Defence. Defence. It is spelt defence and not defense which is the 'Murican spelling of the word. Please, it really messes with my tiny little brain the way you keep misspelling it.
The empty seats has been apparent in most games this week. I think it's less people put off by the football and more to do with covid reasons. I'm coming down for this as I did for West Ham. Every so often through the waves of absolutely shockingly abysmal football we usually play, a miraculous result somehow beams out of the heavens above and shocks the lot of us. I thought it may be West Ham. It may be Spurs. Who knows. I'll be drunk enough not to care if not. But I'll be there just in case. 0-4 Spurs by half time...
So…I agreed to my 15 yr old inviting 20 friends over on New Year’s Eve because I thought we would definitely be under some kind of restrictions by then and so the gathering wouldn’t happen. Oops. Then, just as I thought my New Year couldn’t get any worse, I remembered that I agreed to go to this pile of ***** on New Year’s Day. 2022 can surely only get better after this start. Prediction: 0-4 at some point, which is when I’ll probably leave.
I was watching the 2-1 win in this fixture, which made it P4 W4 D0 L0 and blasted us up to third - actually joint top with Man City and Chelsea. We played with passion, even though we fell behind to Doucoure's OG we battled back and won the game. I remember sitting next to a bloke who kept shouting "Champions elect" all game. Thinking how organized, mentally strong and with a never-give-up attitude we had that day made me wonder if we will ever see that again.
Unfortunately I thought that was the idea of the Chelsea and Man City games and look what happened vs Brentford and a West Ham team with five points from their last eight games. Those Norwich and Newcastle games are going to be grim affairs whatever the results unless we miraculously get a confidence-boosting win on New Year's Day.
Historically, have always struggled against this horrid, arrogant club. They really aren't all that this season, if WFC show some backbone and get into these showponies, we can win this.
The last gathering she had ended up with me staying up all night doing washing, cleaning a carpet and making sure the guest responsible for the carnage wasn’t choking on his own vomit. So, yes, you could say I haven’t learnt from my mistakes. This time, though, the teens are in the kitchen (no carpet), only a select few are staying and I have sent all the parents of those coming an email asking them to make sure their child does not bring additional alcohol with them. Fingers crossed..
Louza to help us keep the ball, pass to our own team and deliver some half decent set pieces. King as a number 9 where he has held the ball up well, linked play and scored 5 goals. Dennis being Dennis but told to defend a little less so keeping some energy for the last half an hour Pedro to start Sissoko obviously Now it gets tricky….Cleverly if fit / non covid. If not then Kucka I guess, Now the totally irrelevant part. Get all the GK’s and Defenders into a big room from U’18 upwards and do some fitness tests, problem solving, general brain testing etc and then pick the 5 who come out on top. We could get an entertaining 3-6 defeat that way. Or, what we’ve done last 2 games and get a non entertaining 0-6 arse whopping.
Haha yes it does look bad. But, tbf, the 15 year old works bloody hard at school and I felt she deserved some kind of release before the GCSE mocks start. I just made the mistake of setting a limit of 20, thinking we would probably be in the “rule of 6” or something similar by NYE. Anyway, don’t want to derail the match thread any more so back to our predictions of doom and gloom..
Son and Moura will have a field day. Kane will have his easiest game of the season. Only positive is we look like we will score every single game. Defensively hopeless so will be at least 3 or 4
Haven’t you heard, Tweenies all do ‘Pres’ (pronounced ‘prees’) before they go to parties. Drink as many cheap shots as possible at home ensuring they are 2 drinks and 50 minutes away from being totally out of control at your daughter’s ‘2 alcoholic drinks max’ gathering, and subsequently witnessing projectile vomit... Good luck
All our AFCON players hold back as they don’t want to be injured before the taxi ride to the airport. Son will score. Someone will make a defensive error. 1-3
Tbf, this is nothing new or revolutionary - we all prelashed the entire time at uni, and that particular period began in the previous decade pour moi
Ah the prelash! I remember those days of a 2l bottle of cider in garston park before jumping on a bus and heading to Paradise Lost with my fake ID for a few more Diamond Whites until 2am before stumbling home wasted! Good times.
God knows why but I think we can re-organise, get some training pitch hours in and give spurs a game. I'm hopeful Sierralta will still come good. I see him pocketing Kane. I'm hopeful Son won't understand getting walloped by Kucka every time at right back and I'm hopeful King and Pedro can help Dennis out up top. Looking forward to it is maybe a bit of a stretch but there are such fine lines in football anything could happen, a deflection, a gk error, a dodgy VAR our way or Spurs being **** will be received with thanks.
I agree it’s likely Spurs will likely benefit from all of those things, but you forgot ‘multiple individual defensive errors’ from your list as well.
I bumped into a chap I hadn't seen for about ten years yesterday. After about two minutes of how's the family etc, we spent the next half hour catching up on why we hate Daniel Bachmann so much
Scott Duxbury and Gino Pozzo in regard to " learning lessons". I'm preparing a banner for them. I think I'll give them until mid January for our clutch of new defenders/ box to box midfielders before unfurling it.
