Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Bournemouth

[Spur of the Moment]

This was entertaining

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Half time advert for a garden centre???
Reminds me, I need some new trellis for my tomatoes

 

[D.G.C.]

The modifications to my post hide the point I'm making CK.

 

[O.Spurcat]

This was entertaining

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I love Paul Coyte, but his half time interviews have become a tad bland recently, so this was a refreshing change. I enjoyed watching this yesterday and after that dreadful first half, it seemed well received by the crowd.

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

City's was far more convincing though wasn't it and their win I'm sure fills their fans with a lot more confidence than our 1-0 win fills us.

On the other hand, when City reach halftime and the score is 0-0, their fans have a collective nervous breakdown because they can't comprehend that they don't have a God-given right to trounce every single team they face - just like Arsenal fans had a decade ago, in fact.

 

[SpursDisciple]

I already did. You lost the referendum (again) .

Don't know about that, but definitely no vacancies or need for elections. You only need to visit any other board to know we have the best around.

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

I love Paul Coyte, but his half time interviews have become a tad bland recently, so this was a refreshing change. I enjoyed watching this yesterday and after that dreadful first half, it seemed well received by the crowd.

It was nice to see something different and they adjusted their routine quite well, I thought.
Shame that the area of the ground that they performed for was virtually empty!

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

IIRC during the Burnley game Hoddle (the co-commentator at the time) mentioned that he had been chatting to Toby who had bemoaned the design of the pitch to him. It seems the two were discussing long-range passing, and Toby said that WHL's 'claustrophobic' pitch made them much easier, as you glanced up, saw the ad boards, and immediately knew that if you aimed a meter before them, the ball was in play and the attacker on their way. The trouble with Wembley (and it's a similar issue at the HMRC Arena) is that there are 5 yards of grass beyond the end of the pitch, making it much harder to find your range if you are trying to play an adventurous ball to transition from defense into attack. Hoddle was then asked by the commentator if he would've found it hard picking out a pass at Wembley, to which he - incredibly - said 'yes, I think my instinct would be to play the shorter, safer pass rather than risk booting the ball out of play every time'. To hear that from a player of Hoddle's ability - he could probably hit a sixpence from 100 yards away - only underlines the extent of the problem.

Common sense dictates that, just as the team has grown used to the dimensions of the soulless bowl surrounding the pitch, it'll be time to head to our new home and start the process all over again.

 

[BluefromBridgend]

Hi guys. Was at Wembley last Saturday. Enjoyed the day out at my first Spurs "home" game for several years. I have to endorse the comments about lack of atmosphere. Difficult to transfer the support from a close to the pitch 35k seater to a stadium more than 2 1/2 times that size. I'm sure it will improve on the move back to new WHL.

For a variety of reasons (to do with family relations who got the tickets) I was sat in the away end. I found the stewarding very biased - in favour of away fans. Some of them by me spent the whole game stood up winding up Spurs fans. Naturally the home fans about 15 seats away responded but who got reprimanded and in 1 case asked to leave?That's right the Spurs fan. The stewards did virtually nothing to control the away fans. Now I know Bournemouth are not Millwall, West Ham etc but this seemed all very biased. It was as if they were afraid of the away fans kicking off en masse. Very unlikely but is this normal at Wembley? I don't recall it like this at WHL.

Coming to Southampton home game on Boxing Day, in a private box. Whooopppeee. COYS.