look like lower league cup fighters. As for your attack Redknapp, look no further than the deranged idiot Benitez.
How can such a shit team be just one point behind us???
For fifty years now Spurs mostly buy only soft, without any indent to fight and without a strong personality and a winner's mentality sub standard players. If you guys don't see that and don't have realised it, its a pity. If Modric is a world class player then I am the Holy Father of Rome. The only world class player we have at the moment, although he doesn't have a winner's mentality, is Lennon.
What a fucking joke luke do you live in a fish bowl who the fuck is running the FA BARWICK my Liverpool this is not a reaction to us getting beat I have warned you about Ephedrine and High tempo and don't tell me MY blogs allover the place because my brain is full of beer because of what I new was coming . You can call me stupid a twat what ever but tell me why we never had a inch to move and Carragher and Kuyt where energized by me before they kicked a ball and the penalty was given also .My blogs where all about energy and if you watch the game now you will see the tell tale sines of EPHEDRINE red faced running after the ball and never tiring , and has for Testing PISS tests are being hid at home games because you cant watch someone pissing the new Blood test will solve that but only ten players have been selected to take part instead of thirty..Lets get one thing straight here making excuse es for a team that has bean beat by a better team is shite but I now on my children's life's this team and others are using the energy drug Ephedrine amongst others and for me to get abuse from the very people that love the same team is worse than the teams cheating .MY blogs have also said it makes no different who is missing they will still perform look at our games we have lost and three things stand out tempo players missing and the desperation for points.I wish on my LIFE that Uk SPORT back me and I wont need to look like a stupid get making excuses for my teams displays. please look beyond our players and look at LIVERPOOL weakened TEAM if that game dident show my knowledge nothing will. Sad Spurs
utter crap!!!
these midfielders couldn't pass a good shit if they had chronic Diarrhoea.
strikers who couldn't find space
defenders who look to play passes along the back line
forfuckssake!!!!
i hate to say it... but look at the gooners & that's where we need to be.
& to top it all i'm in for a shed load of piss taking from my scouse mate who i told was going to be upset after tonite.
i wish i could go into hiding for the woeful shame i feel (just like the spurs boys tonite did)
I guys Started to moan about the ref. a day earlier than the game. U r still bitching and will do the same everytime u play top 4 team.
I'm happy u lost and happier we won coming from two goals down. You see what top 4 team is made of? They got red blood in them..... not 'girly' white shit.
Spooky..... Top quality bitching have us read today. Love it.
Glory glory to Gunners!
Top of the world!
The game told me that we still need our talisman... obviously. I dont know if putting Mod in the middle will do it.. it may though. But we need something we dont seem to have.
i want adriano
This is it folks because you cant go telling your mates Davspurs is right because you will get told to fuck off and the sad thing is I am right because I live 12 miles away from the team that started all this ABUSE and its me thats taken all the flack for telling the truth and all I get is piss taking but if one of you met me you would think differently .Over the years I have fought with scousers when my team scored at wembley steve Archibald and being the only fan down the liverpol end I celebrated Spurs goal and the Scousers had a go and I told them to fuck of so do you think that making the excuse about energy is a lie .No WAY but if it is wrong to say this then my team are not fit and should stop deluding the fans and our fans should stop asking for new players because Liverpool showed us we are el12 players short of top four or is my information right you decide I will stop telling you lies.
Nearly forgot tthe last time Liverskint played this well was MAN UTD AT HOME and by this reasoning we are worse than reading. Wake up and smell the Energy
Did anyone think for one second that ANYTHING was going to happen when Keane came in.
Seriously. Can Pav be that bad? I think I'd rather see him than c&nting Keano.