A Bad Week for Football

The majority of the Premiership games are cancelled due to the bad weather conditions:  Rubbish

Both Carling Cup games are called off, also due to the weather:  Pants

The Chelsea team go sledging on Parliament Hill and no one is injured: a Wasted opportunity

Patrick Viera returns to the Premiership but with Man City:  Upsetting (for Arsenal fans)

Owen Coyle bizarrely leaves Burnley for Bolton Wanderers: Strange and Disappointing

Just before the African Nations Cup the Togo team bus is attacked resulting in the death of the driver and the injury of two players: Awful

So all in all not the best week for football.  One of those stories is a lie, and sadly its not the last one.  Rubbish.

James

Thoughts on Spurs’ Progress

I haven’t written for a while on here, so thought I’d put some brief thoughts up, while listening to the Stereophonics and drinking hot chocolate. First, Harry’s had his first couple of losses, both pretty disappointing results against Fulham and Everton. Those were both games in which I fancied us to get a result, and we played pretty poorly both days (Gomes’ error was of course pivotal against Fulham). Had we won those games we wouldn’t still be down in the bottom five, but with the Prem so close this year, a few more good results (tomorrow night at West Ham to start with) should have us clear. On the whole Harry’s done wonderfully, and it would be silly to suggest everything would come right in a few short weeks. And at least Gomes seems to have some confidence back now.

Second, we’ve reached the Carling Cup semi-finals, and will play Burnley. Assuming we beat them, we will likely face Man Utd in the final. It looks like retaining the Carling Cup may be our best route back into Europe next year, and so I’m hoping (if we do get to the final) that we do what we did last year, and pull of a shock result. Would be lovely to win another trophy given how bad the season started. Third, rumours are that Rafa Benitez might be looking to offload Robbie Keane in the January transfer window. I’m not sure how far I believe that, but Robbie really hasn’t had the start as a Liverpool player he would have wanted (and neither, I’m very pleased to say, has Berbatov at Man Utd). In one sense, I’m sad for him, because I always liked the lad, but on the other hand, it’s quite nice to see a man who turned his back on the club struggling as a result of that very decision. For me, though, he’d always be welcome back at the Lane.

Finally, Darren Anderton, ex-Tottenham hero, has hung up his boots in the best possible way, with a late winner for Bournemouth on Saturday against Chester City. When he was fit, he was a wonderful player, so all the best to him in the future; maybe he’ll go into TV punditry, and we’ll get to hear his words of wisdom on Soccer Saturday or something like that. Oh, and nice to see Nick Barmby back in the Prem with Hull City too! A fine Spurs’ player he was too, before he defected to Everton.

Well, that’s all I can think of for now.

Simon