The Mighty Tottenham v Woolwich Wanderers

  • The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

Just listened to Neville's rather brief podcast and he was very complimentary about our performance but he made the point that we struggled to deal with balls into the box and getting them cleared... and that Andy Carroll is up next.
This is something that needs to be addressed pretty quickly.

We've been shit at defending them all season, anything on the ground or over the top our back four are fine dealing with, it's crosses into the box and a physical presence attacking those balls. However there's not much you can do against players like Andy Carroll as they're just going to win the majority of those balls, you could argue this is a game Fazio would excel in however there's no way we should be disrupting a centre back pairing that's as cohesive as Toby/Jan is.
 
Nice piece by Michael Cox, not bad for a gooner...

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...t-grip-midfield-against-spurs#:HfI160q5mPMZcQ

Don't forget to change Woolwich to that other word in the url...
 
CTXzvKnWoAA_yu2.jpg:large

:lameladisgust::allitongue:
Let me guess The Mirror, John Cwoss? His twitter timeline doesn't have a single tweet about the game, full of stoking up anti Chav proper-gander.
 
I read / heard somewhere a week or 10 days ago that Vertonghen and Alderweireld actually have the highest number of headed clearances of any PL centre back pairing this season.

Don't know why they struggled so much from set pieces yesterday.
The problem with stats is a headed clearance to an oppo player "probably" still counts as a clearance?? It is our only achilles heel defensively. For me the problem is more to do with blocking the cross (we don't block enough).
 
Anyone go for a piss at half time? (anyone at the game that is, I'm not interested in hearing about those who did a piss at home or in the boozer, thank you very much)

I didn't, my dad did and said to me afterwards that one of the toilets was closed (due to our lot smashing it up lol), so only one toilet open. He said it was so crowded in there, just like being on a dangerously packed terrace in the 70s/80s, almost difficult to breathe. It seemed to him that it was dangerously overcrowded, so he told OB about it, they just said "it's your fault, you smashed the other one up".

This seemed to sum up how police view us football fans: because some of us vandalise a toilet, none of us deserve basic health and safety measures. Not saying they should have necessarily left the other toilet open, but someone should have policed the remaining toilet to prevent overcrowding. It may sound over the top, but it only takes one person falling over for a fatality or serious injury to occur in those circumstances.

Great performance and very good result, so proud. Onwards and upwards.
How the fuck would they actually police the toilet though, eh? Tell people to go piss elsewhere? You're just going to queue up anyways.
 
How the fuck would they actually police the toilet though, eh? Tell people to go piss elsewhere? You're just going to queue up anyways.
Well...off the top of my head. You have one of them inside the toilet, to see how crowded it is. Then you have one on the door, to stop people coming in if it's dangerously crowded. The two can radio each other. If not this, then there has to be some other way. I know the police aren't always the most intelligent specimens but surely it don't take Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out!

(They do the same thing on platforms on the tube. If they didn't there would be dangerous overcrowding at stations like Euston and Kings Cross every rush hour.)
 
Well...off the top of my head. You have one of them inside the toilet, to see how crowded it is. Then you have one on the door, to stop people coming in if it's dangerously crowded. The two can radio each other. If not this, then there has to be some other way. I know the police aren't always the most intelligent specimens but surely it don't take Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out!

(They do the same thing on platforms on the tube. If they didn't there would be dangerous overcrowding at stations like Euston and Kings Cross every rush hour.)
I'm sorry, but this reads like satire to me.

Two staff members on radio with each other to police the toilet?

I have zero problem with them telling you it's not on them after someone smashed the toilet up.
 
I'm sorry, but this reads like satire to me.

Two staff members on radio with each other to police the toilet?

I have zero problem with them telling you it's not on them after someone smashed the toilet up.
Personally if I was a copper and someone told me of dangerous overcrowding I'd feel like a right cunt to do nothing about it, especially after Hillsborough.

Do you think they shouldn't bother with stopping overcrowding at train stations either? (they do this at WHL after every game, count the amount of people coming in to make sure platforms not overcrowded). Or is it OK because a few people smashed up a sink, therefore we all deserve to be in danger?
 
that was me haha Bryan. Had a blast you guys have a good group! too many gooners in your pub though! glad you said i was a nice guy and not a prick :allitongue:
Bryan, that's it! And we changed pubs. We have our own pub. As soon as I joined the group and saw they were sharing a pub with gooners, I pushed for a move. Best decision EVER.
 
Ours for the Liverpool match were serving beer at 7:45. Don't know how they do it since we're in the same state as you. They were selling samples, not full pints. And it was a brewery, not a pub.
They've served us as early as 6am. I'm not sure of the legality of it, but I'm not going to question them.
 
Ours for the Liverpool match were serving beer at 7:45. Don't know how they do it since we're in the same state as you. They were selling samples, not full pints. And it was a brewery, not a pub.
Are you guys at Molly Malone's in Covington? I watched the 3-2 win at Old Trafford there a few years ago so holds a special place! My sister lives in Cincy so I usually catch a match there every season although your following looks much bigger than last time I was there.
 
. It's an album cover, by a very obscure Canadian band.
Their record Company did not deny rumours that they were the Beatles, sparking a bit of hype. Even Little Nicky Horne mentioned it on his Capital wireless show.

It hasn't aged well. I couldn't tell you about Nicky Horne though.
Ive been reading up on Klaatu, very interesting. I had never heard of this rumour.
 
It's an album cover, by a very obscure Canadian band.
Their record Company did not deny rumours that they were the Beatles, sparking a bit of hype. Even Little Nicky Horne mentioned it on his Capital wireless show.

It hasn't aged well. I couldn't tell you about Nicky Horne though.
I should have known that but I was unaware that Klaatu were Canadian. I remember the rumours though.
 
CTXzvKnWoAA_yu2.jpg:large

:lameladisgust::allitongue:
What the fuck are those ratings??? And not just the Spurs ones...

Cazorla 6 who barely got a touch...Flamini 5 who helped stabilise their midfield.

Wankers.

If that were Man Utd vs Liverpool they'd have a fucking page dedicated to each player's performance including unused subs.
 
Back
Top Bottom