Tottenham Hotspur

[Sisterstiffticket]

Oh...and our next League Cup encounter...Shouldn't be a problem.

YOU bloody lot at the lane!

[Liverpool]

I liked Jol, Ramos hasnt lived up to bill yet but should come good soon enough and youll end up middle table with nothing to play for.

[Sisterstiffticket]

I liked Jol, Ramos hasnt lived up to bill yet but should come good soon enough and youll end up middle table with nothing to play for.

Well right now...we have mid table to play for!

[Shaggy]

Hey Shaggy...how do you mean by small time cunts? What have I missed!

No offence intended obviously but they spent the whole game singing about Sol Campbell. Came across as really bitter IMO. It was years ago...get over it ffs.

[DannyMan2006]

No offence intended obviously but they spent the whole game singing about Sol Campbell. Came across as really bitter IMO. It was years ago...get over it ffs.

Would you if Gerrard left for Man Utd? I know I wouldn't.

And to be fair to Spurs fans they did support their team when two goals down singing "We are super Tottenham from the lane" so I think they deserve credit.

It's the players who were small time. No passion and no idea. Pav up front was ****ing ****e and did nothing all game, though it may be put downto lack of service. When Bent came on he had two chances in three minutes.

Clueless.

[dww]

I'm gobsmacked. We are so bad and it all seems as clear as day as to why and whats missing. I thought, and still think Ramos will do the business but there appears to be too much influence from above.

That said, however, what was he thinking by bringing on Bent for Pav???.
Surely we should have been playing them both as we were chasing the game. Also, I just watched it and Poyet has said they cant play together as they are too similar. NO ****!

So why ****ing buy him???

Hey Shaggy...how do you mean by small time cunts? What have I missed!

To be fair to Ramos his system seems to be about one forward giving a focal point and then players joining from deeper. So you need two forwards in the squad who can be the one up top and I'm never convinced that simply bringing on another forward will improve a team offensively. Bring on the wrong forward and you simply isolate two players away from service rather than one, when you could have bought on a different source of service or indeed swapped one forward for another who might just be in better form that day.

I have to say I think that whoever was in charge of the summers transfers is an idiot. They got in a lot of expensive talent but avoided getting the defensive midfielder that has been cried out for since the departures of Carrick and Davids. They bought in no experience to replace the likes of Keane in terms of leadership and seemed to have no plan in place to replace Berbatov who surely they must have considered might, just might, be on his way out on top of the loss of Keane.

If Ramos doesn't get a good result in the next two I think he is in real trouble. Without a leader to carry them forward I think their confidence might be shot by another bad result. Not one area of the team is seen to be performing well on a consistent basis and unlike Newcastle (for example) they have a largely fit squad.

[Helios Creed]

He seems to be going through the same acclimatisation process that Rafa underwent. He's even getting flak for rotating his players and claiming that he has 22 equal players to choose from - sounds familiar...
The difference is will he get time to adjust?

[Rich]

There has to come a point when the club panics and jettisons the manager - it can't be far away for Spurs now

[Reaper]

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[Matt]

[wavydavy]

Martin Jol is a good man and a good manager. I always remember the way he handled himself after the famous Pedro Mendes "goal" at Old Trafford that time. Total class. The shameful events of last season where he effectively lost his job as he sat on the bench at the Spurs/ Villa game were a total disgrace. He lifted Spurs to two 5th place spots in successive years and they gave him the bullet.
How must Martin Jol feel now? His talented Hamburg team sit on top of the Bundesliga while his former employers Tottenham languish at the foot of the premiership.
Ain't football just fantastic sometimes?

[Leyton388]

If Hamburg win the title and spurs go down he should send a nice letter to spurs with a picture of him with the Trophy.

[Joe King]

Whats the difference between Spurs and a triangle?

You guessed it, ones is a shape and the other lacks one.

The actual answer is that at least a triangle has three points

[Vermilion]

Martin Jol is a good man and a good manager. I always remember the way he handled himself after the famous Pedro Mendes "goal" at Old Trafford that time. Total class. The shameful events of last season where he effectively lost his job as he sat on the bench at the Spurs/ Villa game were a total disgrace. He lifted Spurs to two 5th place spots in successive years and they gave him the bullet.
How must Martin Jol feel now? His talented Hamburg team sit on top of the Bundesliga while his former employers Tottenham languish at the foot of the premiership.
Ain't football just fantastic sometimes?

Very well put...and so true.

[MindGuerrillas]

FA 'must act' on Campbell taunts

The Football Association has been urged to act by Hampshire police over verbal abuse directed at Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell at Fratton Park.

The force said it made the complaint about some Tottenham Hotspur fans because "it was not feasible to make arrests in that kind of huge crowd".

The FA, awaiting reports from witnesses and officials at the game, said it would "take action where necessary".

Pompey manager Harry Redknapp branded the verbal attacks as "filthy".

Campbell left Spurs on a free transfer in June 2001 to join fierce local rivals Arsenal.

The 34-year-old, who joined Portsmouth from Arsenal in August 2006 on another free transfer, was subjected to taunts when Pompey lost at home to Tottenham on 15 December last year.

The former England star reportedly aired his complaints on a local radio phone-in programme.

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said: "Our officers at the game were aware of the problem but it was not feasible to make arrests in that kind of huge crowd situation - so no arrests were made.

"Clubs employ us to keep situations like this to a minimum and with the help of stewards on their staff we can normally warn people they are committing a public order offence.

"That often solves the problem but on this occasion it was just too much.

"I cannot say whether the chanting was obscene, homophobic or racist, not having been there, but the FA officer we contacted said he understood from his background experience what it was."

In a statement, the FA said it "recognised football has a duty to challenge all discrimination within the game and its aim is to confront aggressive issues and obscene chanting and abuse".

It added that it took "these matters seriously and would investigate any alleged case they are made aware of".

Harry Redknapp said: "Nobody likes being called filthy names and hearing other filthy abuse.

"It's not right. What has that got to do with coming to a game? For a start there are kids there.

"Sol's been fantastic since he came here and he was terrific again on Sunday."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/7643058.stm