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Stole? They fucking gave them to us...
So true. The MoTD highlights certainly did not reflect the domination which was the reality. As for the "penalty" it was fucking laughable.....touched his finger nail perhaps....but the commentary was a nailed on Pen & no replay. Which is annoying as the replay shows the dive not the clear Pen !
WindyCOYS
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PROBABLYsick of everyone saying after the win north london is ours...sorry to burst your bubble but win, lose or draw, north london is ours...woolwich arnt north london period..
ecstatic over the win though..fucking kane who would have thought it ay? yes yesKeaneBean you Nostradamus cunt and probably
WindyCOYS ...but me..shit i wrote him off ...happy to be proved wrong..
Don't forget the headphones and water bottle lol
Morning
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in all honestly though windy, did you see kane being this good? of course i dont think anyone thought he'd be this good but did you see the potential? I watch our youth teams pretty regularly and i always thought him decent but didnt expect him to crack our first team anytime soon, if ever...
Watched all the videos, interviews and read the articles they are hurting inside more than ever . Although we battered and bruised them, like a boxer they put on a pair of (rosetinted)sunglasses and all is hidden? II do feel there is an arrogance about them that they are dismissing this result as only 3 points and they will still finish above us, its our cup final and so on. they are beingg gracious in defeat only becuse they belive this.
From the Sunday Times: David Walsh.
SOMETIMES this Woolwich team just doesn’t get it. In his every utterance before the game, Mauricio Pochettino, the Spurs manager, spoke about how these derby games were so much about passion and emotion. At one level he was offering a traditional view of a north London rivalry, but at another level he was goading Woolwich: we’ll be combative, will you?
Woolwich had to compete at that level, to be as fiery as their rivals. They didn’t come close and they got what they deserved from the game. You may imagine the latest goals in the Harry Kane catalogue are the story, but they’re not. Rather it was the chasm between the teams’ relative hunger for the battle. It bordered on embarrassing for Woolwich.
In the seconds after Kane’s majestically headed winner in the 85th minute, the Woolwich substitute Tomas Rosicky went from one teammate to another, desperately trying to inspire a fightback. It seemed he was speaking a language his teammates didn’t understand.
“Physically we weren’t very good,” said the Woolwich manager Arsène Wenger, “and the referee was at our level.” The jibe about the referee was unfair but not unimportant, for it speaks of Woolwich’s yearning for protection when the other team starts to see the 50-50 ball as theirs by divine right. How many times did Aaron Ramsey look imploringly at Martin Atkinson after been bullied off the ball by someone in a white shirt?
It was cracking entertainment because Spurs’ intensity ensured the game was played at helter-skelter pace, but there was still plenty of decent football. Woolwich got off to an excellent start through Mesut Ozil’s 11th-minute volley. The goal wasn’t without a touch of good fortune and a hint of offside.
Danny Welbeck did well to outpace Danny Rose and pull the ball back for Olivier Giroud. The French striker miscued but the ball flew high towards Ozil. He may have been inches offside but the flag stayed down and the volley was neatly executed.
However Woolwich might have played without the benefit of that goal we can’t know, but with it they were hopeless. Wenger said they stopped playing and that their offensive game was well short of what he expects. Ozil was a particular case. As the tempo grew more intense, he became less interested. Kyle Walker had £42.5m worth of football talent in his pocket and he spent a lot of time charging down the wing, Ozil occasionally in his slipstream, occasionally not.
You wonder about Pochettino, inset, and what he is bringing to Spurs. Under his influence, this collection of players has begun to play like a team and the question yesterday was whether they would sustain their intensity after they had cancelled out that early goal. It seemed certain they would level the match.
David Ospina made good saves from Kane and Rose, then Rose and Nabil Bentaleb both fired shots across goal as Spurs drove relentlessly forward. “We were dominated in midfield,” Wenger said afterwards. Ramsey was peripheral and poor Santi Cazorla, who has been so good in Woolwich’s recent run, didn’t even get to the game’s periphery.
Whatever desire Woolwich had was channelled into defending their goal and they did this effectively for almost an hour. Yet they were like the dog that chases cars: eventually something bad is bound to happen. It came in the 56th minute, Mousa Dembele flicking on a corner, Ospina parrying it away and Kane steering it home at the far post.
That goal encapsulated why the centre-forward is scoring so many goals right now. Corner after corner, he stood far beyond the back post, not putting himself in position to challenge for a headed goal. It seemed a waste of his aerial ability but, of course, when Dembele’s flick-on is pushed away, it falls into his path.
Woolwich responded by getting their attacking game going again. Welbeck’s sweetly-struck shot was well saved by Hugo Lloris, Cazorla drew another save from the goalkeeper and then Laurent Koscielny drilled a header straight at Lloris. But the game soon returned to the pattern set by Spurs.
They regained control of affairs, somehow convincing Woolwich that every 50-50 ball was theirs, and when Kane headed the winning goal it seemed appropriate that the team which wanted victory the most was the one that would have it. It was appropriate, too, that Bentaleb should have supplied the cross, because his energy and desire epitomised the difference between the teams. His delivery flew towards Kane, who saw it coming, took a step away from Koscielny and then rose early to guide a looping header back into the top corner of the net. There are headed goals and there are beautifully headed goals, and this was one of the latter.
The game ended with Woolwich pressing but with Spurs continuing to play with great heart. It seems an old-fashioned thing to say that the home team’s determination to win made the difference. Old-fashioned it may be, but grit and passion and heart still have their place. Otherwise Spurs wouldn’t be fifth in the league, and Woolwich wouldn’t be sixth.
Star man: Harry Kane (Tottenham)
SOMETIMES this Woolwich team just doesn’t get it. In his every utterance before the game, Mauricio Pochettino, the Spurs manager, spoke about how these derby games were so much about passion and emotion. At one level he was offering a traditional view of a north London rivalry, but at another level he was goading Woolwich: we’ll be combative, will you?
Woolwich had to compete at that level, to be as fiery as their rivals. They didn’t come close and they got what they deserved from the game. You may imagine the latest goals in the Harry Kane catalogue are the story, but they’re not. Rather it was the chasm between the teams’ relative hunger for the battle. It bordered on embarrassing for Woolwich.
In the seconds after Kane’s majestically headed winner in the 85th minute, the Woolwich substitute Tomas Rosicky went from one teammate to another, desperately trying to inspire a fightback. It seemed he was speaking a language his teammates didn’t understand.
“Physically we weren’t very good,” said the Woolwich manager Arsène Wenger, “and the referee was at our level.” The jibe about the referee was unfair but not unimportant, for it speaks of Woolwich’s yearning for protection when the other team starts to see the 50-50 ball as theirs by divine right. How many times did Aaron Ramsey look imploringly at Martin Atkinson after been bullied off the ball by someone in a white shirt?
It was cracking entertainment because Spurs’ intensity ensured the game was played at helter-skelter pace, but there was still plenty of decent football. Woolwich got off to an excellent start through Mesut Ozil’s 11th-minute volley. The goal wasn’t without a touch of good fortune and a hint of offside.
Danny Welbeck did well to outpace Danny Rose and pull the ball back for Olivier Giroud. The French striker miscued but the ball flew high towards Ozil. He may have been inches offside but the flag stayed down and the volley was neatly executed.
However Woolwich might have played without the benefit of that goal we can’t know, but with it they were hopeless. Wenger said they stopped playing and that their offensive game was well short of what he expects. Ozil was a particular case. As the tempo grew more intense, he became less interested. Kyle Walker had £42.5m worth of football talent in his pocket and he spent a lot of time charging down the wing, Ozil occasionally in his slipstream, occasionally not.
You wonder about Pochettino, inset, and what he is bringing to Spurs. Under his influence, this collection of players has begun to play like a team and the question yesterday was whether they would sustain their intensity after they had cancelled out that early goal. It seemed certain they would level the match.
David Ospina made good saves from Kane and Rose, then Rose and Nabil Bentaleb both fired shots across goal as Spurs drove relentlessly forward. “We were dominated in midfield,” Wenger said afterwards. Ramsey was peripheral and poor Santi Cazorla, who has been so good in Woolwich’s recent run, didn’t even get to the game’s periphery.
Whatever desire Woolwich had was channelled into defending their goal and they did this effectively for almost an hour. Yet they were like the dog that chases cars: eventually something bad is bound to happen. It came in the 56th minute, Mousa Dembele flicking on a corner, Ospina parrying it away and Kane steering it home at the far post.
That goal encapsulated why the centre-forward is scoring so many goals right now. Corner after corner, he stood far beyond the back post, not putting himself in position to challenge for a headed goal. It seemed a waste of his aerial ability but, of course, when Dembele’s flick-on is pushed away, it falls into his path.
Woolwich responded by getting their attacking game going again. Welbeck’s sweetly-struck shot was well saved by Hugo Lloris, Cazorla drew another save from the goalkeeper and then Laurent Koscielny drilled a header straight at Lloris. But the game soon returned to the pattern set by Spurs.
They regained control of affairs, somehow convincing Woolwich that every 50-50 ball was theirs, and when Kane headed the winning goal it seemed appropriate that the team which wanted victory the most was the one that would have it. It was appropriate, too, that Bentaleb should have supplied the cross, because his energy and desire epitomised the difference between the teams. His delivery flew towards Kane, who saw it coming, took a step away from Koscielny and then rose early to guide a looping header back into the top corner of the net. There are headed goals and there are beautifully headed goals, and this was one of the latter.
The game ended with Woolwich pressing but with Spurs continuing to play with great heart. It seems an old-fashioned thing to say that the home team’s determination to win made the difference. Old-fashioned it may be, but grit and passion and heart still have their place. Otherwise Spurs wouldn’t be fifth in the league, and Woolwich wouldn’t be sixth.
Star man: Harry Kane (Tottenham)
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Stole? No earnt
last year and the year before that saw lots of Woolwich fans on twitter complaining being ambushed on the walk away, bunch of fucking vaginas, they all admit they're scared when coming to the lane, bunch of coffee drinking spastics nowadays, their fanbase has changed so much, and becoming easily the softest fanbase in the league, too scared to sing, and scared of coming to white hart lane, thats why they sit quietly in the escort
Love it. Proud to be Spurs.
If Wembley final against Chelsea goes to extra time or penalties, it might have a little impact on fitness for subsequent games.
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Its on Goals on Sunday
Loving all this Kane praise
Loving all this Kane praise