"While you lot were enjoying a great win tonight I have been at my 3 hr long college Maths course (after a days work) doing Algebra and Quadratic Equations etc. So I though I'd share one of my questions to see if any of you simpletons can solve it quicker than me... If team A have a 7 point plus a 3 place lead over team T but lose that points and place lead in just 3 matches of 90 mins each plus added on time exactly how **** are Arsenal" Not solvable (the **** discriminant for A is complex) .
I don’t know what on Groundhog Day is stranger: +10 over Arsenal in GD, or hoping Man City will take points off Leicester to get us nearer the top. The Pennsylvania pundit, incidentally, forecasts that Spring is around the corner, though I have no idea if that forecast is supposed to cross oceans.
Absolutely blitzed them in the first half and should've been 3 or 4 up by then with the game in the bag. The attacking movement was sheer class at times, everyone involved in nice, crisp passing and Norwich didn't know how to contain us. I called penalty straight away when I saw Alli get nudged in the back, didn't actually think it'd be given though as I've seen quite a bit of that this season (not just Spurs games) with no punishment. Second half we stepped off the gas a bit and allowed Norwich to gain a bit of momentum but Hugo wasn't tested once bar making a good punching clearance from a cross and them having a goal ruled out for offside (right call, too). Wimmer done OK on his first Prem start, gave away a couple of fouls but I think he may have been a bit eager to impress, as with all players, he'll improve with more game time and keeping a clean sheet will do his confidence a world of good, we all know he isn't and arguably won't be better than Jan but I think he's a very, very good understudy to have. On our third goal I do think Eriksen only got the ball after clipping through the back of the Norwich player and so we had a bit of lady luck there when the ref didn't blow but it was a great finish from Kane nonetheless. Our away form has been incredible and long may it continue. 3-0 away from home, 3rd place in the league and 5 points off top, I'll take that all day long
Watched the Alli penalty incident on MOTD. It was harsh on Norwich, but IMHO the reason it was given is because Alli had scored the first goal on the follow-up. Methinks the ref probably thought he was a cert for another goal if there had been no contact by Bassong. Their decision : you see them given, and the perceived inconsistency is what drives supporters mad.
It's the week after that that is intriguing. We play Man City. Woolwich play Leicester. We never want them to win-but we need Leicester to drop points. Likewise, if we don't win the prem ourselves (did I just say that?), then we want City and therefore ...... That is a crazy weekend of football .
I bet Sky won't get as apoplectic about that weekend as they do when their chosen clubs are playing each other - even though those matches are almost always a waste of space.
Similar to the description of General Custer’s shooting ability by one of his Crow scouts: "He couldn’t hit a tent from the inside." A French Canadian friend of mine says that Slapshot dubbed into filthy Quebecois French is about the funniest thing he has ever seen in his life and amounts to a kind of French Canadian national monument and encyclopedia of Quebecois scatology.
Only checked a few, but notice the theme? Good result, now do it again on the weekend. No relaxing, no time to get smug and congratulate yourselves, there are games to win.
The focus the squad shows is impressive. I think it’s what Gary Neville was so impressed with, and it’s certainly something Pochettino has had a big hand in building. And just to nitpick, Wimmer is pronounced VEEMer.
