Tottenham Hotspur’s first team didn’t quite manage to reach the dizzy heights of Burnley as we limped over the line in our last clash with Fulham, but back to back victories for the first time since November certainly shouldn’t be sniffed at.
Manager Jose Mourinho has already confirmed he will again be rotating the pack ahead of the next run of fixtures the club has which again sees us on the Sunday/Thursday schedule but you’d like to hope we will persist with the front three of Sonny, Harry and Bale for obvious reasons.
Palace themselves will make the trip with boosted spirits as they are on a run of three without defeat, and this weekend they should be able to welcome back Wilfried Zaha after his five game spell on the sidelines with a hamstring injury.
For us, the game still comes too early for Giovani Lo Celso but we may be able to welcome him back to the bench for the Europa game. Serge Aurier will likely face a late fitness test after his calf tightened up against Burnley, but otherwise we should be good to go.
Now we play the ‘which Spurs will turn up’ game…
These derby games are usually about passion and which side wants bragging rights most, United showed this against City on Sunday. I hope our lads are up for it, I’m sure GB9 will be relishing his first NLD for 8 years!
by the way, TQ2Spurs, my six year old grandson, who is learning to read, read your name as TQ25 purs. He thinks you’re a cat and he’s very impressed about a cat who not only purrs but also writes about football. I told him that purr has two letter r’s, but he says he’s still impressed that a cat can write at all, even if he makes spelling mistakes.
Haha…… I’m ok with that TK, anything that gets him reading about Spurs is good with me. 🙂
That’s a great argument for starting Bale against the Gooner arses. motivation is a strong motivator. lol. José certainly hinted enough times that Bale wasn’t always motivated. Hat trick for Gareth at the Emirates–a second rate stadium that seems as sterile as a morgue. Kill them off with three goals in quick succession.
Fek me Jod
Is your nick name Duracell cos you go on and on and on.
As HT has said if you actually took time to read what the other person says rather than your own agenda it would actually benefit you.
However I’ll probably be watching a much depleted Spurs team draw against lowly Newcastle next year at the old St James ground. Whilst you’re enjoying a Tina Turner gig at the new Spurs stadium.
Enjoy m8.
jod is right that it is possible that in the long run the TH stadium might work our well and bring in lots of loot to THFC. but Niall is right that over the next year or two the money spent of the stadium combined with the plague of covid might strangle our ability to put the best team on the pitch in whatever place we are playing. my take on the stadium and the plague is that the plans DL had in mind aren’t happening because the stadiums basically are locked down. After sufficient vaccination around the world stadiums might start to fill again and TH stadium might start looking good financially. right now, so far as I know, we have to pay off the loans while playing before almost empty stands. that hurts our ability to compete in bringing in new blood. how serious the financial problem could get is far outside my ability to predict and I suspect DL cannot predict either. We really don’t know how the plague is going to play out. mutations could out pace vaccinations or vice versa. next year covid might be like a common flu, or it might be overwhelming our hospitals. the experts really don’t know. virus mutations can explode or peter out. The SARS virus of some years ago in Hong Kong luckily died our, but it could have exploded. And an explosion of mutations and new vicious variants can overwhelm the ability to develop booster vaccines.
The short version of the story is: who the hell knows. we have to let the future reveal itself as it passes into a new present. when future becomes past, then we can tell the story.