People tend to put more emphasis on second half performances, in my experience, SNIAW. We were pretty dire today in that sense. We weren't great in the first half, but we took our chances and played some decent stuff at times. Overall I'm happy with the result, but not the performance.
I'm so pleased the Everton game was posponed at the start of the season,as i'm pretty sure we would have lost that too.Playing that fixture(whenever it is)in our current form will be alot easier.About the only good thing to have come out of the riots.I noticed a few games back PNP that we had played alot of away fixtures.The Everton home game being put back could really help us now.
Our away form is putting immense pressure on both Arsenal and Chelsea to keep finding the wins. Any more slip-ups from either of them and 4th is looking even stronger for us.
Absolutely fantastic result and good performance - we should have had a penalty to kill the game Sidwell elbowed Parker in the nose and Fulham tried to play on !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ****ING DISGRACEFUL We scored the one quality goal of the game, Lennon. I wanted Sandro to start and was delighted when he came on - but all credit to our wonderful team and management - we look to win games by playing FOOTBALL Us and City are the best two footballing teams in the country - City paid hundreds of millions to get there - we pay our own way - no prizes for guessing the team who deserves to be top of the table - yep its the mighty Spurs I can't tell you how much I love this team, but it's more than the money City and Chelsea have spent to buy their way to the top table
I never would have thought it would have ever crossed Levy's mind to promote the assistant to manager. Firstly, there are many experienced managers out there looking to manage a club like Spurs (Ancelloti, O'Niell etc...) and secondly, Levy doesn't have a track record at promoting inexperience to management. Anyway, we were incredibly lucky. But for some excellent keeping and Modric's left shoelace, we'd have either drawn or lost. Apart from a few instances where we passed the ball well (mainly in the 1st half), the team hardly clicked. Our movement was poor, our passing was atrocious and our final ball was near diabolical. I can remember at least 2 occasions when Walker had a great chance to cross the ball in and he dilly dallied with it and ended up losing possession. I'm not trying to single out Walker here, because he played reasonably well, those are just the two examples that stuck in my head. That being said, we did not play well and still beat Fulham (who are no easy team to beat at CC) 3-1. We have generally been playing some excellent football, which has also been exhilarating to watch at times. We go into the international break, not with the feeling of tasting defeat, but in buoyant mood that we've won 7 and drawn 1 of the last 8 games and in great form. But yeh, for most of the game, we were pants! I'm sure I was not the only Spurs person that predicted Fulham were going to score the 3rd goal. It just seemed ridiculously obvious. However, I did predict a 3-1 Spurs victory!
Jol had managed teams in Holland, though. Didn't Ferguson look at taking him on as his assistant, too?
He managed a team in Holland called Waalwijk. It's the town where my brother has lived for 30 odd years. He knows Jol personslly. I got to meet him at WHL when my brother had arranged some tickets for me, though him. I went to pick them up, and Martin Jol came down to see me and ask how my brother was. He obviously didn't have to do that - really nice guy. I was more than a little peed off at the way he was subsequently treated.
MOTD2 doing a piece of Luka Modric and how good he was today! Not sure what they were watching but that was his quietest game in months!
Apparently the Yids at the Cottage were singing: The babies not yours , the babies not yourssssss , poor jack wilshere , its Adebayors!!!!!!!!!
Hi Ensil thanks for kind words and well said in turn , we win by playing football as you rightly imply. We don't win as some teams do by boring the opposition to death/playing 'percentage football'/kicking lumps out of the oppo. In the last three games only set pieces have undone us, but we continue to play 'midget magicians' like Luka, VDV, Lennon and Parker. We could go for the 'Land of the Giants' route, but no, it's football first from us. Every win of ours under the current regime adds another happy sentence to our glorious tradition, and some like the Hearts, Pool, Arsenal and Rangers games are worth a whole para. We are Tottenham, Super Tottenham, super Tottenham from the Lane
Absolutely gutted at losing to you lot today, I though we should've won, penalty shouts aside. But fair play to you, it's games and results like that that'll see you into the top four. Good luck for the rest of the season (except, naturally, when we come to the Lane), would rather see you in 4th spot than Liverpool or Arsenal.
Well I don't agree with that, how many goals did Fulham score from open play - Zero - how many did we, the away team, score from open play - Three How does that equate with Fulham completely outplaying us? Answer it doesn't, because it didnt happen
Cheers, Bidley. You can feel a bit aggrieved about the result today, but as you rightly point out, when Man Utd and the like do it, then it's seen as a sign of a good side. I'm sure that most Spurs fans would like to see Fulham do well too, as Jol's still fondly thought of by most of us and you've got a number of ex-Spurs players in your side, too. Cheers for the well wishing comment and good luck for the rest of the season, barring the rematch at WHL, of course. Let's hope that you can play your way into another Europa League campaign, as you seem to actually appreciate it as the opportunity that it is.
Cheers Bidley , we got lucky today, but it was another cracking game to watch, and as you rightly imply, we deserve to finish top four.
