Tottenham Hotspur Thread

[Asterix]

My father is a gooner and we watched the Fulham game. When Jens fluffed for the first goal I burst out laughing and my dad just put his head in his hands and started laughing.

I've never respected Jens anyway - he's a devious git and a shit-stirrer.

[blindswelledrat]

flasher said:

Ferg said:

NEW TOPIC

Did anyone hear on TalkSport the guy who rang in and said that Jenas is only made to look crap by having to do the work of two and in fact it's Zokora who is a waste of space...?

Yep, I think he has a point. Zokora is garbage for 8 mill. Him hugging all the Arsenal players before the derby last year was cringeworthy. One of the callers said Jenas is the worst Spurs player in their history, which is complete rubbish. Worse than Illie Dumitrescu?

Dmitrescu was pure class.
I cannot believe I am seeing that.
Agree about Zakora and Jenas though. Both are a ludicrous waste of money.
To say that Jenas does the work of two is mind boggling. I have lost count of the number of times I have screamed 'You lazy bastard' at the top of my voice as he walks disinterestedly around the pitch when Spurs are one nil down.

[blindswelledrat]

flasher said:

The bottom line is this, I am a football fan and some of best days following the Arse were when the Spuds had a half decent team (Gazza, Lineker etc) the last 10 years has seen the games become increasingly meaningless to Gooners as our main rivals have been Liverpool Manure and Chelkski. Your whole season each year seems to revolve around two games against us, even to the embarrasing point of acting like you had won the league when you got a draw.

The worst thing you can do is rip Jol to pieces as he is your best chance of success. That said spending 17m on Bent instead of a creative midlfielder and adequate defensive cover was total folly. You already had 3 excellent forwards so why buy Bent? Although now Berbatov is injured you might need him.

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Pains me to admit it but I agree with every word of that except about Arsenals rivals.
I don't think even and Arsenal fan can kid themselves that they are still in the race with the other 3.

[flasher]

I don't know what makes you say that, we finished 4th only on goal difference last season because the donkey Baptista missed a last minute pen against Portsmouth on the last day of the season and Harry Kewell hit an injury time equaliser at the same moment!

We beat Man Utd home and away drew twice with Chelsea and beat Liverpool three times in all competitions. I expect to be battling it out with Liverpool for 3rd again to be honest as the kids are still young but you never know. We haven't finished out of the top four in a decade so we have every right to consider ourselves one of the top four.

I dont regard Spurs as our rivals and haven't since Terry Venables was the manager, and neither does any other Gooner I know. However, football is cyclical and things could change.

[blindswelledrat]

flasher said:

I don't know what makes you say that, we finished 4th only on goal difference last season because the donkey Baptista missed a last minute pen against Portsmouth on the last day of the season and Harry Kewell hit an injury time equaliser at the same moment!

We beat Man Utd home and away drew twice with Chelsea and beat Liverpool three times in all competitions. I expect to be battling it out with Liverpool for 3rd again to be honest as the kids are still young but you never know. We haven't finished out of the top four in a decade so we have every right to consider ourselves one of the top four.

I dont regard Spurs as our rivals and haven't since Terry Venables was the manager, and neither does any other Gooner I know. However, football is cyclical and things could change.

Just perception I guess.
I don't know any non Arsenal fan who believes that they will finish any higher than 4th (including bookmakers and sports writers).
I might be wrong. Like any good Spurs fan I stop listening the milisecond anything positive is being said about them and listen intently to anything negative, nodding furiously and vehemently agreeing regardless of my knowledge on the subject

[flasher]

My Missus always says "you only hear what you want to hear"

Sounds familiar!

[Glassman]

at the Yiddo board meeting they said:

Mr. Jol, we are reminding you that the number one condition of keeping your job as club manager was to get us into the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE... not the Champion-SHIP!!!

Martin Jol said:

oh, I shee

[Ferg]

Meanwhile over at The Emirates Peter Hill-Wood looked at Arsene and said:

"Now Mr.Wenger, we sent you a letter the other day telling you we weren't really happy that we like to consider ourselves one of the, ahem, big four and yet we don't seem to be challenging United, Chelsea and Liverpool."

Wenger somewhat predictably said:

"Letter?
I did not see it."

[central]

Ferg said:

Meanwhile over at The Emirates Peter Hill-Wood looked at Arsene and said:

"Now Mr.Wenger, we sent you a letter the other day telling you we weren't really happy that we like to consider ourselves one of the, ahem, big four and yet we don't seem to be challenging United, Chelsea and Liverpool."

Wenger somewhat predictably said:

"Letter?
I did not see it."

[blindswelledrat]

Ferg said:

Meanwhile over at The Emirates Peter Hill-Wood looked at Arsene and said:

"Now Mr.Wenger, we sent you a letter the other day telling you we weren't really happy that we like to consider ourselves one of the, ahem, big four and yet we don't seem to be challenging United, Chelsea and Liverpool."

Wenger somewhat predictably said:

"Letter?
I did not see it. I was too busy interfereing with 3 small children and a kitten"

[flasher]

Series said:

nice to Jens up to his usual standard in the Arse goal

Ahem. Great keeping by the Spuds goalie last night.

[Glassman]

flasher said:

Series said:

nice to Jens up to his usual standard in the Arse goal

Ahem. Great keeping by the Spuds goalie last night.

Were Spurs playing last night?? It looked liked 'em.

[flasher]

Glassman said:

flasher said:

Series said:

nice to Jens up to his usual standard in the Arse goal

Ahem. Great keeping by the Spuds goalie last night.

Were Spurs playing last night?? It looked liked 'em.

Always makes me laugh when they brag about having 7 England players. No wonder England are sh1t.

[Glassman]

flasher said:

Glassman said:

flasher said:

Series said:

nice to Jens up to his usual standard in the Arse goal

Ahem. Great keeping by the Spuds goalie last night.

Were Spurs playing last night?? It looked liked 'em.

Always makes me laugh when they brag about having 7 England players. No wonder England are sh1t.

I call my missus a Yiddo sometimes. This is because, like the yiddos, she goes shopping... a week, or a month later she ends up looking at the useless items she's bought and wonders why she bought them.

[blindswelledrat]

Glassman said:

flasher said:

Glassman said:

flasher said:

Series said:

nice to Jens up to his usual standard in the Arse goal

Ahem. Great keeping by the Spuds goalie last night.

Were Spurs playing last night?? It looked liked 'em.

Always makes me laugh when they brag about having 7 England players. No wonder England are sh1t.

I call my missus a Yiddo sometimes. This is because, like the yiddos, she goes shopping... a week, or a month later she ends up looking at the useless items she's bought and wonders why she bought them.

I'll bet it is a laugh-a-minute in the Glassman household. The cold winter nights must fly by.

:|

[flasher]

Back on topic, what do you guys think of whats gone on this week? I find the whole thing unbelieveable. Jol has definiatley taken Spurs forward in the last couple of years from mid table obscurity to top 6 finishes.

To treat him like they have is beyond belief. It's also ridiculous to demand Champions league Football when only one team has broken into the top four in a decade (Everton)

I actually think Jol should have quit on principle.

[Glassman]

flasher said:

Back on topic, what do you guys think of whats gone on this week? I find the whole thing unbelieveable. Jol has definiatley taken Spurs forward in the last couple of years from mid table obscurity to top 6 finishes.

To treat him like they have is beyond belief. It's also ridiculous to demand Champions league Football when only one team has broken into the top four in a decade (Everton)

I actually think Jol should have quit on principle.

Interesting post there chap.

Despite all the banter, I've been quite impressed with THFC under MJ. As you suggest, he could have walked, but he's still there... we might be seeing another Ranieri-type situation.

[SupBre]

1 - 0

[SupBre]

Hardly a handball, stop looking for excuses. Still on the bottom of the table?

[flasher]

It wasn't handball. That said the Spuds did quite well and were a tad unlucky not to get a point.

If they dont get anything from Fulham next week it will be curtains for Jol if they lose the North London Derby............