Coping With dePreston
Wednesday, 23 September 09, 06:28 AM · Comments(32)
No disrespect, but we need to put a skip-load past this lot. As well as giving the likes of Three-Metre-Peter and Bentley a trademark ‘Arry run-around, it’ll go some way to re-inflating our temporarily punctured confidence. Toasting Preston like a marshmallow will do us the world of good. No doubt.
We should be dab-hands at this Carling Cup lark by now; semi-finalists in the last three years, finalists in the last two. Never one to turn-down a good cup run, Tottenham have really gone for the jugular in recent years; certainly not deluded enough to consider it too small a competition or useful only as method of developing our young. Like it or not, in the last ten years, most of our best moments have come courtesy of the old Booze Pot. It’s only this season that we’ve decided our ambitions are heady enough to warrant fielding a second-string side; with a European tour chalked off the agenda, this is really our only method of ‘experimenting’ with the relative unknown.
And I’m all for it, really. Despite a catalogue of injuries, our squad remains fairly deep and resourceful. The likes of Crouch and Hutton (sorry, Kaybee) are more than able deputies and I’m sure we’d all like to see more of our promising youngsters doing their thang; Bostock, GDS, Naughton et al. At this stage of the competition, at least, we can afford to take a few calculated risks.
Ever the bringer of good news, there’s rumour afoot that one Michael Dawson is close to regaining full fitness. Timing, my dear, is everything. With the rest of his fellow centre-backs all enduring various degrees of leg/head/groin rot, the imminent sight of Daws’ on horizon is surely a welcome one. Just terrific news.
Back to tonight and after last round’s spookily accurate prediction against Doncaster, you’ll be happy to hear that I sense a not-too-dissimilar affair. Preston are going like the clappers in the Championship but too have a lengthy wounded list leaving them pretty short on numbers. We should turn them over. Crouch will no doubt be amongst the goals with Bentley providing more assists than Debbie McGee.
4-0
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If anyone puts "1st" in here, you need to be ashamed of yourself.
What's that all about anyway?
Foxy, NOT Hutton.
PLEASE not Hutton.
What about Naughton?
Reply to KayBee:
Fist.
Faust.
Fussed.
Reply to SeattleSpursGuy:
Ha, SSG!
Does anyone wanna touch the Campbell rumours?
Or, like me, do have you written it off as 2+2=5 on the part of the media.
kaybees right, hutton is the only player in our squad who i have no faith in. hes terrible. oh and then theres bentley...
anyone know if the games streamed anywhere tonight?
I'd offer to drive Alan the Hutt back up to Scotch-land myself if I thought I could stand that tosspot in my beatiful Tottenham blue Puma for anything more than... oh, 0.01 seconds.
"but K, he gets forward well."
But he cannae defend, which is, y'know, kinda the point of a defender...
*shakes head*
Reply to KayBee:
If Harry wouldn't put Ghaly in a game because the crowd started to riled, can anyone him bringing back Judas?
Sure, we're momentarily thin at the back, but Harry would have to be nuts.
Pure media crap.
Well....off to work at the cracker factory.
Sigh
Reply to KayBee:
I am always ashamed.
6th.......
Noughton Has to start tonight, why buy 2 more left backs? = Hutton cannae defend indeed.
Gio, Pav, Bentley, Noughton to start....
Reply to andyto65:
I didn't have my L and R Wellington's on today..
ashamed again...
I'll get my coat.....
Reply to KayBee:
Sorry, Kay.
But if you remember, I was with you on the anti-Hutton speil. LINK Maybe I'm just saying that, against Preston, he should be more than capable of putting in a shift.
But, yes, I would like ot see more of Kyle MK.1
Reply to the_ginger_pele:
It'll be around somewhere. But since the sad demise of Iraqi Goals I've not a clue where to find it.
That wasn't very helpful was it?
Reply to andyto65:
It's okay, I still have my mittens attached to my coat with a bit of string.
But I think old Pav is injured tonight isn't he?
Reply to the_ginger_pele:
Not being a CRIMINAL, I wouldn't have the foggiest.
But if you've got myp2p downloaded you should be able to pick a stream from somwhere.
Rock on.
Alas no Tottingham links on myp2p.
Iraqgoals is still alive (praise be to Allah!) - but guess what?
No Tottingham links.
Bum.
BBC Radio London 94.9FM has the commentary, though - although that's scant consolation for our American contingent.
Anyone else know of any streamy goodness?
Not sure if the BBC will allow this audio commentary link outside of the UK, but...
LINK
Reply to KayBee:
Thank you Miss, but that doesn't seem to work in these here parts.
OS text for me I guess.
Reply to KayBee:
Ta Very Muchly Ms. Bee.
I can confirm this works nicely on an international front. Not sure why SSG can't get it - doesn't seem to be a secured one.
SSG - a bit late now that its 2-0 in the 2nd half but perhaps try internet explorer? It could be a real player/browser issue?
Sorry to post a link to another blog, your royal Foxyness, but has anyone seen this?
LINK
I laughed so much I almost wet myself.
Reply to Trembly:
Thanks for the tip Sir. I'll keep that in mind for next time.
Sounded like we had an easy time of it. Can't wait for the goal show!
Reply to KayBee:
Please, please. Less of the formalities.
'Lord Fox of the Universe' will suffice.
Funny stuff there.
So, 5-1, then.
Our second favourite scoreline. Only one goal each different to what Lord Fox of the Universe predictorised.
That's quite delectable, although I'm looking more for a bounce back to winning ways in the Prem come the weekend.
Still, Cup advancement is not to be sniffed at.
I was elated to see Gio (my boy!) start, and similarly dismayed to see him go off injured - any word on the badness of the knock anyone?
Also, Crouch's backheel volley.
Football porn?
Davspurs is well and truly at it.
blog.sport.co.uk/Football/397/Top_Ten_Readers%E2%80%99_Comments_of_the_Week_.aspx
Woooo, publicity which hasn't come as a result of Shilts exposing himself in front of strangers
Happy days
I shall repay your linking favour
Reply to KayBee:
My dear Ms. Bee, regarding cr'Ouchy's back heel, football porn it may be in your eyes, however mine would probably prefer other select parts of Ms. Clancy and Louise from Eternal playing with
Reply to Trembly:
darn it. I got a bit too excited at the thought.
I must admit though to showing it to Mrs. Trembly and saying, His back heeled hatrick unusually looked alot better than I imagines it from bbc radio londons commentary.
Funny question, but Keanes pinpoint pass to Azza on the left side of the box, was that intentional or simply a case of lady luck shining on a shit cross for the tall one? I'd like to give Keane credit, but he's still not redeemed himself in my eyes.
Reply to SeattleSpursGuy:
*sniff*
Is it wierd to feel a little bit proud of Dave the Rave?
They grow up so fast, don't they?
He'll be on Question Time next.
Reply to Trembly:
It's a good question. In the interest of addressing the balance in the 'pro-Keane' camp, I'd like to think he meant it.
Although, on second thoughts, he may just've had his eyes closed when delivering the killer ball.
The jury's out, I'd say.
Reply to Trembly:
Well, I'm not particularly well versed on onanistic stimuli, but it looked quite sexy to me!
I know Louise from Eternal - she was the one who couldn't sing and married some footballer I can't quite remember the name of right now, wasn't she? Isn't Clancy a successful author, who penned such hits as Patriot Games? What's so sexy about him?
Regarding Keano's pinpoint cross... I can't say I care. Either way, it was crackin'.
Reply to WhoFramedRuelFox:
Can't you picture Davspurs in pair of stained and baggy arse boxers, pounding some furious screed on an ancient Commodore 64, pausing every so often run out and pelt neighbor children with lumps of shite collected from Beryl, his pet hedgehog.
Reply to KayBee:
Oooh er, I had to get out my dictionarisaurus to work that one out. "And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother." It's a funny old game.
As for Bob, I've been told by umpteen women that 'sexy' is all in the mind. You can't argue that he wrote some cracking books
Bloody hell... I never realised there was any biblical connotations to that, I just know it as a less offensive way of saying "wanking".
(Sorry kids)
That's quite the fruity story, though, isn't it? I'm sure I saw something about that on jeremy Kyle when I was off with flu the other week.
And nice one SSG - it's great to see our Dav finally get some much deserved recognition for his sterling work. These energy supplements he mentions... Lucozade or Red Bull..?