- Jun 7, 2004
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What Graeme Souness actually said:
Hard to argue with much of that, once you can read it, without having it filtered through Souness' dour, negative tone of voice. That's often the case with him. He says things that are perfectly accurate, even complimentary, and makes them sound like complaints and criticism.
I think [Tottenham] got away with it. If someone was to see the result tomorrow and hadn't watched the game they'd think 'well, that was a stroll for them.' But they got away with it in the first half. They rode their luck.
The stats... if you ignore the important one, the goals, you'd think Villa had won that game. This is a resilient Tottenham, you saw it when they went to Man City, they got the goals and looked dangerous on the break as they did in the second half today.
They're better organised, playing with more fire, they've got Romero at the back and Dier, solid players, the goalie's been called in to do his bit. I think for Villa, they must be shaking their heads thinking 'what more can we do to win the game?'
They created chances, not half-chances, real chances. They were aggressive, they dominated play after the first 5 minutes, and they must be thinking 'what else do we need to do to win a game of football?'
Hard to argue with much of that, once you can read it, without having it filtered through Souness' dour, negative tone of voice. That's often the case with him. He says things that are perfectly accurate, even complimentary, and makes them sound like complaints and criticism.