Spurs. Marching on together. Whoop.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 11:13AM Now that's more like it. Decent cup tie, plenty of chances created. Never really in doubt was it? There was no ominous 'here we go agains' even when Leeds pegged us back. You just felt that the tempo and effort from our lads was always going to cause the home side problems. It took two games, but Premier quality won through in the end.
Bentley continued his sparkling good form. Not keen on the hobo face scruff and although he does look ill there's no doubt that his form is currently sick (see what I did there? honestly, someone should pay me to blog). As long as he continues to keep his feet on the ground and not develop another vanity daze that always seems to eat away at any hope of prolonged consistency. Start to worry the moment he starts to highlight his hair. I'm liking the fact that he's continuing to take the chance he's been presented with. Good work fella. We all know he'll lose his place when Azza is back. But it's good to have competition. Not that it's competition in the strictest sense. Lennon is untouchable.
Defoe re-discovering his goal scoring touch was also a joy. Loved how he added spin on his first (he meant it) and his touch to score the second from an unplayable (from a defensive point of view) Bentley cross was equally impressive. His third was no doubt harsh on plucky Leeds and their fans but to be fair, it was tinged with 'back in your box' qualities that were much required, if anything to end the constant pro-giant killing requirements that ITV are utterly utterly obsessed with. Thought Crouch did a decent enough job in aiding JD. Missed a sitter (of sorts). It's not exactly the most exhilarating partnership with regards to subtle layers of inventiveness, but it's productive.
Apart from an exceptional 10 minute spell from Leeds at the end of the first half (having gone 1-0 up), it was comfortable. Special mention to that reaction though. They had a right old ding dong go at us and even though the goal was debatable - it was probably deserved for the sheer effort leading up to it. Only positive from conceding was that it left no room for further complacency come the second half.
On the subject of the goal, it's debatable depending on how you wish to interpret the phase of play that led to the equaliser. Leeds players all offside, but alas not when the ball reaches Becchio. He's now onside, even though there was arguable interference seconds earlier. Confused? I flipping hope so. I'm still trying to figure out how Defoe's goal at Anfield never stood.
Which we dominated in both chances and possession where the difference in quality was more than evident by the final whistle. Leeds didn't do enough. Our lot did everything right. Chuffed that the players gave the occasion the focus and determination it needed. It's the FA Cup, it should matter. Year might not end in 1. There's still a 1 in there. Bolton away next, more of the same please.
Positives: Bale (see what confidence can do for you?) and Bentley (2 assists and a couple of moments where I'm certain I witnessed him going past a player) were impressive, Defoe clinical. ITV duly gutted. Did love how when we took the lead, the second thing out of the commentators mouth was about whether Leeds could fight back. Dry them mate.
Goodbye Leeds. We might never meet again (hopefully).
Bread and butter next with Villa at the Lane, which is just as important for altogether different reasons. More so in the eyes of many. It's another cup game. In the league. Lose this and the feeling of deflation will no doubt sting. Win it, and there's an opportunity to use it as a springboard.
Onwards.
COYS.
Reader Comments (142)
Spooks. Get with the program.
Overall a convincing perfromance. Thought Jenas had one of his better games of late and i'm no fan. A couple of minor irritations. I think Bale let his man get the ball in the box far too easily and generally definsively he is still struggling to convince. Granted he has been on sparkling from going forward but i do worry about the Villa counter what with all their pace. Micheal Dawson had a couple of omoents where he needed to take a deep breath. He sahould have a chat with Ladleyt and woody about when to go for a challenge otherwise he will cost us a few more pionts this season ( not more than he earns us mind). Was good to See Bently put in a shift, don't think we should get over excited but hes a good option if lennon is out. Need to rember he was up against a right mid for most of the game not a natural left back. One last thin Jim Beglin was dreadful in the comentary box. So tiresome and partisan.
Defoe scored 3 goals chaps - why on earth are we even debating it. He played well and took some of his chances.
If he does the same against Villa then we will all be back in cloud heaven...............what if Bentley keeps improving with each game, he will be hard to drop for Lennon....................??????
I am sure you guys may have some thoughts on this? His final ball into the box has been fantastic
COYS
I always feared Spurs more than the scum, big Pete was a star for you lot what must Liverpool fans be thinking. Don't tar us all with the same brush I'm a Leeds fan to the core and hope you go on to win the cup. But please remember we are a third division team so don't get carried away with the result. You look forward to the Villa we look forward to The Pool and it's not Liverpool. Hope we get back but I don't think it will be soon Pappa Smurf will not put his hand in his pocket. Look at the full house last night and our whole teams pay probably won't be as mutch as big Pete's. Pappas happy with where we are Premier League crowds @ Premier League prices on League one wages.
Whats cloud heaven CEJ?
GC - cloud heaven is commonly known as 4th spot in the league
Defoe was far from clinical.. if he was i reckon he would have scored seven last night... five at least.. it's a worry... against a better team, having missed three chances early on like he did, we could have been punished...
nice finish for the third though..
It's not like Defoe was missing sitters.
Grim down south, I was there last night, spurs fans only perked up when they scored, our fans at the lane were louder than your home fans, n I'm afraid, again we were louder, football fans up north are of a different breed to you southerners, last night on the grand scheme of things you deserved to go through, but you didn't hammer us n u didn't show us up, Leeds last night were quality, our fans are world class, we put the majority to shame, I think your team deserves a better set of fans coz you have some quality players, naming but a few, krancjar Defoe n Lennon( Leeds born Leeds bred) I think alot
of ur deluded fans need to realise your not as good as arsenal, your not gonna finish in the top four, your not gonna win nothin, I'm sorry but your not, you seem to buy 512 players every summer, you can say haha were in league one, we've accepted our fate n were on the up, Leeds united we'll be back, end of story. U lot got pushed all the way by a "tiny league one team" that's got to sting, good luck for finishing 4th but I think villa or Liverpool will beat you to it. MOT
Jay LUFC to say spurs fans are rubbish is a load of crap- and anyway who cares, its about football at the end of the day i thought and you scored 1 shitty offside goal and we smacked 3 past you in your own backyard............in front of all your amazing fans!!
Spurs fans sell out every single game at home, and have done for ages - its the reason why we are looking to built a bigger stadium cos we have a shit load more fans that would happily turn out every week. We are certainly not glory hunters, we are a good loyal set of fans. Granted we did not sell out our allowance last night, but come on - Leeds away on a Wednesday night...........................i for one had a job to get to this morning and yesterday. I dont htink our team can ask for anything better than to play to a complete full house every single time they play at home. Good luck with your title push, its looking very shaky at the moment - i guess there still the playoffs.
COYS!!
Couldn't have put it better myself........
It wasn't yor turn out it's your volume, you were quiet, I gotta be honest, when you play arsenal, your immense, but last night, I'm sorry u were shit, first of all, your first one was shanked, 2nd alright give ya that, but 3rd came
from us pushin for an equaliser, ankergren was out of position n everyoe forward, you didn't deserve a 3rd, bt sadly it came, good luck to you guys, Leeds will go up this year, you'd be a fool to bet against them, your finishing in the first leg was poor, we weren't lucky to draw, u just couldn't finish, that's nothing to do with us, we had 4-5 chances n scored 2, and it was a penalty.
After ypu scored we were still louder than you lot, that's what I mean, that poor that.
Maybe its the acoustics in your shitty stadium that has no corners or balance. Also in reference to the atmosphere at the lane, had we have been playing someone important, like a rival, we might have made a bit more effort. I doubt you lot make much noise at home when your playing the likes of Hartlepool (sorry Jeff you little leg-end).
Aaarrr the banter........
Oh an you only filled your stadium because you were playing us, most of it is closed for league matches, great fans them......
................we cant concentrate when its too loud..............................guess thats why we let the late equaliser in against you cos your fans had our stadium rocking N rolling with all that famous thunderous northern noise.
Well done Leeds on being.....................errrrhhhh...........Loud?
PS: Dont moan about our goals when yours should not have even counted. End of.
Mazza............are you suggesting there were few glory hunters in there for leeds last night??????????? NEVER.
its closed because of our tight arse chairman, we pay £26 pound a ticket for most games, and our average attendance this year is around 25,000, now you tell me another club who would get that after what we`ve been through? i could guarantee you if you papa smurf opened the top tier every game we would sell 32,000 + a game, thats premiership attendances, you had 35,000 against us, we had 37 n half, i was paying ur team the respect it deserved before, but no fuck it, your fans are shocking, home and away, your team is a wanna be 4th position, you`ll never be anything and ull never win anything, at the end of the day, any other league one team u wudnt turn out 4000? correct me if im wrong..? the fact it was us is why u turned out, the day will come when we`ll be back n we`ll put u where u belong, in the bottom end of shitty southern teams u jellied eel eating cunts.
6 first team players did not figure in the game. Half a team. Just in case anyone forgot.
leeds are loud because you shout like excited teenagers over absolutely nothing. yeah well done, what wonderful people. padon us for not shitting our pants with excitemnt over a routine 3-1 over opposition 2 leagues below us. yeah you sang your hearts out, because it was one of your biggestr games for years. it was one of our smallest games all season, so yeah we're not going to be excited as you, are we? Your fans had to be louder because, lets be honest, thats all youve got. loud mouths. nowt else. and its all you will ahve for some time. We'll let you have that victory. imagine how pointless your existance would be if you didnt have the biggest mouths? What would you have then? fuck all, thats what, so be glad that you still have a good bellow game. You are a big club in the same way sheff weds are a big club ie you're not, you're actually peasants. Beckford is shit and he's your best player.
No offence to you but I've been to leeds many, many times and i can testify that it is full of wankers.
@ JAY LUFC ".............Lennon( Leeds born Leeds bred)..............."
Beckford "...................London born you muppet........."
"now you tell me another club who would get that after what we`ve been through?"
Nottingham Forest..... sit down, shut up and suck my big hairy, veiny balls! lol
At least their fans aren't Neanderthals! Much rather see them in the prem, oh wait, we probably will next season! Shame you can't say the same.
chrisman - haha !!!
flame away chrisman, flame away! ;-)
I don't give a fuck If beckford is London born, Aaron will and always will be Leeds, Leeds a shithole? Rich come
from a dirty used car sellin sOuthener, forest are a fantastic club, but as far as I see it, cunts like u wdnt turn up, Leeds are a fallen giant and a much bigger club than spurs, bigger history, time will tell league positions change... Watch this space cunts
"cunts like u wdnt turn up" - oh so I know you then? Are you that guy that sits in the underpass asking me for money every morning?
Three words:
toys, pram, out!
.......did I mention I'm really enjoying this.
L O V E I T !
I was meaning your fans not you, u cunts turned on your fans after 2-2, nice loyalty there, turnin on ur own team, Southern faggots, support a proper team like arsenal
How many fans do you get for the average league game?
Jay, cant say we turned on our fans after 2-2 to be honest, I was in the park lane actually right next to you lot..................by god what a bunch.............anyone seen Shrek? Picture that times 3000 and you are nearly there.
We did not boo our team, we were pissed of probably because we should have put the game against the minnows to bed and saved us all a long journey to the depths of shitty Yorkshire. Still, you are out now so problem resolved.
Crackin night out. We took a decent amount up for a mid-week game. Leeds giving it some noise in what was a Cup final for them. All this we are louder than you nonsense is just that. Everyone knows aways fans always make more noise and Spurs are known for having some of the best travelling fans i nthe country. Saying anything different is laughable. But I guess its tricky to keep up with the times if you're sat two leagues below.
Apologies for taking this thread back on topic but I just noticed the tag under the article "The Stupendous Adventures of Bale and Bentley" - classic!
do you think getting tickets for the leeds cup final last night will be more difficult than getting tickets for the cup final come May?
This graveyard on the brink of Beeston Hill's
the place I may well rest if there's a spot
under the rose roots and the daffodils
by which dad dignified the family plot.
If buried ashes saw then I'd survey
the places I learned Latin, and learned Greek,
and left, the ground where Leeds United play
but disappoint their fans week after week,
which makes them lose their sense of self-esteem
and taking a short cut home through these graves here
they reassert the glory of their team
by spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer.
This graveyard stands above a worked-out pit.
Subsidence makes the obelisks all list.
One leaning left's marked FUCK, one right's marked SHIT
sprayed by some peeved supporter who was pissed.
Far-sighted for his family's future dead,
but for his wife, this banker's still alone
on his long obelisk, and doomed to head
a blackened dynasty of unclaimed stone,
now graffitied with a crude four-letter word.
His children and grandchildren went away
and never came back home to be interred,
so left a lot of space for skins to spray.
The language of this graveyard ranges from
a bit of Latin for a former Mayor
or those who laid their lives down at the Somme,
the hymnal fragments and the gilded prayer,
how people 'fell asleep in the Good Lord',
brief chisellable bits from the good book
and rhymes whatever length they could afford,
to CUNT, PISS, SHIT and (mostly) FUCK!
Or, more expansively, there's LEEDS v.
the opponent of last week, this week, or next,
and a repertoire of blunt four-letter curses
on the team or race that makes the sprayer vexed.
away fans didnt make more noise last night, you are not known for having good travelling away support, you are known for havin rarely if ever finishing 4th in the prem, and then blaming food poisoning for not finishing there, and also blaming arsenal for poisoning you? childish, pathetic, and down right utter shite from a typical arrogant bullshitting southerner who thinks there shit smells sweeter, your fans are shit, stoke are known for having good fans, leeds are known for having one of the best sets of fans, were a bigger club, better fans, just had misguided financial trouble, at the end of the day, we`ll be back, you lot will stay a club with a lot of ambition but nothing to back it up, good luck for the future. and your right by the way, beckford is shite, he int our best player, our best player is robert snodgrass, who tortured bale for much of the games, get your head out the sand and realise. YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE!!
You will not make it to the final, need to buy a couple hundred more players in summer to win anything.
'Nuff said' Jay - where's your spray can?
Got further than you though.
And LOLZ at a Leeds fan talking about buying players to achieve success. Brilliant irony.
@ JAY LUFC ".............Lennon( Leeds born Leeds bred)..............."
SNODGRASS (What kind of effing name is this?) "...........Born in Glasgow, Snodgrass grew up in the Gallowgate area, the youngest of three boys and two girls. He, like his family, was a keen supporter of Celtic and had trials with them as a youngster, as well as their fierce rivals Rangers. His boyhood club offered him an apprenticeship, along with Clyde and Livingston, however he felt that he had little chance of breaking through at Parkhead and instead chose Livingston, who offered him travel. He has a daughter, Sienna, with his girlfriend Denise.........."
i never once said he was from leeds did i? did i? read back n check u thick fuck, i tell u what.....lets hope if you make it to europe (oneday), lets hope the run way is awfully snowy.....
..............speaking of thick fucks, what kind of crap chant is "Yorkshire", thats like us chanting "London". Kinda defeats the object really, especially when your singing it whilst playing another Yorkshire team? - Yes, you have done it I was watching.
temper temper JAY - dont let the yorkshire thug come out in you now, you have been so good up till now.
You were suggesting that one of our better players was leeds born and leeds bred, I am only informing you of your so called prefered players history and where they were born and bred. Thats all, no need to get all crazy on me. Jezzzzzzzzzzzz
talking of thick chants....WE ARE TOTTENHAM....SUPER TOTTENHAM......equivalent to fuckin yorkshire! lets be honest, you dont exactly need a degree to come up with a football song, lets be 100% honest, i love this banter, but that was a really shit arguement, you can do better than that! come on! ill argue on here all day by the way so i hope your all free lol
I can stick around for a while Jay, but i must warn you, I do have a job and a home and as such I will probably be departing in a couple of hours................................are you kidding me though, you, a leeds fan, up in Yorkshire with nothing to do apart from post messages on a spurs forum...........well i never.
How do you like our rendition of ".........O when the spurs....." thats a personal favourite!
Oh so you heard it? I thought we weren't loud enough ;-P
Loving the banter chaps.
Jay, I'm bringing up a firm to your gaff. About 20 of us. Can you rustle up around 200-300 Leeds? Can't promise not to keep the lot of them out of hospital but if you name tag yourself I'll let you off with a cheeky slap across the head.
Ooh.
My dads bigger than yours.
Jay - you got it spot on when you compared yourselves to Stoke. Sing your hearts out...anything apart from watching the shit you churn out on the pitch is preferrable. If I was a stoke/Leeds fan I would do the same...keep shouting crap as loud as you can, cos if you stop, you might have a second to think about how terminally shit your football team is. Cos last time I cheked, that's what it's basically about..is your team good, or is it shit? Our is good, yours isn't...and the funniest thing is you clearly are finding it very hard to accept. At least the likes of Hartlepool will accept that they are not very good.
As for delusions of grandeur,,,youre in fucking League 1 mate. And you have been for a few years now. Please god lets hope you bottle promotion again. You're team actually isn't that good, you just intimidate the fuck out of most teams. By the end of the season, League 1 will (again) have you sussed out for the bag of crap that you are and you'll stay there for at least another year. You got tanked 3-0 at home by Swindon ffs. And you lost to Carlisle!!! You're fucking shit!! All you have is Clive Tyldsley and every other dickhead pundit sucking you off. Come on Norwich and Charlton, for the sake of all that is decent, keep these putrid scom where they belong.
Btw I hate Leeds
wow i've never seen such spite on this forum. It must be exciting for a Leeds fan to get to banter withsome Prmier League fans again. Does it remind you of the good old days?
(i jest my friend. I jest)
Anyway, away from that for a moment I agree that ITV commentary was ridiculously biased. My two favourites were:
1. A through ball to defoe (i think) when he was actually onside (for once) by a good few yards and the line-o flagged him off. Beglin pipes up with "oooh he might have JUST been onside there, but the linesman has a difficult job." Didn't stop him allowing their fucking goal did it?
2. Beckford goes straight through Corluka's ankle when he's trying to clear the ball up the line. Co-commentator: (who was it again?) "Well he's just trying to close down the ball for his team. I was a full-back and I used to get a few of those in a game." YEAH WHEN YOU WERE PLAYING IN THE FUCKING 70S OR WHENEVER WHEN IT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO CLATTER SOMEONE AND GET A MILD TELLING OFF.
Someone's already commented on the Bentley one "oh he's made a meal out of that challenge where johnson has shoulderbarged him in the face completely ignoring the ball after bentley made him look like a dick."
Still, at least David Pleat wasn't anywhere to be seen. "JAYNAS?" Do me a favour!
Your all hilarious, I heard, your just shit, I'm
on here because anything with Leeds united in it's picked up on this site, if u wanna leave in a Yorkshire ambulance feel free, I'll be waitin....by the way I must say, I like tht "oh when the spurs" it's good
spooky................coals on the fire.........flames everywhere!!
Will u fuck off with ur flames.... I aren't gettin burnt, only just starting