Sick and tired

Not me. Just an outbreak of sickness at the
training ground, seems that Charlie and Wilson
were both reported to be down, which suggests
it was nothing to do with the chicken nuggets and
chips that the English lads probably had.
Everton at home tomorrow, should be quite a
good game, they were very poor when we beat
them in the Carling Cup, though they are on a bit
of a roll. However they lost in Europe on Thursday
so let's hope they have returned to patchy.
It's going to be interesting to see if H keeps faith
with Bale, as Benny is fit, however he may be saved
this dilemma if Charlie is still shipping it at either end!
Spurs win 2-1

Arry, Arry, give us a Pav...

Something happened last night. We were not
great, still too much possession given away
which would have been punished by better
teams, but we played some football.
At last the message seems to have grudgingly
got through. The fans have taken to Pav, simply
because he is one of us. It's not Crouch's fault
that he's several metres tall, and the guy does
try, but when you watch a footballer and have
a desire to shout "Freak!" then something is
clearly not right.
Crouch is an impact player, someone to wheel
on for the last 15 minutes, a novelty act to scare
the peasants!
Now all we need to do is try and convince Bassong
that he can play football, and things will start to
look even better...

Bolton at Home...

Sometimes it's all too easy, and sometimes there is
a reason for it not being easy.
So here we are again thanks to Tommy, Tommy,
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Huddlecan'takeapenalty!
I think that the replay in the EON sponsored FA
Cup will be a tough one to call. We should have
plenty, but we are Tottenham, super Tottenham.
Put some money on it going all the way to extra
time and penalties.
Me, I'm going to watch it all from the comfort of
The Legends Suite with my good old friend Peter
Baker. I think I'll order a blanket and some cocoa!!

Chosen Few...

"They love him. He has got ability and WHEN
he WANTS to play and WANTS to work he's
great."
I was under some sort of impression
that the role of a manager was to manage
players, not wait for them to decide that they
want to play. Yet again this has shown that
man management is not the strongest of H's
personality traits...
The look on his face when Pav's second goal went
in was as if the taxman and the vatman had
turned up at his front door.
That said it was nice to see him making some
effective substitutions, and the difference that
a quality player like Modric made. He'll be off...
I think that with Defoe and Crouch, although
they can be effective, they can also be quite
predictable...

Il l'a vu alors...He saw it then!

I know that it is very juvenile of me,
but it's so good to watch AW getting
all righteous about something that
Henry did a few years back...Nice to
see Sol involved too.
Things seem quiet down at the Lane
probably all busy practising penalties.
Yeah right.

Paying the penalty...

There is a great book by Andrew Anthony called
'On Penalties'. In it he looks at every aspect of
the art of penalties and highlights 3 national
teams who seem crap at taking them. England,
Italy and Holland. What it all seems to boil down
to is a positive mental attitude, and some proper
practice. I would imagine that Huddlestone.T.
was a name that Fabio might have scrubbed off
of his 'possibles' list. Bolton should have had us
beaten by half time, and we showed some good
spirit to get back in touch, and probably did enough
to win the thing.
In the end Daniel Levy was probably the most
satisfied with the result...If we play like we did in
the second half we'll beat them in the replay, let's
hope it doesn't go to penalties!

Bolton away...

So the magic of the cup, Peter Kay and all
that. Put big money on Jussi Jaaskelainen
'avin a 'triffic game. There is apparently
no truth in the rumour that Ladbrokes in
Sandbanks paid out on Wolves to beat Spurs
twice in a season...Could be the game that
we need to get the season going, or could
be the end of season. It's up to Little and
Large to start finding the back of the net
instead of hitting the ball straight at the
keeper. Let's hope for a massacre!! Valentines,
geddit?

Fit and Proper?

After watching the highlights on MOTD
last night, and drawing inspiration from
our players, I was not going to bother
blogging today! I suspect that Hansen
has been reading my blog..."Spurs will
always let you down..", poor old Gary
has even started to believe him...My
thoughts are that either H was thinking
about going before the Beak, or he agrees
with me and has looked at the FA Cup to
get the freedom of Haringey...Did he really
think that the mob he sent out in the first
half were going to win? Anyhow don't get
me started!!! Nice to see Jenas back though!

3rd?

As we slip down to 6th, H is quoted as saying
that we can reach 3rd, or some such nonsense.
Let's hope that the show gets on the road tonight
as in my opinion we have been going nowhere
standing still in the last month.
There are lots of royal "We" in his statement, where
he talks about 10 possible points that "we" have
dropped.I guess that's his job. COYS...

The hoof, the whole hoof, and nothing but...

As funny as it might have been, I'm with Brad
Friedel on this one. Okay we lumped it up field
slightly less, but we had Crouch they had Carew.
We were at home, they were away.
A couple of things: Firstly, I think that when we
beat Wigan 9-1 we upset the footballing gods,
as ever since there has been a series of other
wordly goalkeeping displays against us.
Secondly: We dream abaat it, we fantasise abaat
it, we can't wait for it...the thought of H making
some sort of substitution that changes a game.
Call me a romantic but the game was crying out
for 15 minutes of Eidur (down!) at the Lane.
Ah, the beauty of hindsight.

Whatever...

My favourite Frenchman has been talking to
Le Media again."If you win the League Cup
you cannot say you win trophies for me..."
He goes on and on (and on) about how reaching
the knockout phase of the CL is the most
important thing. Having been at The Emirates
to see them get stuffed by ManYoo, I'm not
sure that the 'bums on seats' would agree.
Vivant dans deni. At the moment I would trade
4th (or 3rd) place for a lovely sunny win at
Wemberlee in May!!! Crazy I know, but most of
my best Spurs memories are based around
winning cups.
Sorry Arsene I think you are missing the point
in being a supporter. It's about winning things,
great occasions and not profit and loss.

Testing times...

Great result at Leeds, although we seemed
to make hard work of it. The joys of being
a Spurs fan!
Tough test against Villa on Saturday, and a
real strange one to call. I've got a feeling that
we will win, maybe the odd goal in 3.
H is up before the court next week, so will be
packing his overnight bag and polishing his
toothbrush just in case.

Magic of the Cup

Glad to see the weather is a bit warmer as
our brave lads make their way Up T'North
to face the dirty Leeds. Good thing that H
managed to buy all those players who were
cup-tied.
Took part in The Spurs Show last night which
was good fun, you can catch it on:
http://www.facebook.com/l/8f36f;bit.ly/transfers
I think that we should win tonight, but that it
might be a close run thing, which will depend
on how H manages to gee the lads up...Let's
hope it does not go to penalties!!!

Loans and moans

So it seems that the 'Loan Window'
was a bit of a non event, mildly
spiced up by Keano fulfilling yet
another boyhood dream. Most of my
boyhood dreams revolved around Farah
Fawcett and the girl off of the flake ad,
but that's another story.
I was slightly miffed to hear H say that
"Robbie Keane is too good a player not to
be starting.It will be difficult to guarantee
him a starting place..."as we all thought
there was indeed some sort of guarantee
from H to Keano.
H also seems to reckon that we can do without
any cover at right back, so we shall see.
I'm off to record The Spurs Show this
evening, and will hopefully be able to
enlighten the faithful, with my grumpy
insight into all things Rob White...

I guess that's why they call it the Blues...

I was away this weekend so only saw the
highlights. From what I saw, read and heard
it was probably a fair result, although the
manner of another last minute goal was yet
more fuel for my 'fragile Spurs' mentality
argument.
Things were put into perspective yesterday
afternoon when I was offered a ticket to go
and watch Le Scum v Man Utd.It was lovely to
sit surrounded by moaning, unhappy fans
(just like being at WHL!) No keeper, no forwards,
and no bite in midfield, maybe H could flog
them Jenas, Keano, and Cudicini (slightly damaged!).
If we had beaten Stoke, Wolves or Hull and not
let in last minute goals at Everton (or missed
a penalty!), and Brum then we would be in 3rd
place...Then again if my aunt had balls she would
be my uncle!