"He [Hart] said he's seen me take a couple and seen me go down the middle as well so it was a bit of mind games but I knew where I was going to put it and was thankful to see it go in." - Harry Kane http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...id-before-he-stuck-penalty-down-a3180141.html I've taken a big dislike to the fella.
I didn't mind him saying something to the penalty taker, as that's quite normal. I thought that going for a wander behind the goal was taking the piss, though. Should've gone straight in the book.
The thing with Joe Hart trying to intimidate the opposition is...he's so **** at it! I recall him pulling faces at Italian players in the Euro's in 2012. They all scored and he didn't get near a single one. He looked as though he was playing peek-a-boo with young kids. If I was him, I'd keep it shut and concentrate on the ball.
Probably watched Bruce Grobbelaar as a kid and thought that he could replicate it. I find that a keeper standing big and making a positive choice is far more off-putting. Trying to distract a player generally seems to give him something to focus on, rather than the precarious situation that he's in. Why take someone's mind off potentially becoming a complete ****-up?
Why didn't Hart get a yellow for leaving the pitch without permission when he walked round the back of the goal?
I'd been quite fond of Hart up until that night. If you're going to try that crap it had better work. If it doesn't,you're a prick. If the opposition take the piss like Italy did, you're a sad little prick who's not very good. .
It's the look on Joe Hart's face in the replays that makes it that little bit more satisfying. He looks like a man who knows he's going to get torn a new one the following morning.
Tottenham Hotspur ✔@SpursOfficial Mauricio: "In the last action at City, Hugo got a knock on his shoulder & is out tomorrow & maybe out for Sunday." The inference is that if he is possibly out for Sunday, he's possibly in as well. So he should return in a week, or, at most, in a week and a half. But considering injury news from the club has proved to be about as reliable as (pick your simile for unreliability, and keep in mind Pritchard seems to have been healthy long after he was classed as injured), it's anybody's guess. I think the chances are good this news is more or less accurate, though. That desperate effort to claw away the ball at the end of the game is the kind of thing you strain your shoulder doing. And that, to take my sheer guesswork further, is the kind of minor strain that heals itself in a week or two. Even if it's more serious, like a rotator cuff injury, if I were Lloris I'd rest and rehab as well as possible for 1-2 weeks, and play anyway starting the weekend after this one. A rotator cuff injury would probably only affect his ability to throw overhand, which he might prefer not to do, or to do painfully, rather than sit.
The photo on the OS where this news is announced, reminds me what a really outstanding piece of goalkeeping that was from Lloris to make that save.
Great save and a great picture http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/first-team/match/team-news/fiorentina-v-spurs-team-news-170216/
Tottenham Hotspur ✔@SpursOfficial Mauricio: "Josh Onomah and Cameron Carter-Vickers are with us in the squad." #COYS pic.twitter.com/HaE3rWccG1 Interesting. I thought Pochettino would continue his policy of lightish rotation. There's an argument to be made for heavy rotation, considering how finely poised the PL race is. Flying in players fairly far down the depth chart could be an indication of the latter.
