Kevin Friend has been appointed the man in the middle for Stoke City`s clash with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday 12th May. Friend has refereed in 22 Premier League matches this season, handing out 81 yellow cards and one red card. This will be the third time Friend has been the official in a Stoke match, with the other two matches being eventful for Stoke midfielder Dean Whitehead. Friend sent off Whitehead in Stoke`s opening day draw against Reading at the Madejski Stadium, his only league sending off this season, whilst the Leicester based referee was the man in the middle in Stoke`s 1-0 victory against W.B.A. at the Hawthorns, where Whitehead bagged the winner. Meanwhile, Friend has been the man in black for a Tottenham Hotspur fixture once this season. That coming in Spurs 2-1 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park.
Not a good night,last night,at least we managed a draw,My other Team Sutton lost to a last minute goal in the Surrey Senior cup final to godalming Town,at our own ground!.on an upbeat note,Sutton have signed ex-Spurs Jamie Slabber for next Season
We managed a draw against a team that could only win by an own goal against a weakened Man U. A 0-0 was very close and more apt a score line. I feel we spurned a good chance against a tiring Chelsea. Yes our goal was offside and we had a top player or two missing so what does all this say? Average in my opinion.
I thought despite injuries, we looked more balanced last night. - even if bale was quiet for 60 mins. The threat he possesses managed to keep Chelsea players tight on him which opened up space elsewhere. Dawson was absolutely dog **** last night. When your captain displays a nervy performance like that, it's going to have an affect on the team, hence why they all looked shakey. Walker took some risks yesterday, but I thought he did very well against hazard and his support play was excellent. He knew Lennon was struggling and he took over. Tireless running from him last night and he deserves some credit after all the **** he's had this season! Ade's motm was well deserved. I called that before the whistle. Stand out player for me. That wasn't an ideal line up, but perhaps we need to try it again against stoke? Lennon and bale out wide really helped our space centrally. With dembele back, it might make our performances better.
apparently Bale's heart celebration is to become a brand consisting of bags, hats, shoes jewellery etc. According to the daily star, documentation has been sent to the Intellectual property office to get the symbol trademarked.
apparently Bale's heart celebration is to become a brand consisting of bags, hats, shoes jewellery etc. According to the daily star, documentation has been sent to the Intellectual property office to get the symbol trademarked.
We'd obviously be better with a top striker but they cost £25m+ with wages to match. So to stay within budget we'd have had to make do without Vertonghen, Dembele and Dempsey. Not sure how that is better. What we really needed was Ade to play at his best all season. I don't think he has been properly fit. If he can get back to form we might already have a top striker
sad news. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/spurs/News/andrew-simpson-10052013.page The Club was saddened to hear of the passing of Olympic gold medallist and Spurs fan Andrew Simpson. Andrew was well known to us here at Spurs. He visited Spurs Lodge after his gold medal triumph in sailing's Star class in Beijing in 2008, happily posed for photographs with his medal and then took questions on his Olympic experience from our Academy players. Last summer, he teamed-up with Iain Percy again for the London Olympics, this time winning a silver medal. In September, he joined fellow Olympians and Spurs fans Richard Hounslow, Chloe Rogers and Helen Richardson at White Hart Lane, where all four received a rousing reception from fans at half-time. Our thoughts are with Andrew's family and friends at this sad time.
^^^^ Awful circumstances, drowned after his boat capsized... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/may/10/andrew-simpson-dies-yacht-capsizes
"For me, it has been a great honour and pleasure to compete against Sir Alex for three years," said Mancini. "It was a great honour to beat him in Old Trafford and I wish him good luck for his future." Hahaha, he's retiring Roberto, no need to be a dick any more
?...what is your point, the headline is 'It was an honour to face him' and paragraph 3 of the article quotes Mancini saying 'it was an honour to beat him at OT'.
That's my point. Quote was taken completely out of context, to allow the Cult of Personality to continue. The coverage of the retirement has been completely skewed. If they asked real people about the retirement the response would be different. I can't imagine anyone in South-East Manchester or Merseyside/Leeds/London shedding too many tears over Fergie retiring.
He is being annoyingly vague, but I think he means that they took the quote "it was an honour to face and beat him" and left the "beat him" out of the headline. Because of their deference to Fergie. Not sure I agree, but I think that's DLs point.
Its a fair shout SD, making any sense DriveL is more than commendable. The way I read the beeb article is that there was more than one quote, there's two quotes in exclamaition marks there, one with the word pleasure, one not. So I thought he'd said it was an honour to take SAF on in the first place, and another honour to beat him. All this proves really, is that the bloody English language is a nightmare for reading two ways causing mass confusion!
So confused. My point was why be a dick about beating him when he's retiring. Be a gracious winner (in that instance) and not mention it. Why mention it at all?
