Real Madrid Vs Tottenham Hotspur: Match Thread

[YiddoJonny]

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.

This.

I am absolutely devastated and feel so depressed after tonight. The sending off just killed the game. It's hard enough trying to play madrid at the bernabau with 11 men nevermind 10.

It's gonna take time to get over this but we still have the second half to play. An early goal at the lane and the place will be rocking! COYS!

 

[roosh]

Crouch's sending off was a bit harsh. It was absolutely stupid of him to throw in the second tackle after being booked for the first, and seeing a madrid player getting booked for similar; but how many more refs would have given him a warning?

The ref also failed to book Ramos for either of his two body checks on Bale - didn't even give a free for one.

The ref obviously isn't the reason we lost, but he was a bit too card happy in the beginning.

Again, though, Crouch was an absolute idiot to get sent off, but I have sympathy for him because it was a big game, he was trying to get stuck in, and ultimately it was just a tad harsh.

We put in a decent shift for the rest of the first half, and I'm a bit disappointed that Harry took vdV off at half time; I completely understand his reasoning, but we had contained madrid well enough in the first, it would have been worth letting the lads try and frustrate them further and turn the crowd a bit, then make the change.

Again, though, in that situation we probably needed an outlet up front, it's just a pity we haven't got the strikers to offer that.


We are out of the Champions League, of that there is no doubt, but we can try and salvage some pride in the return leg. This has been a massive learning curve for the club, including the fans. The manager isn't shit, the players aren't shit, but we definitely need to strengthen our squad in key areas.

We probably won't get fourth this season, but hopefully now our players might put in more effort in the league, to try and give us every chance of finishing in the top 4. Failing that, hopefully, having had a taste of the champions league, they will be hungry for it next season; and hopefully City will struggle for league form following CL matches in mid-week - mind you, they will have the resources to deepend the strength of their squad.


All in all, it has been a great run in the Champions League. We still have the return leg to try and pull off a miracle, and if the gods are shining on us it could happen - I wouldn't be investing any hope in it though; but it should still be a great occasion.

We have to focus back on the League now, that is imperative; and let's hope we have actually learned the lessons from this season.


Just remember, when Harry took over, we only had 2points from 8games, now we're disappointed at being knocked out of the quarter finals of the Champions League - it ain't all bad!

 

[markiespurs]

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.

:clap:

 

[ItsBoris]

Just remember, when Harry took over, we only had 2points from 8games, now we're disappointed at being knocked out of the quarter finals of the Champions League - it ain't all bad!

But with Jol we finished 5th and we have a better team now :shrug:

That season we started off massively underperfoming but it cannot keep being used as an excuse for the total shit we have played recently.


With our team you must expect better, to be honest I think Harry is a great manager and I'm grateful for what he has done but I think his mind is on other things like his court case and managing England, and he's made bad decisions recently. His biggest strength is motivating his players and without that we probably wouldn't have Bale, Modric, and Sandro playing at the level they are.

 

[Kendall]

Nobody has any grounds to call Lennon a bottler.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Nobody has any grounds to call Lennon a bottler.

Indeed. Absolutely insane. People are just angry because of the manner of the defeat. If we won without Lennon nobody would have called him a bottler.

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

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.

Regularly would have to require being chasing it for more than one season. As of this season from what redknapps said. 1st-2nd-3rd -4th -5th if thats what he wants dont bullshit me hes a joke.3pnts from 4 games against shit opposition.

The only thing that's scary is your ridiculously awful posting.

give a fuck about posts and awfulness. my image is ruined.

 

[Damian99]

Oh shut the fuck up. He was ill. Obviously felt too ill to be able to put in anything like a decent performance so was pulled from the game. It happens.

In the meantime, how about you take a glass of chill the fuck out and start blaming the players who DID matter tonight - i.e the ones on the pitch.

Fuck sake.

I am chilled, whats makes you so fucking right about any of it, you have know idea what was wrong with Lennon.

I haven't once said he wasn't ill, i said i would be interested to know what exactly was so wrong that he decided as they were leaving the changing rooms he was too ill to play. And neither have i blamed him for anything, you clown.

Fucking drama Queen.

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

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.

Benefit of the doubt if he was ill how and why it wasn't picked up 5 minutes before kick off? I'll tell you why. Redknapp.

 

[nailsy]

I can't believe people are knocking Harry. If JD hadn't lost his goal scoring boots we'd be top four now. We lost tonight to one of the biggest teams in the world, in one of the best stadiums in the world, and that team just happens to be managed by one of the best managers in the world. They also happen to have the two most expensive players in the world - one of whom can only make their bench.

 

[DiscoD1882]

proud of my boys losers think we bottles it. Seriously hang your heads. Eve 4-0 was no disgrace.Crouch defending from the front. Never a yellow card. fuck all you losers who have such short memories!! ban me I dont care!!!

 

[Damian99]

proud of my boys losers think we bottles it. Seriously hang your heads. Eve 4-0 was no disgrace.Crouch defending from the front. Never a yellow card. fuck all you losers who have such short memories!! ban me I dont care!!!

Never a yellow? :rofl: Two of the most needless and ridiculous challenges you will see for quite a while.

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

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?

Bam!

if I believed that reppin would make you feel good about life I'd do just that.

You're spot on about everything tobi

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

I can't believe people are knocking Harry. If JD hadn't lost his goal scoring boots we'd be top four now. We lost tonight to one of the biggest teams in the world, in one of the best stadiums in the world, and that team just happens to be managed by one of the best managers in the world. They also happen to have the two most expensive players in the world - one of whom can only make their bench.

knowingly consistently playing him even after the day his granddad died.

yeah thats a good call redknapp. ****

 

[gregga]

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.

Well said mate, couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[Matt C]

knowingly consistently playing him even after the day his granddad died.

yeah thats a good call redknapp. ****

He carried on playing after his brother was stabbed to death and didn't play as shit then after his brother died

 

[roosh]

But with Jol we finished 5th and we have a better team now :shrug:

That season we started off massively underperfoming but it cannot keep being used as an excuse for the total shit we have played recently.


With our team you must expect better, to be honest I think Harry is a great manager and I'm grateful for what he has done but I think his mind is on other things like his court case and managing England, and he's made bad decisions recently. His biggest strength is motivating his players and without that we probably wouldn't have Bale, Modric, and Sandro playing at the level they are.

We did Indeed finish 5th under Jol, but we've just been knocked out of the quarter finals of the champions league (having finished fourth last season) and are currently fifth with the possibility of taking the battle for fourth down to the wire.

And we did start off massively underperforming that season, but when we compare it to last season and this season, it is a major turnaround, and the last two seasons undoubtedly show progress. We are in a similar position this season as we were last, in a close race with City for fourth, except this season we had the small matter of a champions league run to the quarter-finals thrown in.

It could have been a bit better this season, and we really did have a great opportunity against madrid and we threw it away, but we will learn from this and hopefully grow as a team and a club.

i think it's easy to say that Redknapp's off-field matters may be affecting him, but football could quite easily be a welcome distraction. Even if they are affecting him, he hasn't done bad to guide us to the quarter-finals of the CL and to a close race for fourth - given that we didn't really strengthen the squad that much.


In further fairness to Redknapp, none of the current top 4 teams this season have really excelled either. In a season where the league was up for grabs, the usual suspects of Arsenal, Chelsea and Utd. haven't exactly shone. This was Redknapps first time having to deal with the CL, and it was the same for many of the players, and in all fairness they acquitted themselves fairly competently.

 

[roosh]

Regularly would have to require being chasing it for more than one season. As of this season from what redknapps said. 1st-2nd-3rd -4th -5th if thats what he wants dont bullshit me hes a joke.3pnts from 4 games against shit opposition.

give a fuck about posts and awfulness. my image is ruined.

In fairness, I think saying that we could win the league was to try and instil some belief in the players. I agree that we shouldn't have been talking up our chances, but I think that was the intention behind it.

 

[AngerManagement]

Benefit of the doubt if he was ill how and why it wasn't picked up 5 minutes before kick off? I'll tell you why. Redknapp.

It was probably picked up long before had and no doubt Jenas was on stand by the whole time but Redknapp and Lennon wanted to wait as long as possible to see if he could shake it off and be up to playing the game.

It seemed worse/more dramatic to us at home because we were blissfully unaware of the situation until the late announcement but i am certain everyone within the Spurs came knew the deal for some time and previsions had been made as soon as Lennon woke up this morning not feeling his best (or even last night)

We were no doubt just taking advantage of the Uefa ruling knowing that putting Lennon on the team sheet would give him the longest possible time to recover and see if we could play him and if he was still unable to play we simply make the switch and lose nothing because he would have been too ill to play any how.

The only way this scenerio can be seen as an error is if making him a sub from the start would have enabled us to potentially use him as an impact sub if he recovered at all later in the match. It seems obvious he was in no shape to play because otherwise nothing would have stopped him.

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

He carried on playing after his brother was stabbed to death and didn't play as shit then after his brother died

half brother. don't get it twisted. i swear down his half bro died from a punch. no stabbing was involved.

In fairness, I think saying that we could win the league was to try and instil some belief in the players. I agree that we shouldn't have been talking up our chances, but I think that was the intention behind it.

Talking them up then weeks later talking it down.
Would be no detriment to the players belief system?