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Adebayor said Arsenal can't handle pressure
what a tit :haha:
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Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
Secret agents :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sterling Archer
Maybe TS means: Truly ShitQuote:
Originally Posted by Sterling Archer
Massive result for our top 4 status.
Don't think we have anywhere near enough quality up front to win the league, but fa cup and top 4 and I'll be happy.
No, it's his credentials to allow access to our shadow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
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Daniel Levy and Franco Baldini are the stars of Tottenham's blockbuster summer as old habits Die Hard
Aug 29, 2013 12:35
OPINION BY DARRENLEWIS
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This has been a transfer window to remember for Spurs fans, writes Darren Lewis, and Levy's star turn reminds him of a certain Bruce Willis film
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More to come? Daniel Levy isn't finished in the transfer market yet
There's a scene in the movie Die Hard where Hans Gruber, charismatic leader of the hijackers, calls the police from up inside the Nakatomi Tower.
Asked for his demands, Gruber - played by Alan Rickman - calls for his "comrades in arms around the world languishing in prison" - to be released.
They include, says Gruber: "the seven members of the new Provo Front. In Canada the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte du Quebec. And in Sri Lanka the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement [he read about them in Time magazine]."
While the police potter off and panic over Gruber's ridiculous requests, he is asked by one of his henchmen whether he thinks they will actually comply.
Gruber replies: "Who cares."
He then gets on with his real objective, trying to steal the $600million sitting in the Nakatomi vault.
Daniel Levy has had a go at a bit of misdirection this week with the Gareth Bale affair.
While everyone has been poring over the winger's absence from training, the threats to fine him and the party being postponed here in Madrid, the Spurs chairman has pushed on with his real priority of getting some more deals over the line .
The less attention on those transfers, the less chance of the heartbreak of last week which saw Chelsea come from the clouds to snatch £30million Willian.
Erik Lamela for £26million is super piece of business. The 21-year-old attacker is widely believed to be one of the most promising talents in world football.
He scored 15 goals from the flanks last season for Roma in 33 appearances and provided five assists. He has a direct-running game that will eventually see him likened to Bale.
GettyErik Lamela of Argentina
Promising talent: Erik Lamela's signing is excellent for Spurs
And with the defensive steel he has behind him at Spurs he will have the freedom to express himself and provide the ammunition for Roberto Soldado.
Far from fretting over the departure of Gareth Bale, Spurs fans cannot wait to see Lamela in action.
Everyone knows all about Christian Eriksen by now. A bargain at around £9million as he has a year left on his contract.
Fortunately Levy had Technical Director Franco Baldini with him in Holland to prevent him making the kind of low offer for the Ajax attacker that would have had Tottenham laughed out of the country.
Instead the deal has been tied up quickly with even Chelsea - who have wingers and no.10s coming out of their ears - unable to step in to snatch him at the death.
The 23-year-old Romanian defender Vlad Chiriches is having a medical today along with Lamela and Eriksen.
Chiriches, a centre-back, is a player that Dinamo Moscow coach Dan Petruscu tried to tempt away from Tottenham earlier this month without success.
Instead he is close to becoming the latest convert to the Tottenham revolution.
Just to be on the safe side, the north Londoners will want to make sure there is no mobile phone signal in the rooms where the medical are taking place or where the contracts are being signed.
You have to say, though that Levy and Baldini have been the real stars of the summer.
It has been already been mentioned elsewhere before but you have to say it again because while Arsenal fans are grumbling over Arsene Wenger's intransigence, Spurs have been decisive.
They have spread excitement among their fans where there had been despair during the early part of the summer.
GettyFranco Baldini
All in order: Franco Baldini has helped Spurs find replacements for Bale
If Baldini can do all this as Tottenham's transfer fixer, just imagine what he could have done for Arsenal.
The word is that Lamela, Eriksen and Chiriches will not be the last men in either. Spurs still want another left-back and another striker.
But you also wonder whether Levy has another couple of fiendish sub-plots bubbling away, again, covered up by the Bale drama.
One would be taking up the challenge of seeing if he can hold off signing the Bale deal long enough for Real to have to take down THAT stage at the Bernebeu.
The Spaniards play Athletic Bilbao at home on Sunday. If the deal is not confirmed by Saturday the structure will have to be dismantled.
The other possible strategy for Levy could be holding off long enough just in case any move for Mesut Ozil or Angel Di Maria from north London rivals Arsenal is dependent on the Welshman's arrival.
Levy would not want the Gunners to sign either player ahead of the Friday deadline that would enable them to face Spurs on Sunday.
You wouldn't put anything past the Tottenham chairman who is very much used to getting his own way and has been described time and again as the most impossibly one-sided supremo to do business with.
Whatever happens though, this has been a summer to remember for Spurs fans. The king is dead. Long live the king.
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Oh dear Lord :haha: :haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
Spuds :pal:
He flapped once. And that came after he had been fouled just a second before, which made him drop the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
Szczesny has been almost as consistent as Koscielny and Mertesacker this season and has probably earned us more points than anyone. He has one dodgy moment in twenty games and he gets criticised. It seems sometimes that Arsenal fans think a player has to be flawless all season to be deserving of praise.
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Jennifer Giroud an Arsenal fan?
Hope he leaves. It's like we have nothing up front, Piers Morgan said it best ( :lol: )
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Oh what I'd give for an Anelka, Henry or Wright up front. Watching Giroud today has been like watching a tortoise hibernate
Adebayor's worked twice as hard as Giroud. Our centre forward's been embarrassing to watch today. #THFCvAFC
Bif's a fool. After a start that defied the critics he lets his dick plan the rest of his season.
And there you have it. Every time that cunt Morgan flaps his trap I think the exact opposite. So Bif can stay. Morgan, on the other hand, can fuck off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Kill yourself Morgan, just fucking kill yourself.
Giroud shouldn't be sold but he also really shouldn't be a first XI player for what we want to achieve.
Sherwood and his Big Book of Football Clichés managed to eke out 'papers over the cracks' today.
Dear Lord. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sterling Archer
In what respect?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Piers Morgan once again proves he doesn't know what he's talking about, Don't get me wrong Giroud is not good enough but you can't fault him today, the guy had absolutely no service whatsoever, and I think Henry, Anelka, Wright much better than they are than Giroud would have struggled to do a lot better. Ox, Rosicky both looked dead on their feet and Cazorla had an awful game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
In that winning is a bad thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Not enough loo roll.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
I thought Giroud was really bad. He couldn't hold up the ball which is why he got no service. He'd either lose it or attempt to draw a foul. It's hard to create chances for him when he's playing that badly because it's not as if you can play him through because he's way too slow to play off the shoulder. He's heavily dependent on combination play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Bloody hell, that was painful :lol:
Cracking goal and generally thought we played pretty well first half. Ox was good positionally but his finishing was poor. We had enough chances in the first half to kill it and, as usual, failed to.
Second half was awful. We were out-passed by Spurs. Spurs! :lol: Thankfully they're hopeless, otherwise they'd have at least equalised. Nice work by Wenger going with a flat back 7 for the last 10 minutes and good to see us hoofing the ball upfield to no-one to invite wave after wave of attack.
But...we held out for the gabillionth time this season in that situation. It's not pretty but if it gets you the points...
In brief: Spurs :pal:
Addendum: Massive 3 points. 4th place trophy is coming home, let's just add the FA Cup and this will have been a pretty good season.
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Dug that one out, very important result. A bit George Graham-esque but it worked out in the end. I think we were over cautious though to try and grind it out earlier than necessary, could easily have blown up in our faces defending a one goal lead.
I don't mean we should have poured forward at every opportunity to be open for counters. We gave the ball away too easily and should have at least controlled the game with more possession; spurs aren't really that good as their attacks were the huffing and puffing type. Still, job done :)
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Just about sums it up! Really happy that we beat the scum and put some daylight between us. However, that was a poor performance. Any decent side would have beaten us today. Giroud is ok against the pub teams, but showed today he is not good enough. We MUST buy a decent striker in the summer. We need to stop buying strikers like Sanogo. It is a waste of money and time! Thank fuck for Rosicky !Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
MIND THE GAPQuote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
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Originally Posted by Munchies
Least. Accurate. Shirt. Ever :lol:
Well played sir!Quote:
Originally Posted by Injury Time
Some day I'll buy you a pint for that.
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Originally Posted by Munchies
:woohoo: waaaaaait a minute :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
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Originally Posted by Munchies
that was written after the defeat last year.Quote:
Tottenham Hotspur 2 Arsenal 1 match report: Lethal Spurs signal a changing of guard in north London
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SAM WALLACE Author Biography WHITE HART LANE Monday 04 March 2013
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The great eras in football tend not to fall to pieces overnight or end in one great Hollywood finale, instead they disintegrate over months and years until one day no-one can quite recall what it was like when they so impregnable and so certain.
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Arsenal will still be in fifth place in the Premier League come tomorrow, only five points off the Champions League places but, as so often is the case these days, they find themselves diminished.
Arsène Wenger has only ever lost five North London league derbies but the problem for him is that four of those defeats, including the one at White Hart Lane yesterday, have come in the last four seasons. Slowly, but perceptibly, these two clubs are passing one other in the natural order: it is Spurs who are the more powerful, the more dangerous and it is Arsenal who put up resistance, much of it admirable, but ultimately doomed to failure.
That was the nature of it yesterday, when Wenger's side started the brighter until the big boys took charge towards the end of the first half. Gareth Bale, relatively subdued by his high standards scored the first, then Aaron Lennon, who out-shone Bale, added the second and suddenly we were again examining a range of mishaps familiar to the Arsenal of 2013.
This time it was the defence that was dreadfully out of tune in allowing almost identical balls in behind them from the Spurs' left channel to permit first Bale and then Lennon to run at Wojciech Szczesny and undo much of the good work Arsenal had done up to that point. Szczesny shouted at Thomas Vermaelen, Vermaelen glared at Per Mertesacker and everyone wondered why Nacho Monreal had just stopped tracking Lennon's run for the second.
Each time, the default position of Wenger is to confront his team's mistakes as if they are a new phenomenon but really the same old errors are being perpetrated again and again. He pointed out yesterday that his side had the best defensive record in the league away from home until he was reminded that this was not the first time his side had fallen to two goals in quick succession.
There were echoes of the defeat at home to Manchester City in January when a 10-man Arsenal conceded two around the mid-stage of the first half and never recovered. The defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the same month featured two decisive goals for the home side in the first 16 minutes. Reluctantly Wenger agreed. "It happened many times," he said, "and only in the big games".
There is much to admire about Wenger's willingness to face up to the most difficult questions, as he did once again yesterday. But when he earnestly announced "We were not efficient in the zones where it matters: at the front and at the back", you did get that looming feeling that satire could soon be pronounced redundant when it comes to this manager and this club.
Meanwhile, the same old tensions play out on the pitch. Jack Wilshere, the stand-out Arsenal performer again, tried desperately to create some kind of momentum with the anguished aspect of a man who realises he has come of age at the club 10 years too late for the good times. Mertesacker, even in spite of his goal, behaves as if every passing minute is an agony. No-one is capable of taking responsibility.
The decline is incremental. It is not as if Arsenal are bobbing around mid-table, but yesterday was another small descent further into mediocrity. The travelling support rose to the defence of their manager when he was taunted by the Spurs fans but back at the Emirates when they face Reading later this month, you can imagine that the mood will be different if things go awry.
The likelihood of the putative Middle East consortium's takeover of Arsenal reported yesterday is difficult to judge, but the very suggestion of it is one more black crow on Wenger's shoulder. He has fought for Arsenal to be run according to his principles for so long but there is very little he can say about Spurs with an annual wage bill of around £50m less than their Champions League-flush rivals.
And this was Spurs' day. Not, as might have been expected in the past, a heroic one-off in which they reached beyond their everyday capabilities to chisel out a famous win. This time they simply exerted their own superiority over Arsenal.
This Tottenham side has better players, it is more robust and better organised and while there were moments when Arsenal had more of the ball and greater pressure, Andre Villas-Boas' team never looked on the rack.
There was an exceptional performance from his central defensive pairing, especially the Belgium international Jan Vertonghen who was simply superb against the limited Olivier Giroud. So too Michael Dawson on whose future it could be said Villas-Boas got lucky. At the start of the season he was prepared to lose this redoubtable Yorkshireman who has now started the last nine league games.
There was little spark from Arsenal old boy Emmanuel Adebayor, taken off injured in the second half, but he was replaced by Jermain Defoe, back for the first time in a month. Bale was quiet, sticking too rigidly to a central role when he might have had more joy attacking Carl Jenkinson down the left, but he still scored his 20th Spurs goal of the season. Gylfi Sigurdsson, picked ahead of Lewis Holtby, was well worth his place in the team.
Sigurdsson spotted Bale's run for the first goal on 36 minutes of a game that Arsenal had hitherto had the upper hand. Then Scott Parker, another solid performer, broke from the same position on the left to pick out Lennon's run from right to left and the winger took the ball around Szczesny. Pushed into a corner, there is simply not the confidence in this Arsenal team to turn games around.
Mertesacker's header from Theo Walcott's free-kick from the right six minutes after the break flicked off Bale's head on its way in but after that there was precious little. Aaron Ramsey, switched to right-back after Jenkinson went off injured, struck a shot wide, so too did Walcott with a free-kick. The life slowly waned in Arsenal's game, much as it once did with Spurs in these derbies back in a past that feels increasingly distant
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It's the patronising tone that makes it so special!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollie the Optimist
Fantastic, we really didn't play that well but who cares. We defended really well today, Merts & Kos both beasts. I think we're looking pretty good for top 4 this season, it will take a monumental collapse for us not to make it.
Merts shaking hands with spuds - looks like he doesn't want touch them. Merts :bow: Hope he's not the new captain, because we need him.
We're so much more dangerous when we do things at pace. We usually get nothing when we play it slow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AgLcGRy2mk&list=UUiVg6vRhuyjsWgHkDNOig6A
'paper over the cracks for them' :lol:
:wave:
We won at the Lane :haha: :bow:
Can't fucking believe it.
Been long overdue too !!Quote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Red Ribbon