I love Vertonghen. He didn't bail on the transfer here when Harry was sacked, and was patient through the entire process. He seems to really want to be at Spurs and is a fucking quality player. I miss Ledley, but Vertonghen eases the pain just a bit.NandM said:
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They're his anal beadsjimmyriggle said:
Very quiet sports news this morning. You can tell Spurs played well and won.
Ssshhhhhhhhh
Ssshhhhhhhhh
I'm fucking hungover.
Messy trip.
Great result.
Messy trip.
Great result.
Oh and came home and fell asleep after food, missed MOTD. Brilliant.
Anurag Jo said:
Check on footytube.com they usually have highlights ripped from MotD
i hear thefootballblog is good for this sort of thing....
Delighted with the performance all round.
You can argue "It's only Reading" til you are blue in the face but the fact remains that we notched our first premier league win under AVB, got some points on the board and got the media off our back.
Some defensive tweaks needed though, we looked a little sloppy at times and got pushed back when Le Fondre came on, but overall that's areas we can work on and improve for our next game.
COYS.
You can argue "It's only Reading" til you are blue in the face but the fact remains that we notched our first premier league win under AVB, got some points on the board and got the media off our back.
Some defensive tweaks needed though, we looked a little sloppy at times and got pushed back when Le Fondre came on, but overall that's areas we can work on and improve for our next game.
COYS.
kangar said:
Agreed. So much for the highline, we were defending on our six yard box for 15 minutes in the second half....
Martin Keown's unrivalled punditry:
That's why we pay a licence fee.
That's why we pay a licence fee.
Blanchflower said:
dont need to defend high up the pitch when your 2 or more goals up, with our pace, we actually need to drop deep to get teams like reading to commit men forward, then counter attack. i've seen this idea in avb's thinking but against wba and norwich we didnt exploit them at all and were a bit too defensive in our line up. yesterdays team will do, and will give better teams than reading problems working us out. important that if dembele's out, we keep the same system, use hudds as straight replacement, because this system uses our pace and passing to its maximum potential.
still have issues with defending set pieces, but a few more conceded goals will sort that out.
NO1JIB said:
We were doing it at 0-1, inviting too much pressure.
We got away with it but won't every week.
AVB really is nailing that 'GET IN' moment when we score. 
spooky said:
wanking material?
:gomes:
Not sure if this has been mentioned and sure it has but Dembele and Sandro were superb yesterday. The difference it makes having Dembele in place of Livermore was instantaneous. If those two are to be our two central players I have no problem with that at all.
Sigurdsson suffered yesterday; his passing was off, aside from that wonderful through ball to Lennon. He also dithered a lot, breaking down momentum but I wonder if that is his ideal position? I suspect Dempsey will play Thursday.
That goal at the end cost my Telegraph Fantasy Football Tinkerman team 45 points.
Sigurdsson suffered yesterday; his passing was off, aside from that wonderful through ball to Lennon. He also dithered a lot, breaking down momentum but I wonder if that is his ideal position? I suspect Dempsey will play Thursday.
That goal at the end cost my Telegraph Fantasy Football Tinkerman team 45 points.
Shows opinions vary. I thought Sigurdsson was excellent.