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Real Madrid Vs Tottenham Hotspur: Match Thread

Jay The Yid

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Not only do our strikers never score but now they leave us with 10 men away in Europe? Could it get any worse? Let's get this straight this wasn't a great Madrid side , Christ they even have the average adenayor up front! And we got humiliated. We have no chance of qualifying again for the cl and I think we have all learnt that if you are not in the cl you are nothing. And why? Because of redknapps failure to replace any of the worst strike force in the league! This will be his undoing.apparently he rated Defoe over Suarez???!!!! Is he on drugs?! Our golden opportunity to become a truly top club has been wasted! Redknapp out!!!!!!
 

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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I just hope that if it is a virus the rest of the squad avoid it. The last thing we need is another four or five players out sick.
 
Feb 19, 2009
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lennon hasn't come out of this smelling of roses either. Sore throat? ffs. Get a fucking soother and get out their. That fucked he ===the whole mindset of the side. Our whole strategy was to attack with speed form the wings but then we had Bale move to the right Modric to the left and the whole set up fucked up

Sore throat. He said he had no energy or strength. If true, clearly a virus of some kind or something along those lines - how is he supposed to run about for 90 minutes feeling like that?

Lennon's strength is his pace and running at people. That's pretty much all he does (not slating him, it's a fact). Without strength or energy, how is supposed to do this? He cannot. Therefore if he had played, he'd have been useless, and quite possilbly made himself feel even worse, so he would end up missing up coming IMPORTANT league games.

So best thing to do? Not play! A knackered lennon is a useless lennon.

Now, I'll refer to some other bollocks being said tonight.

Harry Redknapp is a ****?

NO, he isn't. Nor is he useless, nor is he a lot of the rude and spiteful things being bandied about here tonight. He is a good manager, who does have limitations, and who, imo, has probably taken us as far as he can. But I bear him no ill will because of this. He DID take us to the champions league. He HAS got us regularly competing for top four. He HAS brought our players together like no manager has in recent history. And for all this he deserves respect.
Yes, we are all disappointed at tonight, but sometimes things just go wrong. And when they go wrong playing one of the BEST teams in the world, with the best manager in the world, well.....you've seen what can happen. Tonight is NO REASON to be so downright disrespectful towards Harry. In fact, I am going to thank him, here and now, for taking us this far. I think perhaps we do need to change, perhaps he has done as much as he can with us, but time will tell.


I end this by saying....come on lads, pick yourselves up. Yes, we are probably out of the CL, but we are still going to take this lot back to the lane, and should give it a damn good go. Also, the league is NOT over. We CAN still finish top four.

I believe.

One last time.... COME ON YOU SPURS.
 

Green Samot

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The Lennon thing is very odd. I can't remember hearing of a professional sportsman not being able to take part because they were tired. It's the fact he did the warmup that's the odd bit. If he'd have done that and then said, fair enough.

I can't help but feel there's something more to it than just feeling tired.

I'm struggling to feel sorry for him. Why say he had a sore throat if it was a lack of energy?
 

ryantegan

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Jun 28, 2009
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I admire the fact Lennon was honest enough to let someone more able take his place, in the most importnant club match of his life!!......shame it was backwards and sideways Jenas though!
 

DEFchenkOE

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Feb 13, 2006
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Is it that hard to figure out? Really?

Do we have a like for like replacement for Lennon?

Jenas is better in the middle, Modric has played for a while on the left. Bale was the only change really, but they then re-shuffled into their usual positions after 10 mins with VDV dropping into the right slot.

Yes it's difficult to figure out, since our whole game in the cl has been based on wingers getting on the outside of fullbacks and getting crosses in for crouch its strange that with Lennon out we didnt just replace him with Jenas directly. Seeing as Jenas is quite ineffective at cm away from home anyway and playing alongside a defensive midfielder in Sandro we was always going to struggle in the middle.

Putting Jenas in the middle made us change 3 positions in the midfield when we only needed to change one.

The fact that we only have 2 wingers with pace in Bale and Lennon is another story entirely but quite annoying all the same.
 

gibbospurs

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Aug 28, 2010
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Not only do our strikers never score but now they leave us with 10 men away in Europe? Could it get any worse? Let's get this straight this wasn't a great Madrid side , Christ they even have the average adenayor up front! And we got humiliated. We have no chance of qualifying again for the cl and I think we have all learnt that if you are not in the cl you are nothing. And why? Because of redknapps failure to replace any of the worst strike force in the league! This will be his undoing.apparently he rated Defoe over Suarez???!!!! Is he on drugs?! Our golden opportunity to become a truly top club has been wasted! Redknapp out!!!!!!
Agree, redknapp bores the shit out of me now. yes we were bottom 2. but we were never gonna stay there. people say he has built a great squad??? who has HE BOUGHT? Crouch , defoe, Keane, Palacious, Steven p.! wow. Amazing players. VDV dropped in our laps. pure luck. The twat wanted phil neville ffs, Levy is just as bad waving 35million last day of transfer window. Should get of every striker on our books in the first team. Get harry kane back in from loan and play him. we wont get 4th now. Also why when kranks plays and scores goals does he get dropped?? I would not be bothered one bit if he was gone in the morning.
 

tobi

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose
Jun 10, 2003
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Idiot.

The managers reshuffle was unnecessary, Bale starting on the right? And why does Luka once again get pushed out to the left just to accommodate Jenass in the middle?

What happened to Lennon? Nervous?
 

AngerManagement

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May 15, 2004
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lick her arsehole why don't you.

End of. as bubbles said how can lennon be ok for the whole build up and then pull out 5 minutes before. he shat it. just like our manager has been through out this season. with bullshit favouritism. fuck'n ****

He didn't not play because he was scared, that I am sure.

I have no doubt he was ill because any young player would have dreamed of playing in that game tonight, no way would Lennon have pulled out unless he was actually too ill to play.

He has played in cup finals, for his country, at the world cup, away in the San Serio and even a World cup quarter final at a much younger age.

sometimes he has not performed to his best and certainly at the world cup I think his nerves got the best of him but no was did he bottle playing today.
 

mpickard2087

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He didn't not play because he was scared, that I am sure.

I have no doubt he was ill because any young player would have dreamed of playing in that game tonight, no way would Lennon have pulled out unless he was actually too ill to play.

He has played in cup finals, for his country, at the world cup, away in the San Serio and even a World cup quarter final at a much younger age.

sometimes he has not performed to his best and certainly at the world cup I think his nerves got the best of him but no was did he bottle playing today.

Well said.
 
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