More Reasons To Be Cheerful

flight-of-the-conchordsLet’s get one thing straight, and this may shock you: Stoke are no Real Madrid. Honest. I’ve got diagrams to prove it. Apart from the painstakingly obvious, the man on the touchline is the biggest giveaway. Tony Pulis looks less a top-flight football manager than a P.E teacher who uses the school’s lost property as his personal wardrobe. Didn’t he used to wear a whistle? Hmm. Maybe I imagined it.

Anyway, despite all that, Spurs looked ruddy decent in patches on Saturday. Didn’t they? The patches, of course, in which Stoke weren’t scoring or we weren’t clinging on with the intensity one might adopt if they found themselves saddled to a rhinoceros. Most of the second half, then, in plain speak. Would have been nicer without the constant arse-clenching fear, so said Aran on here soon afterward. Hard to disagree.

Huddlestone and Younes Kaboul both made winning returns. Big Tom could well have just nipped to the shops for a morning paper such was the ease in which he slinked back into the action. Four months out and it’s like he’d never been away. Buttery passing, confident in possession. Business as usual. A yard or three of the pace for Etherington’s goal? Almost certainly. But I’ll forgive him because he looks like a man who could pull an arm clean off at the shoulder without too much bother. Or at least petulantly stamp on my leg. As for Kaboul. I’m not sure what the exact science is, but with him in the team, we look, er, better.

That’s some Zonal Marking s**t, right there.

I’ll leave you with Modric’s goal.

Recognise.

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