I had a message from one of the decent posters on here a little while ago asking why I do not post on here anymore...... ...well, here is the answer. HIAG and people like him who know nothing about the game but consistently post their drivel and inane comments. Oh, HIAG - look in the dictionary to find the meaning of those words, or if that is too hard - Google them. Remember, 'Google is your friend' - that will be a novelty for you won't it - a friend!!! FWIW, Defoe is a decent striker, and will always score goals - but needs to be playing whole games and not just coming off the bench to rescue the game following impotent performances from 'so-called' better options.....
Just to add my best wishes for a Spurs great-I will surely miss him at the Lane. Jermaine Defoe , he's a Yiddo Jermaine Defoe has gone T'ronto Good Luck!!
Don't let anyone put you off CockneySpur - I enjoy HIAG but he isn't to everyone's taste - just ignore him. While I agree that Defoe scores a lot of goals, he has played for us under many different managers and none of them have felt he is the number one choice, nor has any bigger club been in for him. I think that's because his all round skills are just a bit below what is needed at the highest level. But he's pretty much always given his best for us and I genuinely wish him good luck in MLS - England could do worse than take him to the WC as an impact sub.
Huh? That list is of every player in the Prem who has scored more goals than Defoe, so far, this season. In fact, there are others, but I stopped at Sidwell. When stating facts becomes "wumming" we are all truly lost. I'm making a point to counteract Sherwoodie's eulogising, and to help us all keep things in their proper perspective. Please, let none of us shed any crocodile tears for Defoe, who has been, at best, average for us over many seasons and, at times, utterly dire.
Yeah, well I suggest that you take off your rose-tinted specs, make yourself a strong cup of coffee, and join the living, pal. Can you look up the words "rose," "tinted," "specs," and "coffee" in that dictionary of yours?
So becoming a 'legend' is now dependent on the number of goals scored in the last 6 months???? I haven't seen any comments on here that elevate Defoe above what he is and has been - a bloody good servant to this club and one of the best English goalscorers of the last decade. If you think that acknowledging that is exaggeration then that's a great shame. He may not be a Greaves or a Chivers, but his scoring record puts him up there in the top 10 and he deserves respect and acknowledgement for that surely, rather than this petty back-biting. Would have expected that from the likes of Peskie, not a fellow Spurs fan. And before you ask, I have a decent dictionary and thesaurus - and an early edition of Pictionary as well!!
I reacted to the suggestion, made by a BBC commentator, that Defoe was "a true Spurs legend." I mention this earlier in this very thread, so you should have seen it. In my post, I question that Defoe can properly described as a true Spurs legend, up against the like, for example, of Chivers and Greaves. The fact that I seem to have so many people on my back over my opinion (and that's all it is folks, so, please, get off my back) tells everyone that a lot of people on here agree with the journo and disagree vehemently with me.
No - I actually think that most people find your timing of apparently slagging off a decent servant of the club to be inappropriate - especially as this was not a comment made by any poster on this site!!
Sorry, my bad. No, you are all correct. Defoe is a fantastic player, a true legend of the club, better than any striker we've ever seen, or are likely to see. His lack of a consistently high enough goal-scoring record over recent seasons has absolutely not been the reason for us failing to reaslise the potential that the rest of the squad had. His move to Canada is a waste of talent, since he is clearly still one of the best strikers in the Prem, and that long list of players who have already scored more goals than him this season is a lie. I won't disagree with anyone any more, for fear of upsetting some of you poor delicate souls (even though this is supposed to be a debating site, and not a love-in). Please, can some of you grow a pair!
As superb as the two you mentioned were, you can't compare Defoe's record in the current footballing era to what they achieved in theirs. Football has changed and evolved over the years, apart from the world class strikers (Messi, Ronaldo, Zlatan, Falcao, van Persie, Suarez and a few more) you're not going to get players that can replicate the kind of goal scoring form we used to see decades back. Defoe has fantastic goal-scoring stats for the era he's played in. 9 years service and many records broken is more than worthy of a legend status.
Absolutely right, you can't. Chivers played against the likes of Bremner, Hunter, and Smith, hard men who would regularly make career-ending tackles, in an era when the rules permitted that to happen. Strikers today have far more protection under the rules.
Why would you or anyone else expect Chivers to say anything else? He's a thoroughly decent bloke and absolutely not one to blow his own trumpet. I still say that Chivers' stats are far more impressive, and more the stuff of legend.
Defoe's first words as a Toronto player? "I'm happy to be in the USA"! Here's his first press conference: [video=youtube;i4a3wBny6lg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4a3wBny6lg[/video]
