Howard Webb. Webby. The Webster. What’s your problem exactly? Giving Bentley a yellow card for a dive when he was obviously judo-chopped by Zenden? Not giving Kieran Richardson a yellow for that cheeky time-wasting heel flick when we were trying to take a quick foul kick? Huh?
I should have known things wouldn’t be any different tonight. Not ever! Who do you work for exactly? “Who does number 2 work for”?
So many overlooked “potential booking” moments were there, laid out before your very eyes and you still didn’t take them. You just love the controversy, eh? I wonder if it gets you laid. Hmm…
We took the game to Sunderland. It was only a matter of time before we would score. A lovely persistent play by BAE pushed the ball out to Bale, he crossed to Crouch’s head, who deja-vu’d it to Van Der Vaart’s arm chest for a wonderful turnaround goal!
You missed that one, did ya Webbon of Mass Destruction?
Then a blunder at the back resulted in a Sunderland goal. Miscomunicado extravaganza. Don’t Kaboul and Gallas speak the same language? FFS! They were doing so well too.
We were sloppy in the second half. The team looked tired. We were looking for that explosive moment when we would take the game back, but you know how the story goes: we didn’t. Bale’s final ball was never really there but Michael Turner was. It’s not to say Bale was completely subdued, but he just wasn’t as effective on the evening.
Bentley had some great touches off the right wing, but he began to piss off the supporters with his erratic long distance shots. Speaking of “long”, I am so sick of the long ball passes to Crouch. It just really makes me cringe and I’ve had enough!
1 point. 1 effing point from measly Sunderland at the Lane. Without their leading goalscorer, Twitty.
I’m just sick of it all. Bring on Blackburn.
Tags: controversy, Defensive Blunder, draw, Gareth Bale, Howard Webb, Peter Crouch, Rafael Van Der Vaart, spurs, Sunderland AFC, Tottenham Hotspur
i bleed hotspur 
November 10, 2010 at 2:07 pm |
Panic is fine; we both do panic.
But don’t lose heart.
Premiership 6th but we are going to win the Champions’ League.
You read it first in ‘i bleed hotspur’
Dissapointed not to see Jenas and your love child Kranjcar on for the last 20 minutes
Keeping you fingers crossed, Harry, is not a game plan
November 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm |
Well said JimmyG2. There were 3 main problems last night:
1. The long ball tactic in the final 20 minutes
2. Redknapp doing nothing except I presume telling the players to hoof it forward in the final 20 minutes.
3. The biggest problem is trying to fit vdV into our team. It’s causing issue’s with creativity and more importantly goal scoring in the league. Not vdV’s fault, he’s immense but something needs to be done with the formation.
Nothing to worry ourselves about too much at this stage. We’ve had much worse starts to a season and have the ability once injured players return to go on a good run, but the lack of imagination from the bench was a real worry for me.
November 10, 2010 at 11:31 pm |
@JimmyG2: haven’t lost heart, just frustrated. But that’s why I dearly love this emotional death trap they call the Spurs. I’m ashamed that I’m not on NewsNow so everyone can read your revelation 🙂
@drwinston: your third point is extremely interesting; not something most would notice. How would you resolve an issue like this?
November 13, 2010 at 12:12 pm |
drwinston.
Do you mean 2pts from 8 games? And we still finished 8th.
Get 11 decent players and get them to ‘******* run about a bit’
Rush goalie, jumpers for goalposts: you know the drill. It always worked for the Islington Nomads down the park.
Its never been tried at this level so it will have the element of surprise.
What think you el?
November 13, 2010 at 1:30 pm |
Screw it! At this point let’s throw whatever we can at our opponents and bring some points to the table.
A little bit of risk never hurt nobody 😉