Celebrating one of our proudest moments in decades.*****The next day*****
Some of you are nursing hangovers, I for one am.
So, we did it. We made it to the promised land after all these years, what can I say? We truly deserved it, for the first time in God knows how long, I really think we got the result we deserved. City were tough, Tevez looked lively, with De Jong holding the midfield line pretty damn well. I have to give the credit to Dawson and King. They were immense at the back, really gave it their all to cope with the threat that is the City attack. Kaboul kept Bellamy in his back pocket from start to finish, which you don't see very often - especially when City are at home. Let the parties begin all over the land! CITY CAN'T BUY 4TH PLACE YET....
Back down to earth. We have had a tremendous season, so I will now highlight some of the key games/ points in the season which effected where we are today (in no particular order):
- Beating Liverpool on the opening day: OK it might not be the most important game and it feels like such a long time ago but people actually started to take notice of us. We were seen as some sort of understudy to the inevitable 'Man City' tidal wave and remember, this is when Liverpool were considered to be the best team in the league; many had them down as PL Champions in their pre season predictions (as well as me.) It was also the first time we really saw Huddlestone and Palacios work well together. This shaped our season....
- Bale getting that FUCKING omen off his back: Again, not the most important thing now its been mentioned, but the media do love a great statistic. Yes Bale has not been on the winning side for Spurs in the PL since he arrived (I think it was 23 games in total before he did, don't quote me on it though) Just look at what happened when he did. Remember: we were also meant to be shipping him off on loan to Nottingham Forrest at the beginning of the season. Yipes!
- Dawson playing out of his skin: What a fucking legend. He has truly come alive this season. Capello will be a MUG not to take him to South Africa. Fuck, he'll be a mug not to start him after the season that our two 'best' Cb's have had...
- Beating Wigan 9-1: I don't really need to say much on this. So i will just say... Defoe (5).
- The defeat to Sunderland (03/04/2010): You might laugh, but that defeat REALLY opened our eyes. We really couldn't get away with shoddy defensive work or having one eye on the Pompey match a week later. It was a shambles and we got what we deserved. IMO if we got something out of that game, we would of lost to Arsenal & Chelsea. Harry gave the players the ear bashing they deserved and we buckled down to put in two of the greatest performances I have seen in a VERY long time.
- Pavulychenko's run of 8 goals in 6 games: He came up top trumps when we needed him. We needed someone who could score, he did. We won games off the back of his form during that period. He went off the boil afterwards, but quite frankly - he is forgiven.
- Jenas being injured: That meant we didn't play him, he got fit towards the end of the season, Harry realised 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it' and by that he meant - DON'T FUCKING PLAY HIM.
- Lennon: Christ. What a winger he truly is. If we had him fit, 3rd would of been ours by now.
- The Octopus: Pulled out some of the greatest saves I've ever seen in a Spurs shirt. Immense goalkeeper. I think some of the applause has to go to Tony Parks for his incredible work on getting his confidence back. That save against RvP was what put him in the category of true Spurs legends.
- April 2010: What a month. Started against Sunderland & Pompey (already discussed) but ended with some of the greatest football I have ever seen at WHL. We were incredible against the Goons and Chelsea. Every player did their job, even exceeded their expectations (BAE) and our secret weapon was unleashed against cowering right-backs.
- Telling Keane to fuck off: It had to be done. I'm sorry to all Keane lovers out there, but he had to go; the team was NOT gelling, Keane was NOT pulling his weight as a captain, just waving his arms like a psychotic leprechaun dancing to funky house music in the late 90's. Let him recapture his form and sell him for profit. Done.
OK that will do for now, there will probably be more to come in the next few days.
I love this club. To dare is to do. CY out.
