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25th March 2010 - What is wrong with us? Well, what a few weeks; is it really my beloved Tottenham I see before me? Whisper it quietly because I really don’t want to jinx the boys at this stage of the season, but we are finally starting to behave a little bit like one of the Sky Four sides. No I don’t mean, Harry has refused to speak to the press, or have wildly subjective pops at refs (Howard Webb excepted), or we have half a stadium of “fans” not sure which way we are kicking. What I mean is the bit that actually matters; on the pitch. Since my stab at positivity in the column after Bolton away in the cup we have gone on an unbeaten run in the cup and league and most importantly turned in some solid displays against difficult teams. The four stand outs were Wigan, Everton, Fulham and Stoke. Three of these were away and typically places where we have previously struggled and significantly where the Sky teams always seem to get results regardless of performance. Wigan was the start; after a bitty display at Bolton, we went north again in cold, wet, they won’t like it up ‘em weather and played some fairly decent football on a spud growers dream surface and most importantly bagged three points. The next was Everton; probably the form team in the prem at the moment, who have rattled Chelsea and the a*se in recent times, yet for the first 45 minutes we dismantled them and should have been out of sight. Yes an old school piece of defending from a corner let them back in and then we got a bit of good luck with the miss of the season, but again job done. Next, a trip to the Cottage, where Uncle Woy (I did like that banner in their sparsely filled end last night), has fashioned a decent team and Man U, Liverpool and Juve have all suffered and again played solidly with Wilson outstanding in the middle of the park and got the draw to get into that hat on the Sunday. Finally to the Britannia and what has to be the sort of away day we would always have dreaded; miserable weather with plenty of injuries in key positions and the sort of oppo who don’t mind dishing it out and yet how do we respond? Like bloody lions, that’s how; Eider gives it the big Viking shoulder to power in the first (what a decent bit of business he is turning out to be), we had sweet Spurs movement for the second and we even show how hard we are with BAE and Vedran having a square up leaving a clearly petrified Ricardo Fuller trying to keep the peace. So, on we march, to Wembley and towards one tough looking set of April fixtures, but we can do so in good heart, with a team playing with confidence, a defence that has looked fairly solid (by our own traditionally iffy standards), players scoring from all positions, a manager who has made some pretty shrewd tactical switches when required and fourth place rivals dropping points like a dream. Ok, we may not have many fit players and could be asking Greg and the Kent pub boys to turn out over the next few weeks, but as I say whisper it, this may just be our time. Woodo |
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Nice find Baz, as with the others you have posted this evening. Have a rep my good sir . . . . . .
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