Thursday, September 30, 2010
Spurs 4 Twente 1
Monday, September 27, 2010
Bad times for Spurs
The following took place between last week and this week. A mediocre draw at Werder Bremen in the champions league, A lucky victory over Wolves, A loss to Arsenal in the carling cup followed by another loss to West Ham in the league. Bad times are upon us.
Champions league night and a debut to remember in many ways. For our first outing, we travel to Germany where we face Champions league hardened Bremen. Half an hour in and things are looking up, an own goal by Werder Bremen followed by a customary headed goal by Crouch, 2-0 up, good stuff. Then its down stream from there, 2-1 by halftime, and 2-2 by the fulltime whistle. Spurs will be kicking themselves for not bagging the three points on offer.
In the league we have Wolves at the Lane, memories of a 1-0 home and away defeat to them in last seasons campaign are still fresh on our minds. Its halftime and again we are 1-0 down. It takes the effort of Van de Vaart from the spot and two late goals by Hutton and Bale to salvage this one. Not a comfortable victory if I may say so.
Its Tuesday night and an epic Carling cup tie is in store. Tottenham vs Arsenal at the Lane. Everything seems to be on our side; playing at home, a minimum quarter final exit in our past 7 year campaign, the mindset of a manager (Wenger) who does not acknowledge the importance of the cup and a better looking bench with sergeant Wilson, Keane, Pav, Kranjcar and Sandro all set to feature. Morale is high at the Lane expacting Arsenal to field a team that the most diehard of supporters would struggle with. Shock and behold it is Redknapp who fields a team that the most diehard of supporters would struggle with; Steve Caulker and Bassong in centre back, Naughton at the left, Livermore in mid, Giovani, Bentley, Sandro all start. Arsenal however are with Chamakh, Nasri, Denilson, Koscielny, Eboue and Gibbs. 1-1 to send the tie into extra time. Two penalties inside six minutes to put the game beyond us and a final Arshavin strike to seal it at 4-1. Awful.
Come the weekend and West Ham are upon us and as usual we have the heroics of Robert Green to thank for denying Modric, Vaart and Huddlestone misses after going clear and rounding a helpless Green. The result is that we lose 1-0.
Lets hope Wednesdays game against FC Twente goes better.
Champions league night and a debut to remember in many ways. For our first outing, we travel to Germany where we face Champions league hardened Bremen. Half an hour in and things are looking up, an own goal by Werder Bremen followed by a customary headed goal by Crouch, 2-0 up, good stuff. Then its down stream from there, 2-1 by halftime, and 2-2 by the fulltime whistle. Spurs will be kicking themselves for not bagging the three points on offer.
In the league we have Wolves at the Lane, memories of a 1-0 home and away defeat to them in last seasons campaign are still fresh on our minds. Its halftime and again we are 1-0 down. It takes the effort of Van de Vaart from the spot and two late goals by Hutton and Bale to salvage this one. Not a comfortable victory if I may say so.
Its Tuesday night and an epic Carling cup tie is in store. Tottenham vs Arsenal at the Lane. Everything seems to be on our side; playing at home, a minimum quarter final exit in our past 7 year campaign, the mindset of a manager (Wenger) who does not acknowledge the importance of the cup and a better looking bench with sergeant Wilson, Keane, Pav, Kranjcar and Sandro all set to feature. Morale is high at the Lane expacting Arsenal to field a team that the most diehard of supporters would struggle with. Shock and behold it is Redknapp who fields a team that the most diehard of supporters would struggle with; Steve Caulker and Bassong in centre back, Naughton at the left, Livermore in mid, Giovani, Bentley, Sandro all start. Arsenal however are with Chamakh, Nasri, Denilson, Koscielny, Eboue and Gibbs. 1-1 to send the tie into extra time. Two penalties inside six minutes to put the game beyond us and a final Arshavin strike to seal it at 4-1. Awful.
Come the weekend and West Ham are upon us and as usual we have the heroics of Robert Green to thank for denying Modric, Vaart and Huddlestone misses after going clear and rounding a helpless Green. The result is that we lose 1-0.
Lets hope Wednesdays game against FC Twente goes better.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Good News and Bad News
The bad news is, we lost 1-0 to Wigan at home, the good news 'the great one' Rafael Van der Vaart is coming to Tottenham Hotspur. The deal was completed on the last day of the transfer window when Real Madrid reduced his price from 18mil to 8mil and Redknapp did not miss that.
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