Coffee_Johnny

More Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s childcatcher/Michael Jackson’s dark side for me…

Felt like this was the young/big lad’s best performance for us—taking everything into account. His positioning and reading of the game was first class ?

He really is, that good.

Living his best life… Imagine returning home to his wife and son after a day at the office like that. Perhaps it is a just world after all… . Lovely when good things happen to good people.

1-2 ?. To quote our glorious leader, I’m having that! Might be favourite 5 points of the season.

Not the only one ?

Howay man. FFS…

GET IN!!!

Opened my last can of Wor Beer in superstitious desperation!

Nah. We’ve got this.

Cheers Ed ?

I want Wood to come on. Odd but true.

Steady. No need to panic as yet.

Couldn’t agree more (says your Sketchers wearing, Coldplay loving, brother!)

Errr, thanks for that.

Just to savour (for however long it lasts!)

Two nil. Two fecking nil. Oh me oh my.

If they’re both ok, then I don’t see any reason why he’d want to miss the game. By all means miss a training session or two next week.

With the added ‘benefit’, if full blood versions, of two of the worst accents in the country.

I fully expect us to go there with a strategy aimed at winning the match —seems so obvious that it feels daft to say. However, some fans seemingly think we should just accept the inevitable, take the hit. Bizarrely the Spurs fans forum is also full of pessimism and with dissatisfaction with how they are playing; despite their league position. I think if we can get at them, press in the way we did first half at Old Trafford, we have a real chance today. If we are without Bruno and Joelinton, and especially if we (surely we won’t) rest Wilson, then I’ll change my expectations. My overriding feeling is a return to the nagging sense, expressed by many preseason, that we might regret not pushing for that extra attacking midfield role. Some could see that some of the big teams looked there for the taking. We couldn’t have fully foreseen our own succession of injuries, but let’s face it, it isn’t uncommon to lose key players. We couldn’t have fully foreseen Liverpool falling away as much as they currently are, or Chelsea sacking their manager and yet to fully impress, or Man Utd in full wobble, if not tilt. Add the overly defensive can’t beat the big boys patter coming from Spurs and all the talk of how West Ham or Leicester or even Everton might fare, seems a bit narrow. We are well into a season where we are clearly able to compete. Goals, even chances, against, so low. Number of chances created consistently better than I can previously recall. We’re sitting sixth between Liverpool and Man Utd, yet results haven’t been overly favourable to us. A loss and draw (against the two best teams in the country last year) should on balance have been a draw and a win. There are a couple of draws we were unlucky not to win. Whilst I wouldn’t include Man Utd away in that, on the balance of the game, we managed a draw despite key players missing. Only Man City and Arsenal are firing on all cylinders. If we’ve been lucky in the timing of our resurgence coming with others not being in their usual form, we’ve definitely been unlucky with injuries, and we could argue with some results. How many extra points might we realistically have had with a Maddison or a Diaby type within the squad? Hoping that turns today. We get the rub of the green in their lovely new stadium. If we turn up with intent, can you really see Howe doing anything else?, we can win this. An appearance in the top four, however brief, will show all with financial control how close we are. We needed an additional one (or two) in the summer hopefully they can find a way of getting them in January. In the meanwhile, we can hope for the best but prepare for the angst of not quite having enough as yet. A much preferable kind of pain than that which comes with the struggle to stay up.

Good spot, Graham ?

Captained Firmino instead of Haaland. Vice captain for Kane (..feel kinda dirty).

Ouch!

Is he likely to be playing tomorrow? Spurs fans seem certain he isn’t (and pretty happy about it).

So glad I don’t bet on football! But on the other hand imagining being 2pts above Liverpool after 11 games would have sounded deluded this time last year!