96 years! I've never seen anything this bad..... its been 96 years since we last had a start to the season as bad as this. Every week it gets worse. Another couple of winless performances and we'll be looking at having set a new record for the worst start ever to a league campaign.
All is not well at Tottenham Hotspur. That is plain to see. After ten games in all competition we have only two wins - neither of which has come in the Premier League. The last four games in the top flight have ended with a scoreline of "Tottenahm Hotspur nil". And still we remain rooted to the foot of the table. Its October! What the hell is going on?!
The statistics make for truly shocking reading.
The line-up for the match was more balanced than we've seen for a long while. Bale and Gunther in the full back positions, King dropped (no surprises there) with Corluka filling in..... Jenas and Zokora in the middle, Lennon starting on the right, Modric also in the starting eleven, and Campbell partnering Pavlyuchenko.
The start was promising, but within five minutes Hull had carved out a great opportunity with Geovanni coasting into the box, slipping past Woodgate and firing over the bar when he really should have hit the target. Redemption came soon after though. What I thought was a dodgy free-kick, awarded for a tackle from behind that clearly won the ball, and we were a goal down with less than ten minutes on the clock.
Gomes spent an age lining-up the wall, but in the end he could only remain fixed to his spot on the line as Geovanni curled the most precise and exquisite free kick into the top corner. No doubt there will be plenty of people questioning the keeper's positioning, okay. The only way to keep that out would be to have two keepers. The positioning was so good that the goal has to count as one of the best free kicks of the season. Top drawer.
Modric finally got into something more closely resembling his stride yesterday, making himself available to receive the ball and pass on quickly. Its worrying to think that he wasn't able to take his time on the ball and create, but if he can position himself correctly to receive and if we can provide the outlets for him to offload then he can still come good.
Jenas had a reasonable game. There was more commitment but still a lack of end product. Zokora was OK. Lennon played better when starting yesterday than he had on Thursday, and even Bentley managed to deliver some decent balls.
At the back, while Corluka's pace is totally missing, his composure on the ball is to be applauded. Although the Hull strikers posed a few problems for the centre halves - Woodgate having a more dubious game than for a while - we were acceptably OK at the back.
