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I thought it was a fairly even game. We were a bit lucky to nick it at the end, but that makes up for the bad luck we've had previously with last minute equalisers.

 

Bad miss by Owen. He's got no left foot at all. If you're paying 80k a week for a specialist poacher, you have to be able to rely on him to put those away.

 

Bassong looks very assured for a young centre back. He's not afraid to make decisions and has a good turn of speed that can snuff out many goal threats.

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just got back, we were poor for most part in the second half but who gives a bollocks  :celb:

 

Given - dealt with everything thrown at him, cool as you like   8

Beye - best performance of the season from him, great defensively   8.5

Coloccini - decent, played it out of defence well   7

Bassong - cant give him owt else, flawless   10

Enrique - struggled first 10 minutes and his touch can be poor but wrapped Lennon up the ugly way   8

Jonas - defended and scrapped well, needs to get forward a lot more   7.5

Butt - game bypassed him for the most part, but did well on the ball    7

Guthrie - like him a lot but wasteful today, battled hard as usual    6.5

N'zogbia - constant threat, on any other day he'd be motm, f*** all the idiots who played him LB    9

Owen - static, not involved much, wasted little in possession though   6

Shola - christ he was shitter than normal, poor 30 mins   4

Viduka - not fit, static, lack poise, get the ball to him and he's still dangerous though    6.5

Duff - my word, fair play to him   7

 

 

 

 

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It was a very even game for the most part and the lack of invention really highlighted how much we need Martins. Could have gone either way, but I think we deserved it based on our second half posession and will to win. Owen should have scored earlier too but snatched at with his left.

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I love Redknapp when he's annoyed. It always cheers me up to see that clip of him on Youtube get the ball kicked at him by a Southampton reserve player.

 

haha me too, makes him twitch like crazy

 

Try and count how many times he blinks after the ball hits him. It's impossible :lol:

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Just got back, absolutely buzzing! When was the last time we got a last minute winner?!

 

Bassong my MOTM, Taylor must be shitting himself.

 

Merry fucking Christmas!!!

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It always amazes me how much of a joke we're perceived to be by other clubs. I know that we're far from being world beaters and we're almost always underachieving or in some sort of controversial mess, but we've got some class players at this club. Spurs haven't beat us at SJP in the league for years now and yet they talk as if we're Tranmere or something.

 

This isn't exclusive to the Spuds either. I always try to go into games against any opponent with an unclouded view, but it's almost as if we're universally seen as a nothing club that's good for 3 points.

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It always amazes me how much of a joke we're perceived to be by other clubs. I know that we're far from being world beaters and we're almost always underachieving or in some sort of controversial mess, but we've got some class players at this club. Spurs haven't beat us at SJP in the league for years now and yet they talk as if we're Tranmere or something.

 

This isn't exclusive to the Spuds either. I always try to go into games against any opponent with an unclouded view, but it's almost as if we're universally seen as a nothing club that's good for 3 points.

 

A lot of fans just like to see us down and talk shit about us because of how good we were in the past, that's Football fans for you I suppose.

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As good as the result is, can you imagine what it would be like right now if Campbell got a better look at that ball?

 

Works both ways, can you imagine the reaction being half as bad on here had someone headed that Stoke freekick away in the last minute? I stopped absolutely dead when that happened though, the commentary on my stream was about 2 seconds ahead of the picture and it's fair to say i nearly shit myself. :laugh:

 

Fuck it, we'll no doubt pay for that later on in the season so enjoy it while we can. :snod:

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