sandro played because of his versatility. he can aid scott parker, as well as getting forward and causing a nuisance in midfield; which we had to do, in order to deal with the midfield brick wall that Sunderland park in every game. - a way of mitigating the negativity. YOUR negativity. perhaps if you had pre warned the three young lads that Gareth Bale was likely to be clattered the entire game, restricting him from playing football, their hopes wouldn't have been so high. with the exception of Bardsley who was fantastic against him yesterday, the rest of your team might got away with all sorts, all over the pitch. your "more corners" were a result of excellent deliveries from Larsson (as usual), by where a defensive header resulted in another corner. - Don't flatter yourself that the corners came from constant individual threats at goal. not even going to comment on the final sentence, i saw your signature underneath. says it all really.
You seem to think that Foy was doing us favours you just need to see some of the decisions again he made. Towards the end of the game Bale made a run was tackled by Gardner and we were on a fast break and Foy blew up, as far as I could tell Bale did not have a head injury and as he was near our pen area was not involved with play so why stop play? Swansea style of football which is about possession, perhaps 1/3 rd of a good game plan, it is in some ways no bad thing i.e. if you have the ball the oppo cannot score. However if you want to win you need to have the other 2/3rds, 1/3rd of passing/dribbling forward into the opponents pen area and the last 1/3 rd a finisher. Now Spuds with Bale and Adebayor(?) and even vermain defoe do have the finishing potential. But if you roll the ball out from the keeper to your backs and they pass it around for ever, any runs/space by Bale and Adebayor will be covered. Also if you are so worried about little old Sunderland catching you on the break and you play two DMs in front of the back four and double up on McClean, passing forward you will be outnumbered and your strikers will have little opportunity to shoot, Until Flash brought Lennon on the spuds were not really a strike threat at all. Swansea perhaps have the excuse to play the way they do as they (and us as Bendtner is worse than useless, but he is all we have) do not have potent strikers...You do but they did not get a sniff cos of Harry's caution. Also until we get much better players defending well and hitting on the break is fine by me, its called counter punching all the best boxers/fighters employ it and it is what Manure have done for years, they just do it better cos' they have higher quality players than us.
Sunderland are a horrible, fouling, nasty team managed by the one of the kings of anti-football, O'Neill. What's to like? Stoke without the long throws, you even play in the same colours. No Spurs crowd would accept our team playing like that, especially at home. You'd really have to be brainwashed big-time if you think that's good football that Sunderland served up yesterday.
Was this at me? Foy's a pretty **** ref and I thought he was poor again yesterday but I don't think the only decisions he got wrong went against us or that he effected the outcome of the game. Well put it this way, his performance had far less effect than our inability to create any real pressure or test the keeper. When Bale was taken out he was fouled already by Colback and then Gardner came in two footed which prevented Bale from sticking out a foot to nick the ball as if he did he'd have really been on the end of a bad one. Ekotto had just intercepted the ball when Foy blew by the way so you don't really have a point there. Swansea do play good football and against another team who play in the same spirit it's very entertaining. I agree that when we passed it around at the back it was frustrating but it was an attempt to draw your players out which never happened because you were happy with the point from the very start. It was a frustrating game for Spurs fans all-round because Sunderland didn't play well, we didn't play well, our tactics didn't work and 3 points would've been a big result for us yesterday. We might moan about your tactics but as PNP said, we don't blame you for doing it. Read back through the thread we criticised our players, 'Arry for not making changes quick enough as well as the ref and your team.
About 5 of your players escaped bookings in the first half and the Bale tackle had more than a hint of two-footedness about it. No no Foy was great, what am I thinking. You were at home and couldn't even get our keeper to make 1 decent save... try harder next time please.
Argh diddums did the nasty Northern Team upset the southern softies and not roll over for you, so lets call them names to cover up for inadequacies of your manager and team.
Sunderland set out like relegation candidates yesterday. The fact that Spurs are (deservedly) getting criticism for not penetrating them more when they're the away side says something, doesn't it? Most people, including lots of Sunderland fans it seems, are being critical that we did not beat Sunderland in their own backyard. And I would agree with that.
Would the Spurs fans like some cheese to go with their whine? Not good enough to break us down, end of story, jog on.
We were relegation fodder until MoN took over, if you had said before Christmas that by Easter we would be safe and clear you could have obtained very good odds and made a decent wager.
anyone who tries to make out they are having a debate but refer to us as Spuds..is obviously a bellend who has a bit of coksuking running through him...theres many people who like to debate and usually you can tell who they are..but a good indicator is usually name calling..just like i always call the other lot goons and chavs because really i couldnt care about them and i like to wind them up...but i wont hide it...so you,the fan of that crappy team in the North East..needs to stop crying and talk sense or nothing. p.s your team should be ashamed parking the bus at home,on form aswell...but ill put it dwn to the fact that they know we are way better than them
Rather than listen to the Mackem drivel posted here, the far more conclusive evidence is MON's reaction in interview after the game, briefly but sheepishly looking downwards when asked why the 10 man behind the ball tactic from the off. If you weren't negative, why did he bluster his way through the next few minutes 'defending' (excuse the pun!) his miserable approach to the game? Oddly some Spurs fans have put his name up to succeed Harry...I hope they're joking.
Well the Southern softies will finish above the northern nasties yet again this season. The southern softies have won six major trophies since your two bob club last won a trophy. We've been ever-present in the Prem, and you?
It's far from the end of the story. The story is about your horrible anti-football making a decent game impossible.
I was saying at the time his style of football is too pragmatic for the players we have. He didn't have any creative players at Leicester so it worked for several seasons, he had a strained relationship with Aiden McGeady at Celtic as he didn't fit in with the approach, whilst at Villa he had them overly reliant on set pieces despite having the likes of Young and Milner offering the potential to play the ball around. I'm not going to go as far as some people and compare him to Allardyce as that is patently unfair on several levels, but he isn't the managerial solution for us. On the other hand, he might do well at Chelsea or Liverpool, given their preference of slogging and clogging over creativity.
Well said NSS. O'Neill is one of the 'masters' of anti-football, I would never want him anywhere near our great club.
Harsh. I wouldn't be dancing in the streets if Sunderland went down, or for that matter any of the other clubs in the Premier League this season. With the exception of Liverpool...
