We dominated the first half and hit the post three fucking times. Of course he wasn't about to move Eriksen, Lamela or Alli because they all looked pretty sharp and like they might have found the net between the three of them. Eriksen moving into CM would have given WBA a much easier time of finding a pass than the fucking pitbull that is/was Ryan Mason. Mason is a great player for us who is tenacious as all hell, this is why he was brought on, because he loves a good fucking tackle.
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We dominated the first half and hit the post three fucking times. Of course he wasn't about to move Eriksen, Lamela or Alli because they all looked pretty sharp and like they might have found the net between the three of them. Eriksen moving into CM would have given WBA a much easier time of finding a pass than the fucking pitbull that is/was Ryan Mason. Mason is a great player for us who is tenacious as all hell, this is why he was brought on, because he loves a good fucking tackle.
I was in the East Lower, and at times I had to cup my hands and shout into my mates ear to make myself heard. I've been to many matches where the atmosphere was poor, but last night wasn't one of them.
I blame the result on the changing of the OP
Was going to answer a post but more important matter has come up?....started to rain and need to get washing in.
Yes...life goes on. no matter what happens in football and with Spurs. We suffer the highs and low but have no say in the outcome.
Time for bed I think
Well pissed off
Warrants both of you being binned!
Leave it to Christian in future!
Well pissed off
Warrants both of you being binned!
Leave it to Christian in future!
Strange to read the comments about the crowd. The trains from Liverpool St were fucked up and many fans (including our group) arrived 20 mins late. I've no idea how it came across on TV, but the crowd was great last night. Constant singing, and the response when WB equalised was immense. Also, asRaiders has mentioned the ground broke out in a chorus of 'we love you Tottenham we do' at the final whistle. Maybe the sky sound engineer got it wrong, but the crowd certainly wasn't quiet.
Though the atmosphere seemed good and there was plenty of singing, it did come across on tv as though, there was a degree of nervousness in the crowd. I suspect every single Spurs fan in the world felt some sense of "we cannot fuck up with the title on line against WBA". It'd be strange if that didn't reflect in the crowd.
Still, as always I'm proud of the support, so well done to everyone there, and still proud of the team. Yeah, you'd always want - and as things are going now, dare I say, expect - 3 solid points at home to WBA. But just as with the Pool result, our response is just so tempered by our situation with a win being a necessity every single time, the team takes the field. A draw at Pool is, viewed in isolation, a good result, and a draw at home to WBA, though not a good result, isn't a disaster in a season where the gap between top 4-7, the middle pack and the bottom teams have narrowed significantly. It's just the nature of the league table that makes it feel such a disaster. Had it been in September, it would - for most of us - be, onwards and upwards.
As we've consolidated top 4, then top 2 and pushed for the title, it's gotten lost in translation that we still have the youngest team in the league by some margin. These lads will learn from last night and use it constructively. We should just be thankful that we've got a manager, who's not just filled our team and squad with HG and English players, but also with only winners. I cannot find a single Adebayor-like player in the squad, where I'd suspect that they don't care and go out clubbing after the match. These guys will make us proud and push on even more now against Chelsea, the last two matches and into next season.
If the Gods favoured us, Woolwich would have long since been forcefully relegated to non-league for bribing their way into the top tier, chavs wouldn't have pulled a CL-miracle, and Lasagne would never have come into existence.......
It will only really be tough if Leicester win at OT - if they don't they'll have fresh impetus (not that securing a top two finish shouldn't be enough).
I wouldn't exactly call it a punch as I've received worse from Mrs B but it was a silly thing to do as he fell into that cunt's trap who had been niggling at him from the off .
But he'll learn as he's only 19!
Interesting that we had the 2nd loudest fans in the league last season (Utd were 1st, but their ground is more than twice the size of ours) taken on decibel levels home and away, and then combined to give an average. I'm at a loss to know why the crowd sounded nervous, it certainly didn't seem like that to me.
I watched the Stoke game on TV, and for the first 10 minutes the sound mixing was terrible. Whoever was responsible sorted it out, but clearly it can be misleading. The Leicester fans claiming 'you could hear a pin drop' are obviously exaggerating, but they must have got the idea from somewhere. All I can say is I was there, and the atmosphere was very good with noise emanating from unusual areas of the ground. Shame it didn't come across like that.
The loudest fans in the Premier League revealed
Assuming Spurs can win their final 3, a loss vs United and two ties vs Everton/Chelsea is definitely still in the realm of possibilities.
That Alli punch clearly seemed to motivate a side that seemed pretty disinterested at kickoff. Dele should have his head examined. Any idea what the motivation was for the punch ?
Age is one of them and a lack of maturity, but to be fair he had been kicked and tackled hard a few times.
Yacob had a nasty - though not over the top - tackle on Alli in the first five minutes, as I recall. And some scraps off the ball.
Care to elaborate what makes you state so confidently that the punch was the reason for WBA's improved second half? I can think of five betters reasons off the top of my head...
I still felt it was bookable. They were a little rough initially and got away wit a few. Evans was carded and got away with a couple after too.
Players do seem to get away with a lot more in the first five or ten minutes. Would tend to agree it was a booking, however it's not really a challenge, you'd put past Alli himself making. It's fine having the nasty edge to his game. I think, like others have said, that it adds to his game. It has to be an edge though, and I cannot help feel that if/when it's not just him playing to the limits of the rules, it's not advantage....like last night, I feel it must have effected his mindset and concentration on playing the match itself, when he was sufficiently angry at an early tackle, to run around, waiting for an opportunity to get back at an opponent. It's different for the Roy Keane's and Eric Dier's of the world, but an AMC should roll with the punches and focus on attacking imho.