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I like watching Spurs this season, they're probably the most entertaining team to watch, I'd say, and they have a chance to do very well, but I was just looking at the list of teams they have beaten this season: Wigan Sunderland Portsmouth Burnley Birmingham West Ham Hull Liverpool and it doesn't really look that impressive.

I think you're right, he probably gets treated harshly, but if he does it is largely because he's shown himself so willing to use his elbows. I like him, he's a very good player, but it's pretty hard to argue against the elbow thing when the evidence is there for all to see.

Lots of good ideas here, but for me, no end of fiddling with competitions, domestic or European, is going to change things measurably. Two things we need - salary cap, transfer limits. And I say that as a supporter of a club with a rich, benevolent owner. It is ruining football to the point at which it just becomes a rich man's plaything, about as much of a "sport" as Formula One. Provincial, mildly successful businessmen we scorned in the past - Ellis, Swales, Edwards (Louis), the one Cloughie used to argue with at Derby, that lot - might have been small time in their thinking, but at least back then we had a league where clubs like Nottingham Forest could come from nowhere and win the league. For all the new money in the game these days, we may have a shiny, spangly, well marketed competition, but unless you support one of four clubs, you're largely insignificant.

Yeh you're right. It's just we should have beaten Villa, United, and Everton today but the chances we keep missing is a joke. That's football i guess. I was thinking the same earlier. I didn't see today's game, but you should have beaten us, and you had all the possession against Man United, I thought, and looked the more composed team Not being confrontational, and this is a broad brush strokes claim, but that's a flaw I've seen in Spurs sides for decades - good football, plenty of the ball, use it well, but don't press the advantage. Still, Redknapp has you playing good football at the moment. Huddlestone impresses me a lot.

In fairness, he has produced pretty much every game this season, and even on occasions when he isn't at his best, his work rate is nothing short of phenomenal. I thought he was a good player when we had him on loan, still thought he was when he was with you, and still do now he's back with us. Admittedly I didn't (obviously) see as much of him when he was with Newcastle as you lot did, but seeing the way he is playing now, I was probably right to feel that way. I don't really think it is down to playing in a better team - when he was with us on loan he was in a shit team with shit players, don't forget. I can't help but feel most of the reason he didn't produce with you was down to shit coaching. He's being coached by John Robertson now - another slow, unglamorous player who turned out to be one of the best wingers in our league for years. I don't think Milner crosses anything like as well as Robertson did as a player, but he's certainly getting something out of our coaching. Mind you, I've also heard our training sessions consist of Steve Walford doing most of the coaching, John Robertson standing on the touchline chain smoking and occasionally shouting stuff, and MON locked away in his office reading true crime books, so the above is probably nonsense. I'd like to see him in the WC squad, but if we have one player who really deserves to go to South Africa above all others, it is prob Stephen Warnock who has been absolutely superb. If Bridge gets the nod ahead of him, I'll be most disappointed.

Has the Liverpool game genuinely not been on yet? I can't believe they're on after Bolton v the Dogheads.

Ha ha, this is making me chuckle alright. Fuck you Benitez, you fat cunt.

In fairness, O'Neill only played him through the middle for the first time four days ago.

^^^ and has been our best player this season. He's looked super in central midfield the last couple of games. Watch his pass for Dunne's goal and his lob for his own goal on MOTD tonight.

Beye is an important contributor to a pretty strong defensive squad, and is probably realising he won't play anything like every game unless he does exceptionally well. He did well at Portsmouth on Tuesday by all account, but was playing because Warnock was ill, and Luke Young got shunted to LB to cover (Bouma not back, Shorey on loan). As I said, though, defensively we've got an awful lot of options, so nobody is going to be an automatic first choice, with the possible exception of Warnock at the moment (who has been superb all season, as it happens), because of the lack of cover at LB.

Not only did he score, he was absolutely superb from start to finish. Our best player by far this season

Chelsea are vile in every way. Horrible, arriviste, classless band of weasels.

Did very well today, I thought. Milner played through the middle and Young and Downing wide, but they switched wings quite a lot. Milner was MotM by a country mile, though. Finally, today and against Portsmouth, we've found some form and actually played some really nice football, for a change.

Feel so sorry for him. He got a fantastic reception (well, the reverse of a reception) from our lot as he went off today. You could see the guy was in tears as he realised what had happened. Felt really bad for him.

Watch Milner's goal on MOTD today. Funniest thing I have seen for ages. Hull keeper comes tearing out of his goal to head it into touch. Steve Sidwell, who is a substitute, just so happens to be warming up there and catches it. He throws the ball to Agbonlahor, Agbonlahor takes the quick throw to Milner who superbly lobs the keeper as he is racing back. Incidentally, Milner was absolutely top notch today, really superb.

She formed an excellent working relationship with Geoff Horsfield by all accounts.

I miss Karren. She helped give us such utter, utter entertainment from that shitty club for years. For DiaryGate alone, I will always love her.

KD. Once again, see above post which fully explains my hypocrisy re the league cup. I'm saying I am hypocritical about it (as are all clubs when they win it), you're saying I was hypocritical about it. Im struggling to see the argument in there.

KD - see Niel's post above. If we do win it this season, I wont be giving it large on here, though. I'll be quite honest and point out that it is the least the club could do for the absolutely rotten, turgid football we've had to sit through since about February of last year, rather than some springboard to world domination.

Who?

Questions. 1. Have you got the receipt? 2. We don't accept returns on goods beyond 28 days. We may, however, be able to issue you with a credit note, with the strict proviso that you use it yo buy Steve Sidwell. He'd be an improvement would Sidwell. Is he turning out to be a one season wonder like Shorey? Shorey's a much better player than Sidwell. I slated him at first, but he put in some really impressive performances at the end of last season and did very well when he played in our UEFA games. Sidwell is gash. He's the most anonymous footballer i have ever seen. At least Shorey can cross a ball very well and is comfortable on the ball. Sidwell needs to stare at a photocopy of a ball for 30 minutes immediately prior to a match just in case he forgets what it is.

And Barry's face, the fat cunt. Assuming he's not on one of his 2 month breaks and paying absolutely no attention to proceedings.

Bridge was terrific for a season or two, but then again so was Steve Sidwell, and I've watched Sidwell for two seasons now, and anything he did in the past fades into significance when placed alongside his utter, utter execrable shiteness now. In fact, Bridge and Sidwell are both good examples of what happens when you take the money and go and make yourself comfy on Chelsea's bench for a year or two. Daniel Sturridge is doing the same thing right now.

14 years since we won one, too.

Questions. 1. Have you got the receipt? 2. We don't accept returns on goods beyond 28 days. We may, however, be able to issue you with a credit note, with the strict proviso that you use it yo buy Steve Sidwell.