A steaming pile of Hotspur
Ian Symes - September 17, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Oh hai. Yeah, we sort of missed the boat with the Liverpool match report. In short: the best opportunity we’ve had of beating them for ages, sod’s law that our firepower goes missing just as our defence starts to gel, but we’d have been happy with a draw before the game.
Moving on to the Spurs match, this was our finest performance of the season by far. OK, Spurs were hilariously shit (and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team), but we’ve got to take the credit for an excellent team performance. Gareth Barry is no doubt back to his best, and the likes of Shorey, L. Young and Friedel are most definitely big parts of the team after that game. In the end, the 2-1 scoreline is a bit of a disappointment, considering we could have had four before half-time, but after last season’s corresponding fixture, I’ll take that. And being fourth in the league? I’ll take that too.
The only real downside was John Carew Carew picking up a knock, especially considering the attack is the only area of the pitch where we don’t have adequate cover. And I think Marlon Harewood’s miss late on against Spurs proves that he doesn’t count as “adequate cover”. Hopefully, he’ll only miss the Litex Lovech game - Spurs kicked off a ludicrous run of 7 games in 21 days, and we can’t go through that many games without our talisman.
Speaking of the Litex Lovech game, how annoying that the kick-off is at 3:20 on a Thursday afternoon? Stupid Bulgarians.
superb performane against Spuds, we made them look very average. With hindsight good result against Red Scouse if you take in to consideration theire result against Manure. Have to agree about Gareth he is world class. Please Please Please stay and sign a new contract.
What worries me is how many more of our stars will be TAPPED UP next summer, money is every thing today and we need to keep our best players happy.
Ian great blog but up date it more often. UP THE VILLA
I think your being far too kind over the Liverpool result. We were dreadful and there for the taking. It’s funny that fans on both sides seem to think it was a good result for them despite the fact that neither side played very well!