'We Want 10, We Want 10!' Tottenham Obliterate Wigan
Monday, 23 November 09, 09:49 AM · Comments(16)
'If you want to ask a Spurs fan for a favour, then Monday morning is perhaps the time to do it.’
Adrian Chiles, MOTD2
Hmm. Maybe that explains why there’s a middle-aged Pilipino woman sitting in the kitchen photocopying my passport and bank details. I’ve become a soft touch. Yesterday, in between all the multiple back-slaps and eye-rubbing, I would’ve said ‘yes’ to donating a kidney. To anyone.
Just baffling. One of those days when you exhaust every medium to confirm the unbelievable. Did that really happen? Watch the game, watch the highlights (repeatedly), buy the newspaper, watch the news, check Teletext; just hook my eyes up to a constant stream of the Lane rocking its tits off while Spurs torch the place down. 9-1. Nine-bloody-one. The world’s gone mad. Just mad.
Defoe undoubtedly produces the single greatest half of football in the Premiership’s history by scoring five in just over thirty minutes. Granted, Wigan’s defending was straight out of Dick Van Dyke’s book of comedy pratfalls-right next to trapping your hand in the toaster and falling head first into the oven- but the England striker was beyond electrifying. Relentless. He told reporters afterwards that he was half-looking to sneak another one, thus completing the double hat-trick and sending Spurs into double figures. (Yeah, I know. Lazy) This is indicative of his mood right now and Harry’s willingness to unclip his reigns when he’s deep in the goal-juju smacks of brilliant man-management. Most bosses would’ve hauled him off after the third. Redknapp, like a curious child lighting a firework who wonders what’ll happen when the fuse runs out, lets him see out the entire ninety. And Defoe repaid him by filling his boots. To the brim.
Our midfield was generally bloody magnificent. Krankjar, Palacios, Huddlestone, combined, were formidable; mingling power, speed and scalpel-like incision in the final third. Krank’s flick-over-and-first-time-out-side-of-the-boot-through-ball nearly made me weep it was so pretty. Sniff. Lennon was blistering; making Edman, who received a 1/10 in most rags this morning, look like he was running underwater. I really wanted Martinez to do the honourable thing and haul him off and replace him with a member of the crowd. A competition winner or something. It was heartbreaking to watch an ex-favourite implode so spectacularly. He’ll probably need counselling now.
All told, there will be few happier days than this for us Spurs lot. Pure indulgence. Watching the action unfold yesterday, while it highlighted many frailties in a soon-to-be-struggling Wigan outfit, it confirmed what most of us had a small inkling about anyway. That, on our day, this side can be ruddy spectacular.
And that suits me fine.
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It was bloody brilliant. I've been pinging around since 900 (local time yesterday). So many great moments. JD, Niko and Azza deserve all the praise they've been getting, but let's say a word about the Honduran Destroyer, back to his best grabbing the ball and bossing his area. And some nifty passes too!.
Two funny Things: The live showing in Seattle was carried on Fox Espana, the Spanish language channel. So 10 times we were treated to the sound of GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!
The other was when PSB was warming up and you could hear the crowd singing "Theirry Henry, He's A C*^t!" PSB grins and applaudes the crowd. Great stuff.
Well, I'll bask in this for awhile. I don't expect another 9 goal haul anytime soon
The score line still looks wrong. In the right kind of way. If ya get what I'm saying.
just started a petition to award Bentley his goal which he so richly deserved. Please go here:
LINK
and sign it! Cheers guys
Perfectly said Fox!
Wigan were horrible... but we were bloody amazing!!! After the 6th I couldn't stay planted in my seat!
COYS!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!
I expect though that the 4th goal was treated with hispanic scorn, given that it shouldn't have ben allowed.
What a great result for us at the weekend, absolutely extraordinary, still trying to get my head around it.Lets hope we can push on from here and start showing the unity that was so clearly evident on Sunday,COYS.
So we just moved into a new place last week. I had internet set up by the weekend, but the usual dodgy streams were dodgy to the point of uselessness. Defeated after watching the first half--of what appeared to be a football flipbook missing three out of every four pages--I took the laptop upstairs so I could at least follow the BBC live text during the second half while I unpacked some CDs.
Updating...
Updating...
Updating...
Holy shit, that can't be right.
The missus calls up after about 25 minutes, "Are you done with that yet? You're not alphabetizing those things again, are you?"
ME: No, can't be bothered with that this time. I'm all done. But they've scored five since I've been up here, so I'm not moving.
HER: What?!? Five?
ME: Yes. They're up 6-1. *giggling*
HER: Are you sure? There must be something wrong with the internet...
The best part might have been calling my parents after the game for our usual Sunday chat on Skype. My dad, who supports Le Arse, wanders in from working in the yard. Obviously hasn't seen the score.
"Hey, heard your boys had some trouble scoring up at Sunderland yesterday. Tell you what. I'm feeling charitable, so I'll give you a couple of our goals from today. We'd still have won by six, so I'm not too bothered."
You can see the wheels turning as he does the math. "Spurs scored eight?!?"
"Nah, Wigan got an Henry goal off a handball."
"NINE?!?"
Watching his head nearly explode because he couldn't release his frustration with an eruption of expletives on account of his two-year-old granddaughter sitting on my lap: priceless.
So was 'hijo de puta' when he was talking about the ref.
Ooh, spice-ay!
You know what we do to punk motherfuckers like you in LA, man? We fuckin cut you open, esse. We fuckin cut you.
Nice quote from Adrian Chiles.
However, I have a quote, from Stewart Lee, who describes the experience of watching Mr Chiles as "like being stuck in the buffet car of a slow-moving train with a Toby jug that has miraculously discovered the power of speech.
A talking Toby jug full of steaming hot piss".
Yeah.
haha....that's a good way to describe chiles,
i've always found him so negative,but then that goes for most in the media,i don't get it,they watch for free,get paid huge sums of money for doing f*ck all,and rarely do they have anything positive to say about our great game of football,complete pricks....
anyway villa up next,if we put them away,i'll be over the bloody moon.......i wonder if keane and jenas will be on the bench again....COYS
In defense of Chiles, I really enjoyed the piece he did on Croatia ahead of the 2008 Euros. That was great stuff, and funny as hell.
sorry longwell,it doesn't make up for the torture of MOTD2,
i know not everyone dislikes him,one guy told me he loved his book on the baggies,fair enough,personally i just wish he'd be a bit more positive on the show,he is supposed to be a football fan for gods sake,
It was bloody brilliant. I've been pinging around since 900 (local time yesterday). So many great moments. JD, Niko and Azza deserve all the praise they've been getting, but let's say a word about the Honduran Destroyer, back to his best grabbing the ball and bossing his area. And some nifty passes too!.
Two funny Things: The live showing in Seattle was carried on Fox Espana, the Spanish language channel. So 10 times we were treated to the sound of GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!
The other was when PSB was warming up and you could hear the crowd singing "Theirry Henry, He's A C*^t!" PSB grins and applaudes the crowd. Great stuff.
Well, I'll bask in this for awhile. I don't expect another 9 goal haul anytime soon
The score line still looks wrong. In the right kind of way. If ya get what I'm saying.
just started a petition to award Bentley his goal which he so richly deserved. Please go here:
LINK
and sign it! Cheers guys
Perfectly said Fox!
Wigan were horrible... but we were bloody amazing!!! After the 6th I couldn't stay planted in my seat!
COYS!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!
I expect though that the 4th goal was treated with hispanic scorn, given that it shouldn't have ben allowed.
What a great result for us at the weekend, absolutely extraordinary, still trying to get my head around it.Lets hope we can push on from here and start showing the unity that was so clearly evident on Sunday,COYS.
So we just moved into a new place last week. I had internet set up by the weekend, but the usual dodgy streams were dodgy to the point of uselessness. Defeated after watching the first half--of what appeared to be a football flipbook missing three out of every four pages--I took the laptop upstairs so I could at least follow the BBC live text during the second half while I unpacked some CDs.
Updating...
Updating...
Updating...
Holy shit, that can't be right.
The missus calls up after about 25 minutes, "Are you done with that yet? You're not alphabetizing those things again, are you?"
ME: No, can't be bothered with that this time. I'm all done. But they've scored five since I've been up here, so I'm not moving.
HER: What?!? Five?
ME: Yes. They're up 6-1. *giggling*
HER: Are you sure? There must be something wrong with the internet...
The best part might have been calling my parents after the game for our usual Sunday chat on Skype. My dad, who supports Le Arse, wanders in from working in the yard. Obviously hasn't seen the score.
"Hey, heard your boys had some trouble scoring up at Sunderland yesterday. Tell you what. I'm feeling charitable, so I'll give you a couple of our goals from today. We'd still have won by six, so I'm not too bothered."
You can see the wheels turning as he does the math. "Spurs scored eight?!?"
"Nah, Wigan got an Henry goal off a handball."
"NINE?!?"
Watching his head nearly explode because he couldn't release his frustration with an eruption of expletives on account of his two-year-old granddaughter sitting on my lap: priceless.
So was 'hijo de puta' when he was talking about the ref.
Ooh, spice-ay!
You know what we do to punk motherfuckers like you in LA, man? We fuckin cut you open, esse. We fuckin cut you.
Nice quote from Adrian Chiles.
However, I have a quote, from Stewart Lee, who describes the experience of watching Mr Chiles as "like being stuck in the buffet car of a slow-moving train with a Toby jug that has miraculously discovered the power of speech.
A talking Toby jug full of steaming hot piss".
Yeah.
haha....that's a good way to describe chiles,
i've always found him so negative,but then that goes for most in the media,i don't get it,they watch for free,get paid huge sums of money for doing f*ck all,and rarely do they have anything positive to say about our great game of football,complete pricks....
anyway villa up next,if we put them away,i'll be over the bloody moon.......i wonder if keane and jenas will be on the bench again....COYS
In defense of Chiles, I really enjoyed the piece he did on Croatia ahead of the 2008 Euros. That was great stuff, and funny as hell.
sorry longwell,it doesn't make up for the torture of MOTD2,
i know not everyone dislikes him,one guy told me he loved his book on the baggies,fair enough,personally i just wish he'd be a bit more positive on the show,he is supposed to be a football fan for gods sake,