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I felt that when they scored to go ahead Spurlock. I thought that if we get one we'd get two or two halves. Had we gone ahead first then we'd have scored more. Going behind at home and waiting an hour to score our goal from a tap in isn't good imo.
 
It's 5 games into the season. No team has shown outstanding form, but you wouldn't expect them to yet. Chelsea & Utd's results have been far better than their performances, City have looked wobbly in defence, Arsenal looked toothless in the first two games, Liverpool are pants...Spurs have picked up two wins against two very modest teams, which will boost confidence and have pushed you into the top half of the table. It's far too early to jump to any conclusions.

Agree with you apart from that bit.

For me, Arsenal have been bay far the most impressive of the big 4. On another day they'd have battered Sunderland, as for Stoke they are always tricky at the Britannia.

Chelsea are still gelling as are United hence the performances, but at this stage it's only results that count. United, Chelsea and Arsenal are beginning to find their feet whilst City are grinding out results but looking vulnerable. Outside that cartel you'd have to say Everton have looked the most impressive thus far but it's early days.
 
I've gone for 2-1 United, Gerrard FS. 140/1.

Just need Suarez to pull off a dive, Gerrard to convert the pen then the ball is rolling.

I'm less sure about this game than any other, although I think 2 losses this early on is potentially damaging for United. They really were fortunate to win at St Mary's and were outplayed at Goodison. I'm sure there are at least 5 more losses left in them.

well done district, how much did you win
 
Arsenal's first two games were 0-0 draws. How was that not toothless?

Their general play was good and they never looked like conceding, created enough good chances in both games.

The time to worry is when you aren't creating anything, as Chelsea weren't last season under AVB. I think so far we've seen a good Arsenal side that will most certainly not be as far off the title as they were last season.
 
I'm very happy with 5 out of 9 points from Etihad, Anfield, Britannia. On the day, I was disappointed with the draw at Stoke, but them and City away have consistently been one of the toughest 3-4 games in the season for us.
 
I'm very happy with 5 out of 9 points from Etihad, Anfield, Britannia. On the day, I was disappointed with the draw at Stoke, but them and City away have consistently been one of the toughest 3-4 games in the season for us.

Only 1 goal conceded as well from those, not many (if any) will match that. If Cazorla, Wilshere, Diaby and Arteta all stay fit (or at least 3 of them) you lot won't finish any lower than 4th. I actually think on a technical level you are a better team than United but lack the power and more importantly winning mentality.

Today was as well as I've seen Arsenal play against a top drawer side in about 3/4 years.
 
When ManU, ManC, Chelski etc don't deserve to win they "grind out" a win or are described as "great" because great teams win when they don't deserve to. Sound familiar? Thing is, if you look at the whole season these "top teams" have rather a lot of grind out wins, a lot of which come from dodgy penalties etc. Spurs rarely win games they don't deserve to and when this happens, like today, it is generally said that we didn't deserve the win. For some reason it's rarely said that these "top teams" didn't deserve their win. It's shoddy, lazy, dishonest reporting and built on cliche. And no, to be honest we didn't deserve it.

Now who's going to start the poll on what type of dodgy decision will go against us at ManU next week - penalty, sending off, offside, ruled out even though it crossed the line, a Nani special?
 
When ManU, ManC, Chelski etc don't deserve to win they "grind out" a win or are described as "great" because great teams win when they don't deserve to. Sound familiar? Thing is, if you look at the whole season these "top teams" have rather a lot of grind out wins, a lot of which come from dodgy penalties etc. Spurs rarely win games they don't deserve to and when this happens, like today, it is generally said that we didn't deserve the win. For some reason it's rarely said that these "top teams" didn't deserve their win. It's shoddy, lazy, dishonest reporting and built on cliche.

Now who's going to start the poll on what type of dodgy decision will go against us at ManU next week - penalty, sending off, offside, ruled out even though it crossed the line, a Nani special?

That's only true for United. Chelsea have been slated every week on MOTD despite being top and having 3 clean sheets from 4.

I haven't seen the 90 minutes of your game to comment but looking at the stats it would appear you were worthy winners.

The media have given Spurs fair praise where it's due (perhaps at times too much), take the 4-3 game with Inter for instance where many were quick to heap praise on the Spurs side namely Bale despite losing and shipping 4 goals.

The reporting is lazy though and you have to be extremely careful, they'll simply skew the highlights to benefit their analysis
 
Well,we have one defeat in 6 and if we can escape with a point next week I'll be happy with our start,even though it was on a fecking razor's edge today.
 
I haven't seen the 90 minutes of your game to comment but looking at the stats it would appear you were worthy winners.

We weren't. We were the better side after we went ahead, but QPR were far better in the first half and it was even for the first 15 minutes in the second.

The media have given Spurs fair praise where it's due (perhaps at times too much), take the 4-3 game with Inter for instance where many were quick to heap praise on the Spurs side namely Bale despite losing and shipping 4 goals.

We had 10 men for most of that game, as Gomes got sent off after 7 minutes.
The comeback was pretty amazing considering that and the ref couldn't blow up quickly enough for full time once it was 4-3, only playing 2 minutes despite Bale scoring in injury time.

You conceded 3 goals in each of your games v Utd last season. In years gone by, it's often been 3, 4 or 5. Teams don't routinely ship goals on this scale because they don't get the rub of the green but because they make mistakes.

What a load of bollocks.
 
Come off it, PNP. Spurs were outplayed in your 3-0 defeat at OT last year and made a number of defensive errors in the 3-1 defeat at WHL- Walker especially. And the idea that the questionable penalty in the 5-2 defeat three years ago was somehow responsible for the Spurs defence parting like the Red Sea four more times is laughable. Whilst there have been controversial decisions in this fixture, how many have been decisive? You would have to go back to the Mendes incident in 2005 If you look at the results over the years, Spurs have usually got a well deserved thrashing. It may be closer next week but I wouldn't bank on it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9137317.stm

Second goal killed off the game, when it should not have been given.
 
Sorry Lidls, but that's just more ****e.
Continuously benefiting from dubious decisions in the same fixture and then claiming that it's not decisive is just utterly stupid.
Note that a number of the most outrageous ones have been given by the same bloody refs, too.
 
I'm not the biggest Spurs or United fan but to suggest decisions haven't been decisive is ridiculous.

Had the Carrick penalty not been given in the 5-2, the title probably goes to Anfield. It's absolutely decisive as was the Mendes goal (the most shocking decision I've ever seen). If Spurs win there as they would have done, the OT hoodoo comes to an end.

Last Season Spurs had a perfectly good goal disallowed to make it 1-0, which would have changed the game.

Any wrong decision is decisive. Just as ours v Spurs were and them v us
 
Come off it, PNP. Spurs were outplayed in your 3-0 defeat at OT last year and made a number of defensive errors in the 3-1 defeat at WHL- Walker especially. And the idea that the questionable penalty in the 5-2 defeat three years ago was somehow responsible for the Spurs defence parting like the Red Sea four more times is laughable. Whilst there have been controversial decisions in this fixture, how many have been decisive? You would have to go back to the Mendes incident in 2005 If you look at the results over the years, Spurs have usually got a well deserved thrashing. It may be closer next week but I wouldn't bank on it.

I have to disagree with that. We were easily your equals until the first goal. After that, yes we disintegrated defensively. From memory, we had no adequate cover in front of our defence that day. 3-0 flattered Utd in context of the entire game.