It could only happen to tottenham.

Just a personal view as i havent been on the forum much lately.
Well, here we all were, happily chugging along in 3rd place a few weeks back, even talking of a title challenge, then capello jumps the england ship and the knock on affect was immediate, with harrys englands aspirations known to all and sundry.
But dont think i am blaming the england situation for the latest glitch in form, but no doubt harrys mind has been turned, and he isnt giving the spurs job total concentration.
The goon game was pivotal, why when we were two up didnt he match the five in midfield wenger had out there ? no harry wasnt with it that day and paid the price.
Since then the bad run has gone on, although i have always said that harrys team do have glitches, and then they pick up again and maybe it will come at the right time to retain 3rd place.
I also wonder why the centre back situation, which has been worrying for years now with injury prone players constantly coming and going from that important position, hasnt been addressed, particularly the loan signing of young caulker, wasnt that absolutely the wrong decision with king and gallas in and out, ledley looking a bit slow now and gallas aging, kaboul cant do it all on his own, now dawson is out for god knows how long.
This is not a slag off harry thread, its just a set of circumstances that could only happen to tottenham, and at a very important stage of a promising season.
I do expect the bad run to end soon, i think the team will pick up again, and we might just limp into the top 4, but i reckon it will now go to the last match of the season...shame about the disruption though.

i think galas should be told to leave at the end of the season. who would of thought he would play less games then woodgate.

Loughtonlegend wrote:i think galas should be told to leave at the end of the season. who would of thought he would play less games then woodgate.

woodgate?

ye hes ended up playing loads of games for stoke this season and we kept galas and hes hardly played

vis wrote:Well thought out & informative post Lew . . . . .

Many thanks vis.

Good post Lew. In all honesty I think Ledley should have been replaced before this season started and had we brought in a top class central defender at the start of the campaign perhaps we would not be looking over our shoulders at the Arsenal and Chelsea, as you said Ledley does look slow now, and why keep a player that cannot train week in week out. Can you imagine United or City keeping Ledley on their books if he played for either of them. I must say that I am not a big fan of Dawson, never have been, a bit to panicky and erratic imo. We need a solid central defender with a cool head, another Mike England.