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Klassisk Scum-screw-up !

 

Eneste skåret i gleden var at Bale ikke måtte ut med skaden sin.

 

Jeg vet det er forskjellige meninger på forumet angående det å ønske spillere skadet.

 

Jeg ønsker den diveren skadet noen uker. Av åpenbare grunner.

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Det finnes faktisk Tottenhamsupportere som har noen gode poenger. Jeg limer inn det som er verdt å lese fra en Tottenhamsupporter, altså det han skriver før han begynner å fable om at ting kan endres og framtiden visstnok kan bli lilywhite.

 

Are Spurs on the brink of yet another late collapse?

 

 

Here’s how it works: A team, whether it’s England, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, or Tottenham Hotspur, has a history of bad losses. And pretty soon that history starts to take on a life of its own so that the team’s Story gets written before anything has been decided. So England is in a major international tournament in an elimination match and in the 85th minute it’s tied. Every English fan watching that game–and a good many others too–are already thinking “they’re going to lose in penalties.” They’re already speculating on how it will happen–will Lampard miss a PK? Will Ashley Cole hit the ball into row z? Will Andrea Pirlo chip Joe Hart and completely deflate the entire team? It’s not a matter of if, but when. The ending is already known, the Story has been written. All that’s in doubt is how the football gods will twist the knife. I use England as an example, but the same thing holds true for Tottenham Hotspur.

 

Let’s review the past 10 years of THFC, shall we? Actually, that isn’t enough. Start out at the beginning of the Premier League era. From 1992 to 2005, Spurs were utterly mediocre, a London laughing stock. There were a few glimmers–the Jurgen Klinnsmann years and David Ginola. But those years were mostly forgettable for us.

But since 2005, there have been five seasons that we came close to Champions League football, including this year. The first year was the year of the infamous Lasagna-gate when Tottenham squandered an excellent season in which they were in 4th for much of the year on a last day loss to West Ham. Then in 2009/10 the unthinkable happened, Spurs picked up late season wins over Arsenal (the first league win for Spurs in over a decade), Chelsea, and Man City to seal 4th. That was the exception, unfortunately. The following year Spurs were undone by poor performances against bottom half sides and the total lack of a reliable striker. (Go back and watch the loss to Blackpool at Bloomfield Road and ask yourself how a Champions League-caliber side could ever have such piss-poor strikers.) The fourth quest was the cruelest of all, as Spurs did qualify 4th after spending much of the year in 3rd, only to be overcome by Arsenal.

 

But 4th would’ve been enough. If not for an English team going to Munich and beating a German team on penalties to win a major trophy (you now see what I mean about the “how will the gods get us this time?” thing). And so for the third time in four attempts, Spurs came up short in their quest to qualify for Europe’s finest tournament. This year is quest #5. Much like last year, we’ve enjoyed an excellent run of midseason football. Now, much like last year, we have entered spring with a few poor results. And because of the way these narratives write themselves with teams like Spurs, many Spurs supporters (and neutral observers) are already predicting a late season collapse. It’s one more way for Spurs to fall apart, for the Story to further cement itself in our identity as a club. Add to that the danger that failure this year may mean the departure of one of the best talents ever to grace the club and you can appreciate the stakes of these final eight matches for Tottenham Hotspur.

 

Here’s the really frustrating part: The past seven days haven’t taught us anything new. Against Liverpool we learned that Spurs strikers are streaky and unreliable and when they’re off form, they’re really, really off-form. (Some of my fellow Spurs supporters have taken to calling our strike force “the selfish one” and “the lazy one.” Depressing part: Both names work for both strikers.) We also learned that Kyle Walker can have moments of madness at the back (not new–remember the Chelsea game earlier this year) and that sometimes Hugo Lloris makes mistakes when he comes off his line (not new–see Maribor). There was nothing about that game that was new to us. The Inter fiasco had the same lessons–when Spurs lack proper width and pace on the edge, we struggle. Also, Adebayor and Defoe as a striker partnership make Crouch and Pavlyuchenko look positively prolific in comparison. And then the Fulham match–again we learned about what happens when we lack pace on the edge. We also were reminded that we don’t really have a great creator in midfield and that when we can’t stretch play, we really struggle. And, perhaps the biggest lesson of all–we really miss Sandro.

 

None of this is news. And none of it should surprise anyone. Lennon and Sandro represent two of our most important players. When they’re out, we struggle. Shocking. (Not really.) And at any other club, none of this would be that big a deal. We’ve hit a little slump, we’re missing some key players, and, really, we were due for a loss to a bad side (we hadn’t lost to a team outside the top 7 since the Wigan defeat last fall). If this were Man United, Chelsea, or even Arsenal or Man City, there’d be some rumblings, but there’d also be an expectation that a solution would be found. But this is Tottenham and we already know what the Story is–Spurs are bottlers who blow it late in the season, who never perform up to their talent, and who are cursed to forever being third best in London. That’s the Story.

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Verthongen begynner å minne meg mer og mer om Vermaelen. Middelmådig forsvarsspill som blir overskygget av noen heldige scoringer i blant.

 

Og en gang iblant fantastiske taklinger hvor han retter opp egen feil.

 

Nå skal det også sies at Tottenham spiller på en veldig lignende måte defensivt som vi gjør. Er omtrent akkurat samme spillertype som Vermaelen og lider nok trolig også litt av spillestilen til Tottene.

 

God spiller, men som du sier: Målene hans dekker mye av de forsvarsfeilene han gjør.

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