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Well, that's just cheered me right up!I'm reckon that being just about mathematically "safe" now was probably the biggest thrill of the night for some of the pessimists on here.
As a person, he's too nice. Imagine mourihno post match when interviewed he would have been blaming Atkinson.No mate. He was a snake like shapeshifting twat throughout. I hope him & his racist bunch fall to mid table or worse. They are shit if you keep Costa & Hazard quiet. I'm no manager but it's becoming fucking obvious how to shut them up. Poch schooled Conte tonight. As he had a full squad (minus Lamela) to choose from. We destroyed the league leaders with ease. They have hit their peak. We are just warming up. COYS
What if Dier would have Covered his face with his hands and fell to his knees feigning pain?Ear gouge. 6 match ban.
I was at that 6-1 thrashing among a few other depressing games against them. It all makes a victory like last night all the more sweet.It's strange, when you think back to that awful awful run we had against them (y'know, the curse that went on for what seemed like decades!) It started way back when they were actually shit... and yet year after year, we still couldn't beat them!
Yet once they actually put together a half-decent side, we seem to have much more success against a clearly better team than one with Michael Duberry, Babayaro and Tore Andre Flo in it... and they were in the team that thumped us 6-1 at home 20 years ago (remember those dark days?)
I know our team has improved vastly too... but it seems we seem to fare better against a better Chelsea team somehow, than we did against many of the shit ones!
Football's a weirdo sometimes!
All that's needed now to complete the set, and finally lift what's left of the 'curse', is to win at their place... I think we had an excellent, last season at 2-0 on HT... but then proceed to spontaneously combust!
Before that, I guess our best chance in recent memory was when Hossam Ghastly put us 2 (or was it 3) up in the Cup...
...but it can't be too long now until we finally do it!
I live in Tottenham Hale near the tube station...when I came home after the game, my Mrs said she could hear us singing the Dele Alli song and Oh When the Spurs after the second goal from inside the flat! She's never heard any crowd noise from the stadium before- we were loud last night, and much louder than Chelsea when they beat us at Stamford Bridge.
Love the Lane.still buzzing, even a visit to the dentist hasn't changed that.
30k spurs in full voice last night, is there a better ground?, biased of course but is there?
other clubs with twice that capacity not even coming near to a very special night
But somehow that Mourinho feeling about Chelsea just seem to stick with them IMO. And any team he ever coached really.As a person, he's too nice. Imagine mourihno post match when interviewed he would have been blaming Atkinson.
chelsea are cunts, yes. However, he isn't really. My opinion anyway.
Haha, I'm more than happy to look a cunt, long may it continue.
We made a couple of errors last night, vertonghen was daydreaming at the start 4 mins or so in to not be in line with the other 3 and gave hazard a really good chance.It was a very tactical game and we showed discipline in abundance.
I said yesterday that the Chelsea team are nowhere as good as 13 wins would suggest and that if you took Costa and Hazard out they would be nothing special.
We can play a lot better but are usually prone to an error or two which thankfully did not happen last night.
I think we are still in a position where it is one of 3/4 for the title (still think we are a striker and attacking midfield option light) and 4 out of 6 for the Champions League places.
No doubt however that we are nobody's pushover and that means we command respect from all.
Good feeling.
We made a couple of errors last night, vertonghen was daydreaming at the start 4 mins or so in to not be in line with the other 3 and gave hazard a really good chance.
The 2nd hazard chance was a bit soft too, but he bottled it.
Apart from that we were solid. I think walker and rose stopping Moses and alonso from getting forward played a big part.
I said before I think Kane made the space for Dele by keeping Cahill and Luiz preoccupied and Eriksen came deep and found lots. Dele slipped in between their two wide defenders and done them twice.
Conte is not nice by any meaning of the word, except the strictly technical sense of "competent" coach.Conte is too nice for Chelsea.
He certainly showed an effective way to beat them and winning a tactical battle vs Conte automatically means that Poch is a top tier coach in the world bar noone....
Poch schooled Conte tonight.
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