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Spurs have been absolutely abysmal defensively. Fancy Norwich to get a third!

lol Walker even a draw would be a superb result. Come on Norwich!!!

What a goal!!!!!

Fucking ridiculous. Norwich should have had a pen there as well :angry: :angry:

Big, big miss by Johnson

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What the fuck! Norwich should have gotten a penalty there. And Spurs score 60 seconds later. :angry: :angry:

Anyone got a high quality English stream for the Spurs game? The one I'm watching is rather crap

yep I saw your edit, you said you couldn't make out the number - hence my reply! I know what you mean regarding the first picture, but still imo Bertrand should have been helped out by a midfielder coming from the other side, so that Diame would have lesser space to run into. Mikel is only further away because he hasn't bothered to move at all. He's actually moved further away from the ball/goal if you compare the first and second pictures

That's actually Bertrand, and he did his job by funneling Diame to the middle, where he should have been helped out by the midfielders

haha nice one. am rewatching BSG right now :D Anyway regarding Bosingwa - Hope our clueless board doesn't see these reports about big teams being interested and then think "hmm.... if so many teams are interested it must mean Jose is a good player! Here you go Jose, 4 year contract!!!" Perhaps this is what Mourinho is trying to do

Really, really stupid by Bran. If the FA act fast, he could miss the FA Semi, couldn't he?!

Hope barca win the title. Jose will be so pissed off that he will stay at Real even longer. He cannot possibly leave Real to join City until he's won the title there.

yeah... but that's not saying much considering how rubbish Essien was haha I agree though he's been very good since returning from injury, fair play to him! No way is he a 'top class' player though or ever going to become one, and I can see where the OP is coming from. He is the defensive-midfielder after all. I have had the same problem with him. This is a post I made after the Spurs away game in one of CarefreeChronicles' threads His positioning sense can be awful at times. And I agree with that Wigan situation that the OP illustrated. He is the DM therefore it is job to cover the midfielders. The defenders have to worry about the other players who are near or in the box. In an ideal world we would have a better DM and he would be a squad player but for now I guess he will do.

Yeah we've gotta agree to disagree on that! but I definitely agree he's looking very lively recently and doing well whether played up top on his own or on the wing but I just don't know if it is worth keeping him at this club if he isn't going to become that goalscorer that he was at Liverpool. How do we know he isn't going to go on one of those dreadful runs like last season where he couldn't be bothered at all?! It's a big risk imo. The club should be trying to sign a quality striker so that if 6 months into next season it still isn't working out for Torres as a regular scorer, either he can leave or he can permanently move to the right wing

whoa that's an awesome site. Cheers for that!

Good job!

Personally I disagree with this. A lot of his 'team play' stems from the fact that he was so afraid of taking shots, running at defenders. He's better now, these last few games in terms of confidence but the Torres at Liverpool was a sublime, stunning player. The way he would run and defenders would not know how to control him. He would take one shot and because of the confidence he had, he would score. No thinking twice, etc. He is nowhere near that standard. He has compensated this by improving his all round game, and also because he receives very little support from the midfielders here. It's mainly mata who tries to find him. Our midfielders are abysmal and not a single one of them has the quality to pick out a pass. And it is not true at all that he just scored the goals at Liverpool. He was VERY MUCH involved in their team game too. They just relied on him too much because of that idiot Benitez but he was no way just a goal scorer there. That's a serious serious misconception. He worked hard too, tracked back etc. it's not as if he suddenly developed these 'skills'. So let's not credit him for that because he's always done that. I'm glad he's gaining confidence and as long as he works hard and TRIES, I will support him. For now I'm still very much in doubt over whether he will be good enough to be a striker here.

Don't really think Kalou has been working with them... he's been doing work for the team but hardly think he links up well with anyone lol

Agree. Maybe Bosingwa/Ferriera instead of Ivanovic though if he's feeling jaded.

Said it in the "New Chelsea Manager?" thread but we need a strong personality to come in and stabilize things for a while and sort the egos out. As I believe you yourself have said (please correct me if I'm wrong), RDM only has to think about the present right now, whie AVB was thinking about the future. Yeah he got plenty of things wrong but you cannot possibly compare their situations.

Over Kalou, Sturridge (as a winger) and Malouda? Heck yes.

Biggest mistake we made (if you believe the stories) was backing JT over Jose. That moment (again, obviously choosing to believe the stories just to guess at what happened) showed the players what they could be capable of

Of course I didn't mean that. but the point is true eh? He's a representation of the club, very different from a normal fan and it's annoying to see him doing that. And I'm not just picking on him, if it was Torres or Ivanovic or JT I would have reacted the same way. (not the "get the fuck out of my club" comment, that was a slight over-reaction but his performances have been dreadful and he offers absolutely nothing to this team anymore)