Yes. A mate of mine was there and very close to what happened. The guy spat in Cantona's face as well as the usual choice language. Yeah, Cantona shouldn't have reacted, but when you hear the whole story you can't help but get a sneaking feeling that the guy got what he asked for.
What impressed me about Chadli was that he was finally using his stature and strength to influence the game. For such a huge bloke he hadn't been too strong in games but he was using it against Chelsea. The variation in wing play of both him and Townsend was great to see. Even Dembele looked more positive than usual (mostly) and Paulinho looked passable when he came on...I still think one or both will leave this month though. Bentaleb deserves a serious mention for looking the most intelligent and composed midfielder on the pitch for most of the game. He seems to make the right decisions consistently and just seems such a reliable player to have in the engine room. I think we're going to have quite a player on our hands with him, and we're really going to miss him come ACON time.
Spurs did a job on us NYD. The fact is we underestimated you lot and overestimated our own team. The 2-1 in 2009/10 was a lot more one sided than the game on NYD but unlike then you took your chances. Chadli, Kane and Hazard were obviously the standout players and the inability to cope with them was why the scoreline was so high. It will be interesting to see if you push on from this or not.
Agree we understimated Spurs, we were arrogant. The players should not forget what a huge scalp we are to elite Champions League sides, let alone clubs the size of Spurs
Pretty pathetic WUM. You got your arses handed to you on a plate. Your defence is too slow and we won't be the only ones to take advantage, If Maureen doesn't strengthen it.
I actually thought what Cantona did was fine insofar as I would judge him as a human being, even if deserving of a long ban as a profesional. As a professional, he should have restrained himself. As an individual, someone was screaming abuse in his face, begging for a fight really, and I don't blame Cantona as a human being for giving him one. The biggest point may be that the win against Chelsea made everyone working for Spurs look a bit better at their jobs. I keep adding it up, and the Bale signings have never looked fantastic, or even very good, as a group. Right now, they look more like breaking even. I objected to the many who said they were a bust. It was under Sherwood that Eriksen started the run which made him the highest scoring midfielder in the PL in 2014. Paulinho actually created quite a number of goals, too, and was a regular starter. My point about Gylfi wasn't that he was bought with the Bale money, but that if he wasn't good enough to make the starting lineup, it was probably because we have quite a talented squad. Half our problems IMO resulted from relentless chopping and chaning of players, caused by having a glut at a similar level. If we would have let a number of players start every day, the way Gylfi now starts with Swansea, we might have been very pleasantly surprised. But I agree with you that at this point you have to say Soldado, Lamela, Paulinho (the three biggest signings) and Capoue have been disappointing, though Lamela has been fairly productive and looked so brilliant at times I'm still glad we have him.
I wish Soldado had hit his scoring drought before we got him, and that we'd paid much less for him, so we could appreciate how useful he is, instead of focussing on the failure to live up to his price tag.. He's the player who could come closest to replacing Eriksen in terms of technique and making good decisions, I think, so I'd rather he not leave as well. I'm not sure if I would sell anyone this window with the exception of players who are discontented, since we seem to be doing well with a big squad ATM. Maybe one or two, if we can get a decent price. You could hope the next ones on the trading block would get more time to play and raise their own value.
You can pretend all you want, denial is a symptomn of severe trauma and watching your massive club getting trounced by your biggest rivals must've caused some serious emotional damage. Not to mention the reality setting in that teams don't even have to spend billions to walk all over you for 90 minutes. **** club with money and no class
Lol! Huge scalp to elite CL teams! Mate - fluking and cheating your way to a CL trophy doesn't mean that any of the clubs you beat thought you were a big scalp! You think Barca thought you were a big scalp? You think that Bayern Munich didn't turn up on the night because they thought you were a huge scalp? Mate - your ****hole little club will return to what it was as soon as Abramovic gets bored, get shot or gets put in prison. Interesting thought, though - do you think most Barca or Bayern fans would have even heard of Chelsea before the huge Harding debt and Abramovic blood money? If you're old enough to remember I'm referring to the 80s and 90s when you came up and down from the first to second division and got average attendances of about 12-18,000 a game many years. Is that what big clubs look like? The ones who the elites of Europe think are a huge scalp? You got your money for now but no-one will ever look back and say "That Chelsea were a hell of a team, weren't they?". I'd want a hell of a lot more for all that money. All those people killed, all those Russians intimidated, ruined, ripped off and swindled and for what? A CB pairing of Gary Cahill and John Terry! Enjoy your glory!
Chavs Lucky again today,and their classless manager again blaming the ref,the fa should do something about it,he complains every match
This honour usually reserved for Audrey I believe but couldn't resist: "HurriKane" Goals flying in at the Lane on a Thursday night Jo Mourinho watching from the touch line He sees his defence lying in a pool of blood Cries out "My God he's killed them all" Here comes the story of the Harry Kane The man the Chavs came to blame For something that he had actually done There's no doubt one day he will be The champion of the world. Four defenders lying there does Jose see And another man named Chadli moving around mysteriously "I helped him do it" he says and he throws up his hands "I was only pulling the strings though, I hope you understand!" "Who should I blame?" Jose thinks and he stops "Maybe the referee's had too many pork chops" And so Jose tells the press And he blames anyone except his window-licking centre-backs in a mess On that cold North London night. TBC
Very good. Though I don't understand this bit: "The man the Chavs came to blame For something that he had actually done" Chavs blame someone for something that has actually happened? But then...how...why would Jose...? I don't get it.
