27th Feb 2012 - Is It Safe To Come Out Yet?
Well that wasn’t quite how it was supposed to go was it?
I should have known better but I had a lovely feeling yesterday as I’m sure most of you all did; that for the first time in well over 20 years, we could look at the teams in the morning papers and think only Van Persie would get near our current team. We are playing well, we are stable at the back and we have goals all over the place. They have been abject, are **** at the back, and can only score through one man. Happy days, we can follow up last season’s wonderful fight back with something more substantial and really start rubbing their smug noses in it.
But then the actual team was put out and I began to worry. I’m not being a clever ******* and I’m not talking after the event but surely a team that is built to beat an under strength Newcastle at home isn’t the one to go and get amongst this lot on their home patch? Didn’t last weekend’s pathetic show at Stevenage (and previously at Watford) remind the future England manager that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it and what has served us so well all season may just keep doing so?
I’m not jumping on the doom and gloom band wagon but let’s get real; we got bullied yesterday by a midfield of Arteta, Rosicky and Benayoun-that is embarrassing-they shouldn’t bully an under 14’s team, yet seemed to be winning all the 50/50s. Sling into the mix Parker’s ludicrous chasing of lost causes (although in fairness he was doing the work of two men in there) and diving into tackles on the edge of our box and we suffer a cringe worthy hour yesterday and now face Man U with more unnecessary changes. I know injuries dictate availability but we should stick to a way of playing that works and yesterday we didn’t and I have had to listen to incessant bollocks from idiot goons for 24 hours.
But maybe this was a little necessary wakeup call and it could inspire us to pick up, dust down and get stuck in for what is going to be an interesting run in and hopefully a couple of trips to Wembley in the cup. I really hope so because I do believe this is a new Spurs and the occasional slip up will happen but it doesn’t spell the beginning of a desperate run.........................fingers crossed.
Anyway that is the moaning out of the way. I think I am mainly annoyed because this article was supposed to be called “Magic Moments” and be a list of all the players/decisions/ goal posts that have featured in wonderful moments against the ****. I was even discussing this over beer before kickoff, that’s how confident I was. I’m sure there were a few of you there with me. It was lovely whilst it lasted wasn’t it?!
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