Posted on Wednesday, 26th September 2012 by Harry Hotspur
Good morning.
The Capital One Cup then. The boss’ selection will be interesting given the fact that Manchester United are lying in wait to pounce Saturday teatime. That said, it is Carlisle. Our opponents are currently 10th in the NPower League 1. To perhaps give you a reference point Orient are 14th in the same division.
The Yanited vs Toon game is the one on the telly here in the UK but it’s difficult to believe our game will be featured anywhere other than on the wireless [clicky].
Last night’s games were a mixed bag. Cheatski battered Wolves 6-0, Swansea beat Crawley Town 2-3, Southampton kept the train a rollin’ with a 2-0 at home to Sheffield Wednesday. There were two comedy results of course. Manchester City the current Premier League Champions were beaten at home by European giants Aston Villa. What made my night was West Ham getting walloped by Wigan 1-4. This was gold; Fat Sam’s programme notes told the Primark Posse he felt this was cup they could win.
I won’t bother you with a chalkboard, but I do think this game will see some significant changes. Given it’s Carlisle I would be happy enough to unleash the likes of Cudicini, Dawson, Jenas, Livermor and Huddlestone. I want us to field decent teams in all competitions, but this may well be a mud, blood and guts affair. So at this level we just need everyone we need for the weekend to come home with all their limbs attached.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:38 am
First
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jonjohn Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:20 am
First twat
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MaddySpurs Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Ha ha – best response to “first” I’ve ever read
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:40 am
Beating Chelsea in the final a few years ago was a moment I’ll never forget. Capital One? Do the winners get a reduced interest rate on their card?
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philmccrackin Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:46 am
F**KING A.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:41 am
you mellowing Harry? Jen*s got the full 5 letter treatment.
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Harry Hotspur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Oh dear. What was I thinking?!
I may need exorcising.
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kenny Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
get down the gym then.
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philmccrackin Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:44 am
YOU MEAN *****.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:47 am
Livermore is injured. Hernia op. 3 weeks away from fitness.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Lloris, Smith, Caulker, Dawson, Townsend, Carroll, THudd, Mason, Sigurdsson, Falque, Dempsey 4-2-3-1. Have a strong bench if needed
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Yid Vicious Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Wouldn’t be surprised to see this at all but I think Jenas will be picked ahead of Carroll as you Thomas is a bit lightweight. It’s between Gomes and Cudicini between the sticks though, I hear. I’d also like to see Townsend play on the left wing, I know we’re short of left backs but I’d stick Walker there, get him practicing a bit of defence, he’ll get torn apart at Old Trafford playing like he has so far.
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Dechead Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:02 am
id rather Townsend on the wing aswell myself to inject a bit of pace, just screwed having both LB’s injured
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Anyone know when Parker is expected back?
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BrizzleSpur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
November.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:54 am
If you don’t like BBC London’s audio visual description of two blokes squinting at the telly, we’re actually the main commentary on 5 Live this evening…
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mystic arnold Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:59 am
I prefere radio London s commentory at least its biased towards spurs for a change
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Harry Hotspur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:09 am
And when the game goes off the boil, they tend to discuss stuff like how weak their tea is …which I quite like.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Expect 5-Live to run a bunch of ‘AVB under pressure’ cobblers. Should the mighty border-botherers get a goal, Alan Green might implode in a masturbatory frenzy.
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Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Doesn’t that defy the laws of physics? Still it would be an interesting experiment.
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yidinjapan Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Not if it’s CERN
September 26th, 2012 at 10:13 am
I need visuals. Could someone stream some women pushing player bobbleheads around on a plotting table? http://www.saak.nl/battlefield%20tour/2008%20england/battle%20of%20britain/battle%20of%20britain%20%2817%29.jpg
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Harry Hotspur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Genius.
I may have to get the old crayons out for a ‘Highlights Reenactment’ blog
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
…’And the reserves?’
‘They’re all up’
‘That’s what I just told the PM’
Genius.
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Steveo1987 Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Fantastic…Bales out into a greenhouse and young boy offers a cigarette..from a case mind you…thanks awfully..
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 8:10 am
AVBs team talk at the weekend should be punctuated with shouting ‘Dag-a-dag-a-dag-a-dag-a-a’ at the younger players.
September 26th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Apparently Lloris has been left at the Lane for this one.
I can only assume it’s for the reason in this article and that AVB is worried that we’ll get beat up by the league one club.
That said we’ve got enough quality in the squad to win this easily and still put out our first choice team out on Saturday.
My only worry is if Vert plays. Shouldn’t we wrap him up in cotton wool before going to Manchester?
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September 26th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Not sure Cudicini needs much game time. Maybe it’s rude but Lloris may get a bit of practice at defending himself from oafs attacking the ball hoofed into the mixer?
Left back a huge problem tonight as I can’t see Jan or Bale playing. Naughton may be fit.
Ade could maybe do with a 20 min run-out if fit
Sigi needs to find some form and a goal or two would be a confidence boost.
Lloris
Smith
caulker
Dawson
naughton
J***s
Hudd
Falque
Townsend
Sigi
mason
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Yid Vicious Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Don’t think Naughton made the preliminary squad so is still injured.
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Tel Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Isn’t Mason on loan?
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Yid Vicious Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Nope, he was on the bench against QPR and played (briefly) against Lazio.
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September 26th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Id love to see a 100m Comb over event. Are players sacked for being bald what happened to all the baldies.
That Brunton park use to rock when Carlisle were in the old 1st div.
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philmccrackin Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:49 am
A Ralph Coates Trophy.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Hmmmmm, comb-over 11. There’s a challenge!
Stepney possibly in goal… Not so much a comb-over as an errant brillo pad.
Coates, Bobby Charlton, Jack Charlton, Gilly, Francis Lee, John Dempsey, David Armstrong, Gervinho…
Any others?
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Billy Legit Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Lombardo.
Erm…..thats it.
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LosLorenzo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Zizou
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Billy Legit Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Vialli.
Erm……that’s it.
LosLorenzo Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 6:50 am
McAllister. We need a sub.
September 26th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Lloris
Smith , gallas , dawson ,Huddleston
Townsend, Jenas , Carroll, Falque
Mason , Gylfi .
Gallas is just in the line up in hope he is not in the starting for UTD game on the weekend and i think Naughton is still out injured so i threw hudd in rigth back. Lloris needs game time to stay fit and focused and we need a strong keeper for this match
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Thud at LB is an insane notion!
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Andy Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Dont be rude everyone has their opinion, just be thankfull he is not the manager.
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reynir Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:54 am
Why do i bother…
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Aw, don’t be sore!
LosLorenzo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Have to agree with LLL, I think I would make a better choice at LB than Thudd.
Don’t take it personally. If you’re going to last around here, you need to have thick skin.
Or you can just be thick, if I think about it. Plenty on here who get by that way, too
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BrizzleSpur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Huddlestone at LB. It’s so crazy it could be genius!
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September 26th, 2012 at 10:48 am
We need to rest players for united….
Carlisle are hardly as good as Lazio and therefore we should go with youngsters and squad players and remember we have about 7 guys out injured
Lloris
Smith Caulker Dawson Stewart
Carroll Hudd
Townsend Sigs Falque
Coulibaly/Mason
PUT DEFOE, BALE AND DEMPSEY ON THE BENCH IF WE ARE STRUGGLING
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Gibbo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Jackie Stewart wrong sport I think?
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September 26th, 2012 at 10:52 am
John Bond was a good egg.God rest his soul.
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September 26th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Lloris
Smith Caulker Daws Townsend
Falque Carrol Thud Sig
Mason
Dempsey
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mattspurs Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
think that’ll be it
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September 26th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Were going to win the CoC.
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Yid Vicious Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Capital One Cup Knockouts
COCK outs for short.
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Had to laugh at the reports of Mancini crying over bust-ups with fellow managers (cracks beginning to show, perhaps?).
“When they go to [Old] Trafford, they say nothing.”
Yes, that’s because there’s respect throughout the game for the incumbent manager there, you muppet. Respect earned from a lifetime of outstanding achievement as opposed to a couple of years of trophy-buying. Tosser.
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Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Yes, that’s true. Money alone can’t buy what Ferguson has achieved.
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LosLorenzo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Quite right. A nose like that requires many years of dedicated scotch drinking.
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Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
You’ve got me anxiously looking in the mirror now.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Im a big fan of Ferguson.He is one of the best managers ever.
Mismanaged though when he had the top four strikers in the league.Allowed Ronaldo to control everything.
Tevez reduced to the bench,caused Berbatov to lose interest (doesnt take much) and recreated Rooney as a winger.Won the league but lost the plot.
Was brilliant last season when he brainwashed those kids that they were better than they are.Kicked it off with destroying a not awake yet City in the Community cup and kept United in there till the end.Clever bastard that Fergie.
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I’ve heard some promising feedback about Falque, along the lines of “astonishing ability”. Now we will get to find out for ourselves.
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
But I like the chalkboard
No disrespect to the opposition but we should crush them even with J**** on board.
It’ll be good to see Falque and Townsend start and i’d like to see Hugo start this one as I don’t see the point of playing Cudicini.
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
I looked at my slice of toast this morning and I swear I could see J***s, It’s an omen I tell you!
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BrizzleSpur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
J**** would put me off my breakfast!
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Steveo1987 Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Young man.. this is funny!!!
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
its not on 5 live commentary is mancs v newcs
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northern spur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
I’m sure I heard 5Live advertising our game as the live radio commentary. Maybe Yanited are on 5Live extra.
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northern spur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
just heard it again, so must be true.
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kojac Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
it says it on the website,maybe he mancs are on talkyspot,no they are on extra,surprising really
September 26th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
I dont know why we cant use Harry Redknapp to manage this one.It is kind of retro and we could have all those retro players playing.The feeling could be like an afternoon at Petticoat Lane market.
He could just say ”ave a go’ and they probably would. Its not the Europa so its not like they know he doesnt give a shit and it is on the coast I think amd that should make him feel at home (Dorset,Bournemouth,Brighton,Southampton,Portsmouth stopping at all stations to Fenchurch street)
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munso Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Tell you what, that isn’t as stupid as it first sounded!
If your going to play your second/third string players, why not let the assistant manager have a go in the hot seat?
Let’s see what Steffan is made of. For me he has all the qualities to make a fine manager one day, if only he would lose the Ron Hill tracky bottoms.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
many a true word is said in guest
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
That’s so funny.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Astro are you taking the piss out of me??? Who you taking the piss out of??? Me??????????
You are????
oh.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
No, it is genuinely funny. Not ‘I let out a little bit of wee’ funny but very funny, loved the bit about all stations etc.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Astro Im planning a book tour to all those stations….wait a minuted I meant Im booking a tour to all those stations….
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September 26th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
where we will be playing….
http://www.oldukphotos.com/graphics/England%20Photos/Cumbria,%20Carlisle,%20Market%20Place.jpg
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Billy Legit Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Horse crap on the pitch? (no, not J****/Penis).
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September 26th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
I hadn’t really associated HR with “laziness”, but the more I read from some Spurs players after his sacking, the more I am re-assessing his performance as manager.
Irrespective of his latter period of “England come and get me…” it seems he had no plans for some of the youngsters on our books.
If you send a player out on loan you have to monitor the performances and realise that it’s not solely about cutting the wage budget.
Ryan Mason. Reading between the lines of his recent press statement, he seemed disillusioned under Redknapp. On loan at 20 – 21 but not given a chance on his return.
Surely it’s about resource management. You scout a kid; bring him on to academy level (at high expense); and then send him out for a period of competitive league football.
The player is an asset. He is worth money. The higher level of capability the more valuable he is.
What I cannot understand is Tottenham’s poor record of bringing kids through to first team regularity.
It has to be the man-management skills of the management team. And the buck stops with whomever is in charge over a two to three year period.
I hope and share Ryan’s optimism under AVB – that he will get a proper chance.He’s probably speaking for a few more of our youth.
Sherwood, I think, has a good concept of the loan and progression system – as he displayed with not recommending Kane for another season in the Championship.
We shouldn’t let Sherwood leave for Blackburn. He seems to have a good working relationship with the youngsters and I hope he has the confidence of AVB.
In turn, I’d like to see AVB have confidence in the staff below him.
Spurs shouldn’t be a club merely putting kids through a system and then selling them on without a proper opportunity to perform. And selling them for a pittance at that.
What HR did in last year’s Europa was wrong. Introducing a couple of youngsters to the first team system is not a one-off. It’s a two way commitment.
HR let those kids down. He was lazy and non-focussed.
Levy should have had a word earlier than he did.
Let’s see what happens with the kids under AVB. I’m hopeful…
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
When you think about it not many of our youth players have been that much cop when we did bring them in from the cold.
Our assessments have rarely been good on finding quality early.
The process is good or not good but the base quality has not been impressive.
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Bruxie Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
We tend to play too many youngsters all at once.
Integrating them gradually…like Cualker has got to be the answer.
Surround them with confidence building team mates and you’ll get a different story.
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UnkleKev Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Again, this is why Ferguson is such a great manager. He gives his youngsters every chance to prove their worth. Darren Gibson was a semi-regular for two years before Ferguson finally pulled the plug. Likewise it took Jonny Evans that long to demonstrate what he is capable of.
Contrast that with a lot of posters here who are prepared to write off our youngsters after barely ten minutes of action.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
i havent seen to many youth games lately to know who is really good or not.But from what Ive seem a lot have been overrated.Of course part of it is development but part of it is an inherent quality.
Maybe Caulker has the capability but I havent seen too many that have come out of our ranks (ever) that have been top drawer
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Bruxie Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Come off it Ronnie.
Are we the only club with a bad youth production set-up?
Other teams frequently blood youth in more experienced teams.
We throw four or five in at the same time.
Bad news.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Bruxie I really dont know….have many of the players that came up through our academy done anything after leaving us?
essexian76 Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Players like Kane and Caulker have had to develop their game elsewhere as fans like ours don’t give them a fighting chance. Livermore for example is already Jenas Mk2, without barely having a full season behind him. If our ultimate aim is to finish top 4, then the League Cup and the EL cannot be considered as priority, as they offer no kudos or financial gain
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
More to it than that though I think. I don’t think it’s just a case of successive managers thinking, ‘can’t give the young lad a chance, the fans here don’t like that’… It is probably a mixture or poor scouting, poor training, poor development policy and successive managers not really using the youth players in an efficient way. And maybe the fans too, but I couldn’t see that being the number one factor.
A mate of mine’s son just got released from the Spurs academy after a few years on the books (now at a Championship club academy instead). It is very cut-throat. Anyway, the training ideas and methods and general vision has changed a lot in the past couple of years, whether that improves our prospects or not we shall have to wait and see.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
When someone says ‘Oh he is young’ I immediately think is is shit and will never be good.
Young Players = Shit
Great players who happen to be young are always great from the off.
Only Jermaine Jenas has a chance to redeem himself over 40
This is all of course a joke but really you can see the quality of players who ‘have it’ the rest are just worker ants who might get a bit better or a bit worse with coaching.
A good scout will surely find the pearls. But we are in the retail business not the wholesale or manufacturing business
LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Bottom line is also that we aren’t especially bad, most PL clubs are made up of imports from other countries and other academies.
The reason is because we don’t have the system in place to properly develop kids. On the continent, it’s not uncommon for an academy to be the only place a kid will go for both their education and football. This is really important as it gets them playing a few hours of football every single day – they will go to maths class, have an hour of football, go to science etc etc. Research proves that to become an expert at something you need to practice 3 hours a day for 10 years – equalling 10,000 hours practice total. At Spurs and most English academies, they see the kids for about 5 hours a week outside school hours and they play a game on Sunday morning. Is it any wonder that England in general is so far behind most other countries in terms of youth development?
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I can see harry Redknapp running that organization.
‘Ok cheif you get a saturday morning at Petticoat lane,sell a little gear then a night of driving a taxi around kings cross and then you can start’
UnkleKev Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I think that, in much the same way as we loan players out to other clubs, we should be able to loan managers too. Sherwood to Blackburn on loan seems a good idea to me. Sherwood to Blackburn on a permanent basis is most definitely a no-no however.
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Bruxie Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Do I not like that..?
Great idea.
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Harry Hotspur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Let’s play Sherwood tonight. See how he likes it!
Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Sherwood likes this cup – Chelsea semi-final at WHL, he was immense.
Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
See link below, Sherwood saw through the previous system for what it was.
http://windycoys.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tim-sherwood-on-our-use-of-loan-system.html
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September 26th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
This is the perfect game for Loris the French goalkeeper to play in.
Why?
Because we should win whatever happens so he will get a free sniff at the physical side of the English game with no real risk of us losing as a result.
He is however the only player 3MP could call a tall skinny git so I hope we have had him on the kebabs all week though.
But in general if the big signing French national keeper cannot play against Carlisle United then what gives?
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Bruxie Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Win whatever happens…
Are you new to this following Spurs mularky?
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September 26th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
On a completely unrelated topic, why the hell does the BBC have the boat race as one of its five premier sporting events and not the Ryder Cup? Ten minutes of toffee-nosed twats on the Thames versus three days of the most exciting sport in the world and the twats win out. It’s madness.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
something about oars and cox’s
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Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
I assume Murdoch has that one nailed?
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Hot_Spur Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
The Ryder cup maybe “the most exciting sport in the World” to you, but not to the majority of the population. The BBC base their transmissions on projected viewing figures, I would bet that more people are interested in watching the boat race than the Ryder cup.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
The Cambridge Crew have just got into the water. One stroke penalty,they will take the drop from Putney
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mynameissiggy Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Ronnie you feckin legend!
Billy Legit Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Golf and Rowing- both sh*te.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Yes together.
But seperate its better
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Billy Legit Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Still sh*te.
September 26th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Anyone seen Dagenham Dave?
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Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Yes, with two men in white coats. He was snarling a bit.
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September 26th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
I fear Carlisle based on number we have injured and need to rest Bale and Defoe, perhaps Lennon.
We are thin. Dempsey, dbele and Siggy all need to play.
Odds are one upset in the brace of games tonight. Must not be us. Bale and Midget Gem should be on the bench, Ready to pull it out.
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CincinnatiYid Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Dembele you dumbbell
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
That’s not very nice. What’s he done to you?
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I, for one, would not like to see the midget gem pull it out.
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cincinnatiyid Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Don’t think you are in any danger. . .
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
Falque… Do we talk about him because he’s good or because we think he should be good? Would be interesting to find out.
Caulker is great example to all of them, Coulibaly, Ceballos, Mason, Lancaster, Kane, Caroll – It would be great to see one more break through this year. Definitely agree though that the way not to do it is throw them all in at the same time.
Confident with Sherwood involved that it will be done ‘better’ this time round. He was quietly critical of the previous regime’s treatment of his proteges.
http://windycoys.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tim-sherwood-on-our-use-of-loan-system.html
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Bruce Castle Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Like
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calebray Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
double like
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
It would nice to give Jack Barthram and Jonathgan Obika have a run out tonight, with Dawson and “Corker” in the Center Back positions.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Daws is definitely getting the gee-up from Herrr Freund in readiness for tonight.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/fa-league-cups/michael-dawson-to-get-first-tottenham-start-since-spurning-qpr-8175962.html
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Its all even at Carlisle with three hours to go. 0-0
None of the known players are playing though it seems we are playing a 0-0-0. Jermaine Jenas is on the bench staring into space while Sandro has taken a piece out of the goalpost.Gareth Bale has been given a yellow card for diving but there was nobody else within 200 miles.
Most of the fans are barely at Coventry.
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cincinnatiyid Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
And yet chanting from the stands–AVB out! AVB out! Arry come home, Arry come home. . . .
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
No No No we are all with him BUT NOW IN SHEFFIELD going north
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Based on his jumping ability shown in the caption contest, I think this is the perfect oportunity to unleash our madcap midfield muscle Herr Fruend on the unsuspecting side from the 3rd division…
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
so carlisle around the wireless toasting crumpets on the fire,good times
i’d play Lloris at old trafford personally,we need someone mobile at utd if you ask me,
i was looking at who had the rights to capital one games earlier to see if there was a chance of a stream and it said the BBC does not have one live football game this season,pretty sad really seeing as it is supposed to represent the whole nation with its bundles of tax,couldn’t they even grab a ropa dopa game,it says BT have nicked ESPN prem games from next season too
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September 26th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
If we lose i ain’t going to school tomorrow.
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September 26th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Anyone know where we can watch it? Does not seem to be on the usual places. Always highlights, but much rather watch the whole game.
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I hope there are some highlights at least.
Cant be any worse then Stevenage and Watford games last year..Can IT??????
We barely got the ball over the half way line…..
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AntTHFC Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Pretty sure the Beeb have the highlights, though that may just be the goals. 11:15 if no-one can find it live
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Steveo1987 Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
If it’s just the goals I wont stay up late..
September 26th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
crikey he’s rolling out the vertman,hope he survives for utd,mason at right back,siggy,falque,thud,townsend,dempsey,caulker, dawson,cuddles,can’t remember one
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Left Teste Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Smith!
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kojac Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
yeah smith at rb then,this mason is an attacking type isn’t he?
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Everyone says it’s a good pitch so hopefully there won’t be too much roly-poly rough and tumble stuff going on…
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kojac Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
they like the pitch the radio london team,watering it
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September 26th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Subs: Gomes; Lennon; Obika; Sandro; Walker; Caroll.
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kojac Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
u beat me to it
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September 26th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
bench gomes,walker,sandro,carroll,lennon,defoe,obika
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September 26th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Anyone found a stream yet?
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September 26th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
I know this makes me a spoiled brat, but the lack of any kind of tv coverage absolutely does my head in.
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Any audio feeds that anyone can pass along?????
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emspurs Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_london
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Xildnparadise Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Cheers good one.Thanks!
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emspurs Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Mind you it’s fairly nonsense commentary. Whoever’s doing colour is tiresome and generally annoying.
Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
everytime they say GOAL it sounds really good
September 26th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
No forwards unless you count Dempsey. We are taking the Spain route.
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
On East Midlands News tonight they were talking about Jenas (sorry about the hieroglyphics thing) coming home to Nottingham Forest!
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Moany commentators don’t sound that happy that we scored.
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PeterTheStoreyTeller Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
You would think it was our best side the way they are slating our play.
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Nil – Two and they are still complaining!
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PeterTheStoreyTeller Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Nice to see Daws play well.
emspurs Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
They’re even trying to get shots in as we go 2-0 up. Do they write for the sun in between radio gigs?
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
I actually thought the BBC guy had money on Carlisle the way they reacted to our first goal.
They got so fed up when we scored a second and they wouldn’t be able to talk about ‘AVB being under pressure’ that they buggered off to the Liverpool game.
Shocking.
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Vertonghen scored….yes and also Sahin for Liverpool
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Its FalKAY for the second half
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September 26th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Vertonghen sounds like its just him against Carlisle.(the others must still be at the cafe on the M1)
TOWNSEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ronnie Wolman Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
I say YES to the Youth Program.
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
the play by play fellows are most surely not avb fans
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Let’s have Jan off now please…
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
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kojac Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
yeah,he is off now right,2-0,these guys want free flowing footy like we had with luka,vdv and ade on the pitch
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LLL Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
He feels sorry for AVB in a way because he is following a manager who ‘played such wonderful football’
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Would be nice if we could just stroll through to the end of the game for a nice, comfortable win.
What are the chances ?
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cincinnatiyid Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Let’s get another goal if you please.
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Cisse came on for Newcastle at United at =61 minutes and scored in the 62nd
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
5-1 for the scum
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
siggy! well done.
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
All the papers will have to print good news about ABV, they will be sad.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Don’t you believe it. BBC report still manages to get in a swipe, saying Carlisle could have equalised before we got the second.
If they can’t dig us out about the football, they’ll turn on something else. Tomorrow’s headlines will all be about ‘crisis talks with Lloris loom as French No.1 doesn’t even make the bench’.
The Mail and their neanderthals are already chuntering.
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
got the job done,vert with his first goal isn’t it and siggy getting a bit of goal confidence now lets go and show old fergie we mean business this year
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PeterTheStoreyTeller Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
no one seems interested in the poll up there,it’s pretty funny and important to know
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Mmmmn. Tough call…
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September 26th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
“not comfortable tonight, but Spurs are in the hat for the next round”………….
This is just one of the quotes from those tw*ts on MurdochSportsNews.
The twitchy propagandists really are a bunch of bitter twisted bastards!
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david Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Next round draw should be made shortly. Who do we want ?
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david Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Away to Norwich.
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Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
That was amazing… Great guess. What’s the lottery numbers for the weekend?
david Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Evening Astro, I have to confess, I was reporting the draw not predicting who we would get.
Anyway, I reckon we can get a result at Delia’s deli.
Astromesmo Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
It’s you and your retroactive ‘You ain’t seen me’ clock again! I’m sure you’ve invented time travel.
I think the ‘unbeaten in 6 games’ Spurs might give them a run.
Boy Charioteer Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Can’t they stick the f*****g “sports” reporters in the nick along with the rest of the Murdochian phone hacking trash?
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
A few people mentioned it earlier but the commentary by tango man & his sidekick on Radio 5 was pretty ridiculous. I’ve never heard a radio commentator sound so deflated in a supposedly ‘neutral’ game.
They got so annoyed when we got the second they almost said ‘This is pointless waiting for Spurs to get knocked out, so we’re going to the Hawthorns to hopefully kick Brendan Rodgers’.
When you apply for a job in the British media do you have to take some kind of test to prove how much of a twat you can be?
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MysteriousStranger Reply:
September 26th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Not that I expected anything less from Richard Littlejohn, but his “iPhone” commentary yesterday took the cake.
If such a test did exist, he must have set the benchmark.
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September 26th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
What about the head honcho himself?
The law really does apply equally to everyone in this country doesn’t it!………..anyway, i’m off to give some copper some nasty verbals and get away with it. Ta ta!
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September 26th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
1 defeat so far. crisis.
wow didnt liverpool do well, the way its portrayed on tv their youngsters are the new busby babes.
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September 26th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
lets do the mancs 11 +chris hoy and cluttersyrup buck BIOYM+H+CC GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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September 27th, 2012 at 12:00 am
I will be be in Londinistan for the AV game but have no idea how or if I can get tickets any ideas or offers or do I have to climb along the wall at Lesney toy factory drop down on the hotdog stall like I used to for sold out cup games
coys
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Billy Legit Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 1:13 am
Your ‘type’ is not welcome in the People’s Republic of London
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melcyid Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 3:09 am
As an indigenous native minority I am coming back to pick up my Reparation
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melcyid Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 3:43 am
I’ve sent him to coventry,he won’t be darkening my doors again ,he’s a bad lot,can do without him round here, bloody Spiv
melcyid Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 3:36 am
I’ll ave you know I’ve come from the salt of the earth stock
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melcyid Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 3:38 am
although I cant stand my uncle arry the trout.
david Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 7:43 am
Go on the Spurs site, you may get tickets offered by season ticket holders who cannot attend.
I clicked on the site a couple of weeks ago and there were 2 whole blocks of seats for sale in the Lower Park Lane for sale for the QPR game.
I got 3 at £37 each and I assume they became available as QPR could not sell them.
So it is worth checking the site frequently.
A_Felching Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 7:27 am
there is a site on twitter that offers tickets for people who cannot make a game, they always have tickets
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September 27th, 2012 at 1:10 am
Canaries v Cockerels……….someone call the RSPCA, there’s gonna be a bloodbath!
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September 27th, 2012 at 7:40 am
Hope Kane is ok.
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September 27th, 2012 at 8:23 am
A rather crap video of last night’s goals
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BrisbaneSpur Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 8:28 am
It is really crap – the Australian WWW doesn’t support it! Darn it I was looking forward to that…… Ta anyway.
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LosLorenzo Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Doesn’t work for me anymore either. Looks like some barsteward has removed it. Fun while it lasted.
Townsend’s is really rather nice.
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September 27th, 2012 at 8:23 am
Even as someone still perched on the fence as an observer
, I can really appreciate this article. really well written and some astute observations.
http://www.byfarthegreatestteam.com/posts/tottenham-hotspur-boss-learning-from-his-spell-at-chelsea/#comment-7983
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September 27th, 2012 at 9:30 am
Top, top journalism:
Headline: Spurs Assistant Gives Update on Goalkeeper Situation
The update in essence being “I, the Spurs assistant, will not give you an update on the goalkeeper situation.”
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September 27th, 2012 at 9:38 am
Goals:
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September 27th, 2012 at 9:39 am
http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2012/09/26/carlisle-vs-tottenham-0-3-highlights-capital-one-cup-2012-vertonghen-townsend-sigurdsson-goals-video/
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September 27th, 2012 at 9:55 am
the beeb highlights show still had their redknapp goggles on too,we are all still waiting for something it seems
i don’t quite see the point of cuddles in goal though,anyone got anything for that
if we do happen to turnover the mancs who after watching the highlights look in better shape than i thought they were,it will defo be the end of all the bollox talk
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LosLorenzo Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 10:43 am
The bollox talk will never end. Might change bollox subject, but it’ll never end…
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kojac Reply:
September 27th, 2012 at 10:57 am
true enough
,should give avb a break,not sure why i even think we’ll beat the mancs up there though,a draw will do
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