Tottenham Hotspur 2011-2012 Official Thread

[London_Calling]

Martin Jol: you beauty!

^ that was Boxing Day when they got a draw at Chelsea. Today I think I love him:

85' and 0-1 down to the goons. And they win 2-1. Bluddy marvellous is what that is

Happy New Year !

 

[chieftain]

Martin Jols a top chap indeed

 

[Corax]

w00t!!!

 

[chieftain]

Come on Tottenham fans, give Swansea at least a bit of credit for that fightback.

You're right. Well done Jacks, good game and well played

 

[stavros]

Martin Jols a top chap indeed

Relaxing with some friends;

 

[London_Calling]

West Brom tonight then - the first of four consecutive home games, after which the 9-game run of madness begins.

Goodness, Lennon is almost ready again. Ditto Ledley. Dawson is fit and so is Defoe. If we could start that run with a full squad it'd at least be something....

Fixtures - gets silly from the 22nd:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/fixtures/default.stm

 

[Maurice Picarda]

The West Stand has been emasculated.

 

[chieftain]

Nice win, another 3 points in the bag-gies!!

 

[Corax]

Well that was very much 'ground out'. Nonetheless, it puts us 5 points above Chelski with a game in hand, and another point over the scum. Only two behind Man U. Not a bad season so far tbh.

The West Stand has been emasculated.

Fan in the West Stand collapsed and was having CPR for the first 15 minutes apparently, to no avail. Explains the rather subdued atmosphere perhaps. RIP Yiddo.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

What a shame.

I only meant that the cock had been taken down, due to wind.

The West is never particularly noisy, anyway.

 

[Corax]

Whole place sounded pretty quiet to me, I was wondering why. Only saw about the fan after the game, but it would certainly explain it.

 

[London_Calling]

Quite glad the senior players will get an 8-day break now to rest and prepare for the game in hand with Everton. I assume 'arry will do that, anyway. Injury news will be interesting tomorrow.

If we can beat Everton and don't slip up vs. Wolves the following weekend, we could even start thinking in terms of 'the gap to 5th'.

 

[ska invita]

Did you see that "Tottenham can definitely win it," said Alex Ferguson. "They play the best football in the country and their current form is the best in the country."" a couple of days back? Man U then went on to fluff it against Blackburn ...if only we'd got all 3 points against Swansea...

 

[Corax]

Did you see that "Tottenham can definitely win it," said Alex Ferguson. "They play the best football in the country and their current form is the best in the country."

Baconface and his 'mind games'.

 

[El Sueno]

...if only we'd got all 3 points against Swansea...

And all 3 against Chelski...

 

[Corax]

Nice one, professor.

 

[xes]

"ze pocket, I did not see it"

And after Newcastle just beat Manu. I thought I needed to post this

 

[ska invita]

And after Newcastle just beat Manu. I thought I needed to post this

I refer the right honorable gentleman to post #1149
Looks like Fergie has jinxed himself in backing spurs!! Lost two on the trot since!

 

[London_Calling]

Something of note to start the new year with: If we win our next three, at the very least, we will be joint top* on Jan 22nd, and you don't get to say that very often.

* said in hope rather than expectation:
Everton - the game in hand (h)
Wolves (h)
Citeh (a)

 

[London_Calling]

He is Risen! Bostock is a named sub today.

 

[Corax]

Another 3 points in the bag today. That puts us level with Man U.

And what a match it was. In decades to come, people will ask each other where they were when Spurs beat the mighty Cheltenham.

 

[London_Calling]

I shouldn't be too disappointed, not even 'arry can be expected to get us out of another nonsense cup this early.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

nonsense cup

Come now. It's a venerable competition and a double is 40 years overdue.

 

[London_Calling]

Fine for non-leagues side but otherwise it's a meaningless, overhyped distraction. IMO.

 

[Corax]

More credibility that the wafer though.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Elsie is well on the way to deciding that football itself is a meaningless, overhyped distraction, as with everything else.

 

[London_Calling]

If we qualify for the CL this season and the building work (on the stadium) begins in earnest as planned this summer, I suppose I see having Modric and Bale as a potential bridge between now and occupying that new stadium - at which point the club will generate enough income to legitimately expect to have players like Modric and Bale. And fwiw, it's not really about seating capacity, it's all about huge corp.ent.

But if we don't qualify this year, one or both will be gone and the club will find itself on a very different CL trajectory, one that relies on income from the new stadium to build a squad again - in other words all that good stuff moves several years, or a decade, down the road. There's a decent chance we can have that now, if we get this Premiership season right. The FA Cup doesn't help us do that. IMO.

/Eeyore

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Watford. Not what the Schopenhauer of the Lane will have been hoping for.

 

[London_Calling]

Jim Rosenthal: how he's not a black cab driver I'll never know.

 

[Refused as fuck]

What's this? Sir Harold, King of Essex trying to unsettle players by discussing their contracts in public? Surley not? I would have assumed given his outrage over Chelsea's approaches for Modric that he was against such unscrupulous behaviour.

But asked about a £10m release clause, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp said: “I think you will find it is a lot less than that.”

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