This game is taking on a greater and greater importance for me, the more I think about it. In fact, it could almost be pivotal in our continued short and medium term development. Psychologically, we win well and the message will strike at the heart of the Goons: their worst fears will be materialising, their Top 4 aspirations will be almost dead despite the early stage of the season and they’ll be believing that we have the upper hand. They get the result, or even just boss the game and all bets are off and their season may kick on. Pound for pound, I would take us all day long, but this is the game when the team needs to PROVE that we have the upper hand and that we can go to one of the potential challengers and come away with the 3 points. We have done it often enough in recent seasons at the Lane and the result against Liverpool (with some assistance from their defence) and Madrid showed we can do it at Wembley. We now need to do it at the Etihad, Stamford Bridge and the Emirates. COYS!!!
As I said on their board, the Goons need to win for a multitude of reasons while Spurs need to win because we cannot rely on anyone else reducing our gap to Citeh before their Dec 10/16 showdowns. But their need is far greater than ours. If Pochettino has any nous he will set up to punish any NLD blood-rushes the Goons have on pitch.
Might give us an idea who's likely to play. Also worth watching for another "Rose hands on head after Lamela nutmeg" moment.
You cannot buy that with money. It has to be earned by the manager/coaches/players by on-pitch trust + performance.
The Youtube channel's really on it for this one: One of my favourite bit's of commentary: "Rafael van der Vaart... 2-2! It's quite a game! Isn't it always?" Sums up the NLD quite well, I think.
What I wouldn’t give for a similar performance and outcome tomorrow! That is one of the all-time great days in my Spurs supporting career as I have documented previously and all the team were great even Hutton, but that day for me was epitomised by William Gallas. Brilliant throughout but finished the last 15-20 mins on one leg! True leadership! And Goons say making him their captain was one of Wengers greatest mistakes. Obviously had more to do with the team he was skippering And seeing Fibreglass sulking off at the end warms the cockles of my heart!
In a world where generals become foreign agents and reality show judges become president, I'm thankful for any cobbler sticking to his last. Wenger is sharing an opinion in a field in which he is a world-renowned specialist.
It definitely is and hopefully will be tomorrow - but that doesn’t take anything away from what was a fantastic day out!
Far be it from me to act like a wet blanket but you lot really need to look at the relative strength and weaknesses of the whole squads of both teams and both managers. You then need to look at the history of our away results against not only Arsenal but all our rivals and most importantly, when all is said and done you lot really need to STFU WITH THE OPTIMISM
I kind'a thought it was a spontaneous action.......I mean, why would anyone train a monkey to do that?..........Second thoughts, I don't want to know. My mind is corrupted enough already.
Sorry, you're way ahead of me and possibly in need of therapy.... My comment on 'training' was purely in the physical/athletic sense
