I can't remember whether it was on here or twitter I read it, but someone else said "we've sold Elvis and bought S Club 7!" - best quote I've heard in ages!
Haha yeah there's been quite a few of them now, S Club, Steps, Hearsay. As funny as they are, it's quite depressing knowing that the joke is stemmed from poor performers/ performances lol.
gotta laugh it off though mate. We'll all go insane otherwise. Supporting Tottenham has never been easy!
When two Spurs fans meet for the first the over whelming feeling is one of mutual sympathy and shared pain. It always makes me smile when rival fans try to wind us up. There is nothing they can say that we have not already dealt with at some time in the past.
*You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Spurf again.* We need IMO both a strong response and some attacking football. The two would seem to go together well. And yet...if Man U succeed in hitting us on the break, as Man City did, there will not be a lot of joy in these parts. Nevertheless, if I were AVB, I'd tell the team to play like we're a goal down, as against Newcastle in the second half, and keep playing that way until May. If I saw that, I'd see some real cause for optimism, even if we lost to Man U. Always go down with guns blazing. I sympathize. Just this once.
You know, thinking back, maybe there were warning signs in the pre-season friendly with Monaco. Some of the blame can be put on our late transfer dogpile (Capoue, Eriksen, Lamela and Chiriches hadn't been signed yet) plus we were missing Sandro and Kaboul through injury, but the squad that day was poorly thought-out. Parker started and Huddlestone was on the bench despite both being marked for departure, Soldado and Paulinho weren't even in the squad, we played with Fryers and Livermore at centre back, and an attacking trio of Lennon, Sigurdsson and Chadli is two poor decisions out of three.
The W.Ham result looks worse as the weeks go by since. This caption in the beeb match preview for WHUFC v FFC caught my eye... " So far, the scrutiny on West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has been less intense, but their results are hardly any better. Since the shock win at Tottenham, West Ham have taken two points from five games, scoring only twice. That might be an inevitable consequence of playing without a recognised striker, a tactic which took Spurs by surprise but has not worked since." I think they waltzed through us twice, as a good few have also, play a high line with Daws and Vertonghen and you will get that. If you think about it, there's 50% of the space between the defensive line and the keeper, patrolled by slow defenders. Dropping deeper 5/10yds eases that, gives Lloris less 'come or stay' decisions and gives more room for flair players. I'm not saying get faster defenders, just don't expose them.
Awful result and a largely **** performance Notso, but Allardyce happened to stumble on an effective strategy against our system in that game. The surprise factor had quite a lot to do with it though, in my opinion, which is why it's failed horribly since. Watching Downing hitting really dangerous crosses into the box against Chelsea last week was annoying for me. It must have frustrated the hell out of West Ham fans, as nobody got anywhere near them.
"Where did it all go wrong?" Probably in the first game v Palace where our sideways football gained us a fantastic win via the penalty spot...and it continued sneaking a few more fortunate wins making us think we finally have something building. Then a little.lower league club by the name of West Ham caught us with our trousers down,making us realize....hello,something ain't right here and,apart from easy prey in the Europa and League Cup games we have steadily gone down the tube....in a hurry! There is only one man who is making Spurs play sideways,backwards and boring.That is the manager.Now if Daniel likes this way of playing then he must be enjoying it all by himself. The fans are bloody bored silly and totally fed up with it!....maybe the players are too?????
Spurs official tweeted last night saying that in the games that vlad has played, (9 times) we've only lost once and conceded a total of 3. To me, this is even more alarming for Dawson. As I've said before, I think he's a great pro, but he's not the best defender for this high line. We either need to drop 10 yards like u say, or consider a different partnership at CB which doesn't involve him.
It all went wrong when you sold your only capable player to Real Madrid. No one bring this to you but yourself. You should hang on to him like your live is depends on him, but you sold him so now you're tasting the fruit of your own doing.
I believe there are websites where you will see a great deal of people tasting the fruit of their own doing. Though how this relates to football I'm not sure.
If we'd sold Elvis and brought the Beatles in 1962, it would have been a great deal. Doing it in 1960 would have been an even better one but it would not have looked like it at first.
Totally agree mate. With Benni gone, I'd feel safer with Vertonghen at LB, and Kaboul and Chririches as CB's
We suffered a similar problem with AVB playing a high line with Terry in the side. We got raped in one game v Arsenal in particular cos they had the pace and quality to expose it. Starting to wonder if his time at Porto was the exception not the rule re his ability as a top manager.
