Saturday
The talk on my book Us and Them at Swinton supporters club branch on Wednesday at the Clifton Cricket club seemed to go down quite well and it was excellently chaired by Clair. I’m pleased to say that I sold quite a few books so the evening was an all round success so thanks to everyone.
Today I’ve been getting the subs sorted and in the mailboxes so they should arrive early next week. Norwich did well v Chelsea so we're pu lling clear. Big one tomorrow, of course, and here’s the It’s A fix extract from KK1 94 : GAME 22) SUNDAY JANUARY 22nd SPURS (HOME) KO 1.30PM
Last promotion was in 1978, since then they’ve been successful in the F. A., League and UEFA Cups, and their last pot was the League Cup in 2008. Most recent connection : Adebayor. 126TH League meeting
It’s the return game after the 5-1 win at WHL in August. It took us until the 34th minute to open the scoring through Dzeko, and he notched again in the 41st then the 55th to complete his hat-trick. Aguero made it 4-0 in the 60th, but Kaboul pulled one back for Spurs in the 68th minute, though Dzeko with his 4th put the icing on the cake with another beauty in the 90th minute to make it 5-1.
Crowd was 36,150 with 1757 Blues)
This season so far : They’re in 3rd place with 46 points from 21 games and 6 wins 2 draws and 2 losses away from home.
In the Carling Cup they went out at Stoke in the 3rd round 6-7 on pens after 0-0.
In the FA Cup they’ve beaten Cheltenham at home and face Watford away in the 4th round.
In the Europa League they went out despite a 4-0 away win at Shamrock Rovers.
Our form at home to Spurs : Last season in May it was City who took the spoils for a change with a 1-0 win courtesy of an ironic Peter Crouch own goal in the 30 th minute. Crowd was 47,069 with 2817 cocky Spuds.
Out of the 14 home games in the Prem we’ve only managed 3 wins, 5-2 in 94/95, 2-1 in 07/08, and 1-0 last season. Otherwise it’s been 9 losses and 2 draws.
Comment : Good season for Spurs again after that disappointing start with terrific performances in some games. They last won the league in 1961 (Cup too) with an expensively assembled squad which no one complained about. This season they can’t even afford Adebayor despite their exorbitant ticket prices and billionaire board members. Serious contenders for the title and it’s commendable that we’ve recently battled for 4th spot and here we both are contesting top spot. We did em here last year and battered them at The Lane (not Bridge!) so a humdinger is forecast and we must win.
No doubt they’ll trot out the “one Ricky Villa” song but always remember “3-0 up and they f*cked it up!”
Wwtwtw shite? Averaged 20,859 in 85/86, so not bad, and their current average is 36,070.
Hopefully Arsenal won’t capitulate again v the rags!
Watch out for the new KK number 194 which is on sale.
Cheers
Dave
City in good fortune shock! We've been overdue to get some luck, but it's fair to say we got quite a bit against Spuds. Still a great win that sees us well clear of 4th downwards, and a good way clear of 3rd. At 2 up it looked job done, but 2 howlers by Savic who had been doing ok almost cost us dear. Still Vinnie back now for the league, so we should look a deal more stable. Very good games for Milner, Nasri (looking pretty good now) Sergio and Micah. Funnily, Joe had bugger all to do except pick the ball out of the net twice.
ReplyDeleteMario!? What is it with this guy? A silly booking as soon as he came on, looked completely out of sorts, should have been sent off (and will be banned retrospectively and we can have no complaints). Then, in the last second, a neat turn, brought down and the coolest penalty you will ever see, given the circumstances.
Sadly, Arsenal do us no favours, thanks to a bizarre decision to take off Chamberlain (playing well, and had just made the equalizer) and brings on the completely useless Arshavin. Guess what? The meerkat lookalike complicit in united's winner.
Still, the next 6 games very winnable and hopefully a healthy lead before the harder ones, with united and Spuds having a difficult set of matches.