Is it just me or does it feel like this end of March international break has gone on forever. Never fear though, there’s only a few sleeps left until Tottenham Hotspur make the trip up to St James’ Park to face Steve Bruce’s battling Newcastle United side.
Unless I’ve missed something during my little Vital Spurs hiatus as I’m not a huge international fan, short of maybe some tiredness I don’t believe any players will return worse for wear and that should give us a decent chance to make it back to back Premier League wins again after yet another recent wobble in our form and performance levels that also saw us booted out of the Europa League.
Manager Jose Mourinho will be unable to call on Ben Davies, but we’ll have to see what the later injury update says when it comes to Son Heung-Min, Matt Doherty and Sergio Reguilon. Erik Lamela will return following suspension.
17th placed Newcastle might not have won in their last five, but they are keeping their heads above the drain and have proven tricky for plenty of sides this year, even if they aren’t exactly potent or that threatening on the attack.
As ever though, this is the sort of side that on paper we know we are capable of blowing away, yet we all season long it’s the kind of game that has been our Achilles heel and we’ve struggled to perform in.
All eyes to Sunday as we can still end what was once a promising 2020/21 campaign on a high and with something to cheer about.
I’m Spartacus!
Or should that be…
I’m Spursycus!
Karl Marx thought Spartacus the great hero of the ancient world for the proletariate.
I once said the same of Tony Curtis…
Tony Curtis… the first Hollywood reefer man. Looked cute in a skirt as well,
legs almost as sexy as Marilyn Monroe. great high kick. would have given Bale a run for his hundreds of millions.
I thought Jack Lemmon was pretty cute too!
Some Like It Hot (Spurs)
Some Prefer It Ugly. But that just leaves me cold…
Fek me have I stumbled on Rue Paul’s spurs drag race (lol)
If you’re Spursyycus HT, does that make Jod Crass(us) only joking folks.
Some great badinage here today folks.
I will say in Jods defence, from what I know of em, Man U and Liverpool fans just do think it is their god given Rite to be at the top of the premiership.
If we do look at it even The CL is gearing its self to keep the likes of these “historical” teams up there they have that arrogance around them.
I can’t count the times when I said to them after match day, we were the better team, reply “Ah but you didn’t win”.
But we did for around (what) four years play some fantastic football under Poch, great on the eye, hard to breakdown.
I think this is where I am now, I still look at that team of around 2016 and ask, who would I have replaced from any other premiership side, who man for man was better in any position, The answer for me is very few. Man for man we were as good and better than any prem side.
I can’t say that now.
Niall…….same players – different manager! lol
Niall,
Spartacus, Crassus, God it’s getting like a doctoral seminar here. lol. Crassus became the richest man in Rome, possibly the richest man in history, but he wanted more, and it led to his death in ignominy. He lacked style and grace. He won ugly, something that has little worth in the end.
I don’t think it’s possible for Spurs to be as much fun to follow under Mourinho as they were under Poch until the loss in the CL final after the atrocious non-penalty that was called a penalty and took much of the air out of the balloon.
Even it we win a cup or two with Mourinho, it will at best be mixed with embarrassment. it’s like this in other athletic competitions. Watching Muhammad Ali win a championship was a thrill. Watching Floyd Patterson win the same championship, no thrill at all. One floated like a butterfly, the other peek-a-booed like a sterile training partner. Sometimes winning can leave a man flat, no emotion, no thrill down the spine. winning isn’t worth it sometimes.
I guess I’m greedy. I demand that winning come with something more. And that something more shouldn’t be something less in disguise. Remember when Greece won Europe? there was a thrill to seeing someone who wasn’t Germany or Italy win, but the matches themselves could make a man cry at the loss of thrill on the pitch. I want to win, but I want it done with grace and beauty. to win when there’s nothing else is like dating a beautiful woman who’s a complete bore with values that make you sick and she ends up making you wish you were alone in front of the TV. What a disappointment. Scoring isn’t always satisfying, if you catch my drift.
TQ2Spurs ,
nice play on words. appreciated.
TK
Great Post TK, I always saw us (Spurs) as like the 1974 Netherlands team, the greatest team to win nothing.
Jod – what kind of fantasy land are you living in. Have you not noticed that the most successful teams play exciting attacking football with an element of risk, but it is calculated risk. Or are you still living in that fantasy land where you believe the outdated cowardly negative devisive manager we currently have is going to win us trophies. In case you hadn’t noticed, we are currently playing negative, dull, losing football.
holland ’74 was a wonderful team and any dutchman who isn’t proud of the memory of that Netherlands team fails to grasp what football is about.
What a funny country. the Netherlands, or Holland, and living there are the Dutch. Confused the hell out of me when I was a wee lad learning about the countries in the world. Almost as bad: The English who live in the UK and are sometimes British. What’s with these places?
And Northern Ireland, belongs officially in the UK, but has to pass customs to get to Britain, and can walk back and forth to Ireland, which is part of the EU, but isn’t part of the UK. This is a WTF world all right.
The ’74 Netherlands team was a winner no matter what they never won. but they ran into Mario Zagallo’s Brasil team. Both teams were wonderful. What a character Zagallo was. Macumba, man!
Under poch we played the way the fans wanted and got us CL etc (ok it Didnt end well that’s another story) I want spurs not only to play like that again, but you need more then that, at times you need to be ruthless, savy, cocky, arrogant types mentally etc something we don’t have.
If Mourinho the Miserable cannot get this team–our team, not his–to play with some enthusiasm versus Manure–the last team to sack the miserable bastard–then DL shouldn’t hesitate to throw Mourinho the Miserable under the nearest large and heavy multi-wheeled vehicle. If you park the bus you should get thrown under the bus.
But then again, the Miserable Bastard couldn’t get them to play with a drop of enthusiasm in the North London derby, so why think he can get them to care this coming weekend versus Manure? Could you have imagined the lethargic careless performance versus the Gooners before seeing it? Is this what we should anticipate vs Manure? If so, we should march on the training grounds with fresh tar and feathers.
Where is the pride, José? It’s your job to get the team to show some pride. Your job.
You’ve not been doing your job.
Stop blaming others, you miserable bastard. Look in a mirror. There you will see the problem. How could such a miserable bastard motivate anyone?
Win or lose on Sunday, let’s see some effort for a change. To see a lethargic and uncaring performance by a Spurs team is the depths of despair. It is as anti-Spurs as one can get. Go manage a cess pool, you Miserable Bastard. I can tolerate losing if I see some caring. But to watch miserable performances with a miserable lack of effort is beyond tolerating.
Let’s see a team with some real fight in it. What we’re seeing with Miserable Mourinho at the helm is a lot of passive aggression aimed in his direction. Enough already. To the barricades, mates!
Oh, and good morning, mates.
You can see what waking up was like for me this morning. You did this, you miserable bastard, Miserable Mourinho. I can take losing. I can’t take watching lethargic and dumb play by a team wearing the Spurs kit. I keep seeing Gareth Bale playing at Emirates with not particular interest in what was going on around him. Lethargic G. Bale and Mourinho–more than I can tolerate. Lack of talent, what can you do? Talent wasted through indifference? Shameful.
Well……it’s going to be interesting to see if there is any kind of reaction from the players this weekend.
We do have one big advantage having been knocked out of the EL, United have to travel to play their game against Granada on Thursday and we all know how these games can result in a hangover for the weekend PL games. It seems likely United will take the EL very seriously now that they have virtually no chance of winning the PL and are fairly comfortable in second place. I think we can expect them to field a strong team in the EL and rotate for the PL on Sunday with their top players only being used late on against us if needed.
Question is…..will we be able to use the advantage from being the fresher team or will we see them again react poorly to the manager’s adverse comments and negative tactics?
TQ2Spurs asks whether we will we see them again react poorly to the manager’s adverse comments and negative tactics. The poor reaction to the miserable adverse comments and negative tactics is called passive aggression. I’ll show you, you bastard. I’ll saunter instead of running. I’ll watch instead of anticipating. I’ll let the game pass me by. This is what Miserable Mourinho has produced. Can you imagine what this experience is like for our young players? This cannot be allowed to become a new tradition for our club. We might as well as put them on a zombi drug and watch them stumble about as the walking dead.
Take a long walk, Mourinho, into oncoming traffic on the A1. Do the honourable thing: Seppuku. Free our team from your pernicious ego. Look at the zombi play and understand that you are causing this.
So….you have fairly strong views about this then TK. lol