Werder’s Original

batman_dark_tomorrow_powIt’s been little over three days since the universe burst from its centre on hearing that Tottenham had finally outdone one of the Sky4 on the road. Three short days and already a game of more significance than a NLD is lolloping into the cross-hairs with promise of more history in the making. Time flies when you’re f*cking awesome. Werder Bremen at The Lane and the last sixteen is but a victory away. Don’t mention the ‘H’ word. This site’s resident automaton might look like he’s been spreading a bit too much cheer about the place since Saturday, but that’s no reason for anything other than a focused showing against one of Deutschland’s finest.

I say finest. Their form is awfully close to awful. Bottom of the pile in Group A and limping off the back of two weighty defeats in the Bundesliga. The latest of which, at Shalke, courtesy of one-time-Spurs-target, Raúl González Blanco. Whom struck thrice. And here was me thinking his days in Gelsenkirchen would be spent tethered to a post with his head in a feedbag. Put the gun away, Herr Schmidt, there’s life in this one yet. Back to Bremen and our own Herr of Hotspur is wary of that old mother, complacency. Even with a wounded list reading like a Bavarian phonebook, the Germans remain an unpredictable bunch at worst. They’re a good side, pleaded Redknapp yesterday. He says that about everyone, I know, but tonight there’s no use thinking otherwise. There was a time when Wigan Athletic were presumed cannon fodder. And on last look at my Rothman’s Football Yearbook, they didn’t have Marko Marin in their ranks.

As ever, Spurs have one or two of their own flock in doubt. Van der Vaart’s victim of a twangy ankle- to use its official diagnosis- while Bale is thought to be suffering with one of his wings. ‘Arry rather airily brushed this one off in his press conference yesterday, so let’s hope it’s one to be filed under precautionary. Defoe’s fit, so they say. In line for the first Champions League game of his career. Buzzing, no doubt. If he has a hand in getting us three points later this evening, I dare say we all will be too. Two-nil to the Tottenham, says me.

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