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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