That’s more like it. Six points from two tricky fixtures and we now sit level on points with l’Arse and Man Utd. Admittely ours has been a fairly gentle fixture-list to date, but given our struggles to juggle Premiership and Champions League I’m quite grateful for what he have.
This Week’s VDV Magic
Having bossed games in recent weeks this was a relatively mundane showing from Van der Vaart, but when you hail from Amazingville then even your mundane showings are sprinkled with magnificence, and so it was that VDV’s quiet day still brought about the game’s best piece of skill and a game-changing moment. One-on-one with the ‘keeper from 12 yards out, most mere mortals would have closed their eyes and thumped the thing towards the corner. VDV, naturally, instead took the option marked “Genius” with a chip so impertinent it ought not to have been legal. Pav was a touch shameless in celebrating the goal that was all of VDV’s making, but credit to the Russian for being on his toes while the Fulham defenders were standing around picking their noses.
William Gallas – Not Bad For A Human
The Spurs-supporting chums with whom I watched the game spent much of the game earnestly peddling the theory that William Gallas has been sent here to destroy us, possibly by Arsene Wenger. Pointing to the fact that Gallas previously threatened to score an own-goal if Chelksi did not sell him, they now reckon that this if this mercenary with evil eyes ever does score for us he’ll rip off his Tottenham shirt to reveal an Arsenal one underneath. Grist to their mill was provided by Gallas’ decidedly average defending for the Fulham goal – diligently deciding to park himself in the middle of no-man’s land, leaving Kamara with an open goal from about six inches out. He then did his best to sabotage our winning goal too, but despite his best efforts the officials decided it would be more fun to allow it.He is actually doing a fine and dandy job for us, but my attitude towards him remains akin to that of Ripley towards Bishop in Aliens. Only when Gallas is ripped in half and then saves my life with his mangled torso will I be won round and my suspicion dissipate.
Alas, Poor Ledley
The price to pay for this week’s three points was the latest Ledley breakdown. It is tempting to chastise ‘Arry for selecting Ledley (personally I would have kept him aside for the Inter game) but it is hardly the fault of our glorious leader. Our captain’s groin is likely to twang every time he takes to the pitch, given that the poor blighter never trains. If it had not happened yesterday it might have happened in the opening minutes of Wednesday night instead.
Elsewhere On The Pitch
It is easy to forget that in the opening exchanges we almost scored one of the best goals ever. The move in question saw Hudd cheekily dink the ball into Bale, who first-time volleyed into the path of Pav, who took it on his chest and fired wide. Six inches from being a thing of majesty, it was instead a mere goal-kick. Shame that.
There were a couple of photogenic saves from Gomes; a couple of curiously inept touches from Modders; and a lively debut from Sandro. BAE’s hair looks stranger by the week, while it was lovely to see Aaron Lennon rediscovering his joie de vivre, suggesting that he may have an important role to play against Inter this week, even be it only as impact sub.For all the controversy of the winning goal, on balance of play we merited this win, 2-1 a result that reflected the balance of play. Problems remain – not least 4-5-1 without a striker who fits the system – but this was a fine afternoon’s work from our heroes.
8 replies on “Fulham 1-2 Spurs: Well-Deserved Despite The Controversy”
“He is actually doing a fine and dandy job for us, but my attitude towards him remains akin to that of Ripley towards Bishop in Aliens. Only when Gallas is ripped in half and then saves my life with his mangled torso will I be won round and my suspicion dissipate”
Brilliant.
Many thanks. A joy to read, from start to finish. Unputdownable. COYS.
I don’t agree with your assumption we have had easy fixtures have you not been listening to Thoerumourman. Well here is a brief recollection of what is happening this year it all starts with Bookmakers odds and fear of the sack and relegation. Teams hit the bottom three with some funny old games then the headlines the smell of the sack then just like switching the lights on they hit form . We have witnessed this form from two teams in the Bottom three in both of these games two things stood out Goalkeepers and the work rate of both teams increased dramatically When we got beat by Wigan i must have been the only Spurs fan not shocked the major excuse was the champions league well it never entered my head for on minute and when we played West Ham it proved my point. There is a big scandal about to hit Football hard and its will make the cricket betting scandal look like a fairy tale. The police have uncovered a web of betting scams that will rock football foundations to the core and i discovered one of the ways a betting scandal can turn a shock 1-0 score in to a reality but proving it is worse than proving Pakistan cricketers are corrupt. So when you think our fixtures are easy think again i have . .
Well deserved? As Le Tissier said, Kamara should have scored a hat trick. Truly appalling decision by Dean.
Ripley, Bishop….absolutely perfect analogy. Well done!
Please write more often AANP!
DAVSPURS to replace Ledley for King.
Thank you, great article.
Great post. I agree with you.