Four Liver birds sacrificed at Wembley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_bird
The liver bird /ˈlaɪvərbɜːrd/ is the symbol of the English city of Liverpool. It is normally represented as a cormorant, and appears as such on the city’s arms, in which it bears a branch of laver seaweed in its beak as a further pun on the name ‘Liverpool’.
If you`re a Spurs fan, only death would be an excuse for not knowing that in recent years our record against Liverpool has been a stain on what has otherwise been a remorseless improvement in our accumulated wins.
It`s been a painful period and has been known to induce uncontrollable twitching and manic hair pulling, and with the omission of Dier just before the game, there were reports far and wide of the symptoms reappearing, even worse this time with some uncomfortable squeaky bums and dry mouths.
Dealing with the dry mouths was pretty easy; a couple of stiffeners and an extra pint (or three) of Doombar. (www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk)
Dealing with the other symptoms of anxiety was going to be tougher; as we approached Wembley there was talk of a special ceremony being conducted at the home of Canadian Vital Spurs forum legendry poster ’80deg16minW.`
According to lore, Four Liver birds were ceremoniously slaughtered following his Voodoo beliefs and along with 80`s use of his unerring ability to sum up the opposition and accurately predict the score, the result was never in doubt;
Here was 80`s post in the prematch thread prior to the game:
>80deg16minW: Probabilities are with us. So is this fact that they are defensively **** and we’re acting awesome front and back.
4-1 Spurs.
Read more: https://spurs.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/
The atmosphere at Wembley was beyond my expectations; it was by far the best yet, the hoodoo has been well and truly put to bed, Wembley IS now a home.
The likely 77,000 Spurs fans also proved a point; our new home will need an extension (Come on Daniel – get the plans in early).
We played controlled counter attacking football and just as 80 had surmised, their defence was indeed rubbish.
For all their vaunted attacking prowess they were for the most part also pretty toothless, it was only one moment of hesitation from LLoris that allowed them the luxury of goal, but in fairness to counteract our irritation we quickly all reminded ourselves of the best piece of distribution we`d seen from him in ages – his punt up field to Harry to set him free to gallop unfettered and then as he looked up to find that Son had shown a pace we`d never thought possible, a brilliant forward pass and it an was utterly sublime controlled finish.
There are plenty of match reports out there, all will be better written than mine and as I have one hell of a hangover (please no more Sunday late afternoon matches Premier League!) I`ll leave this post match round up of our legendary Canadian Branch supporters club to speak for itself.
He is so often right in his predictions, I will in future force 80deg16minW to publish his prediction and pre-match summary (it maybe short) on the front page before all games and he will of course be our official Vital Spurs betting correspondent.
Sorry, for the short write up, but I do now have to try and make an effort and somehow get to the office, and if I`m honest, I`m only doing that to give a couple of Liverpool loving employees one hell of a tortuous day (i.e. overdue payback) !
Hope you`re all grinning as much as me today. I know 80 is.
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