Morning Spurs fans...
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 9:32AM Morning. Good weekend? Can't believe Christmas is over and I'm back to the grind. Guess that rings true for our wee club, as the up and coming fixtures will be (drum roll) season defining. In fact most of what happens this month will be imperative to us continuing 2010 in the same vein as we finished 2009: In form and hungry for more. Shades of 2006 no doubt and a flashback to how easy it is to get too complacent allowing others to catch up. It's not actually quite 2006 though and there are plenty of other clubs very close to us and a poor run of three games can see us looking up at them rather than how things stand at the moment.
I was neither at the FA Cup game over the weekend or managed to catch any extended (downloaded) highlights, if they do in fact exist. I was too busy hitting the bottle. Metaphorically speaking. I was actually choosing bottles, opting for Tommee Tippee over Dr Browns. An afternoon spent with Mrs Spooky rather than anywhere near a radio/tv/turnstile. I did manage to catch ITV's breathtaking highlights show, and the majestic 45 seconds of Spurs highlights. We looked comfortable didn't we? Cracking 45 seconds of footage, four goals tightly squeezed in. When I heard/read reports about Defoe's goal (described in some quarters as a tap in), I was pleasantly surprised when I witnessed our boy guide the ball past the keeper into the far corner, off the side of his boot, all this faced away from the goal. Easy. I guess if he was wearing a red shirt it would lauded over as an exquisite masterful nonchalant touch. Was JD wearing red colours when he scored? No? Then it was a tap in.
I heard Danny Rose was lively when he came on and that we more or less dominated, which is nice to see. Bale also impressing (yeah, okay, it's Posh and not Prem). Modric and Niko starting in the same line-up with it appearing to work balance wise. Might be different against top quality opposition. Another clean sheet (5th on the trot) but a couple of injury concerns. Bassong out for the Liverpool game (last I read), but I think Defoe just has cramp so should be fit. I'd hazard a guess and say Lennon is out for the 14 days he was pencilled to sit out for.
The fact we played a fairly strong side makes me think we are taking this seriously. Which we'll need to do when we face Dirty Leeds at the Lane in the next round. That's the very same Leeds that defeated a God awful Manchester United at Old Trafford. They were complete shit in fact.
Am I the only one laughing at the conspiracy-laced irony that followed during the cup draw for the next round? You know what I'm talking about. We didn't get Manchester United in the 4th round, we got the team that knocked them out - and the ball, initially picked up, was dropped which meant we could have faced an away tie. Didn't work out for you this time did it, Football Association?
Finally, special mention to the News of the World who posted a non-event of a story concerning Spurs (and West Ham players) at a club on a Monday night enjoying drinks. Laughable attempt at trying to stir things up, shot down by Redknapp faster than he can twitch. Suddenly its became almost impossible for players to go out without the hacks jumping all over us.
Keep on bringing it.
Reader Comments (11)
I blame Keane for all of it. I know he wasn't in the club but surely he made the players that were go?
Also, I'd like to blame him for any future defeats we suffer.
I can see a man kicking the dog turd bin the park... He's wearing a west ham shirt.
A-ruff-ruff
Really pleased to face Leeds, it'll be an awesome game with great atmosphere :) Better than Man Utd at least, no matter how crappy their form is they always manage to beat us.
Let's hope Defoe is fit for Liverpool. I think Bale has earned a shot at LB - he's been very professional so far, has worked hard in the cups and last season's reserve games, and ITK and Harry's own words suggest that he's been training well. I do have doubts about his defensive abilities, but I think he's at least earned an opportunity to prove himself. Also we desperately need some width from the fullbacks if Modric and Kranjcar are on the flanks, and I believe Kranjcar could help him out defensively.
The modric kranjcar pairing actually made us play very narrow and It got very congested in the middle of the park. This did allow bale and Hutton plenty of room to bomb forward but against decent opposition we won't want them that far up the pitch so often or we'll get murdered on the break.
Yeah, that United thing in the next round was expected. Just turned out to be a different United :-)!
Anyway things looking good. Game against Liverpool is gonna be huge. Not just the result but the intent
Mrs Spooky - Keep On Bringing It - Is this your own work Spooky or have you been caught again?
Also plan to nick 'heroes and villains' from Musings too. And next week I intend to write in English (I've emailed the Queen) and also perhaps mention Tottenham Hotspur (if I can get written permission from the club).
Living on the edge*.
*If anyone owns copyright to this, please contact me.
new year greetings to all and sundry.
Pleased we didn't serve up our usual christmas turkey perfomenaces over the break. Still in 4th (just about penidng the city 'game in hand' or the newly copyrighted 'GIH' as it will be known on blogging sites to replace the old 'CAS' which I think hd something to do with straws but could never work out exactly what)) and next round of FA cup.
Just a quick mention for Harry and his dealings, Nico for £2.5 mil? that's a steal on currrent form. If the lad keeps injury free he could be the buy of the season. So that's a tick in the 'good buys' column from me that more than offsets a couple of his 'backburner deals' and I'm not talking about the paperwork in this instance.
I think Judge Jules owns the 'heros an villains' trademark adn possibly the copyright. But as he's a decent sort I doubt that he'll take you to court over it.
Hi Spooky,
'Living on the edge' - copyrighted maybe by Aerosmith :-)
It was good to see Kranjcar and Moddle together.
Totally agree with your point about Defoe's goal. I was thinking exactly the same thing this morning whilst watching a replay on the spurs website of Keane's beautifully skillful goal against Blackburn a few years ago (you know the one when he lifts it over one player, dinks round another and then flicks the ball over the keeper all in about 5 yards and 3 seconds) If Bergkamp/Henry/Ronaldo/Torres etc. etc. had done that everyone would still be jizzing their pants over it. As it stands i don't believe it's made it into any 'goal of the decade' lists outside of our own website.
Was at the posh game. completely annihilated them. One of the most dull games i've seen such was the ease in which we crushed them. Here's to more dull games in 2010