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- May 22, 2005
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Morning! (afternoon UK people).
Just caught the last 10 minutes of the first half. Read a few comments.
Just a quick thought...We always want to win, we always want our players to be showing something that gives us hope and gets us a bit fired up for the season, but...
This is the first friendly, with many of our first team squad missing. It might be dull, but it's still not much of an indication as to what's going to happen once the season starts.
Case in point....remember the 2008-2009 pre-season under Ramos? Here's the results...
Their first friendly, against local side Tavernes, saw Spurs stroll to an 8–0 success, with Giovanni Dos Santos scoring his first goals for the clubs, Tottenham then faced two of Juande Ramos' former teams in CD Dénia and Hércules. Spurs beat Dénia 4–2 and then curtailed the Spanish section of their preparations with a 1–1 with Hércules.
Tottenham returned to England to play Norwich City, recovering from being a goal down to win 5–1, with Darren Bent netting four of the strikes. They later played Leyton Orient, again winning 5–1 with Luka Modrić scoring his first goal for Spurs and Darren Bent scoring a hat-trick to take his tally to nine goals in five games. Tottenham then embarked to the Netherlands to play in the Feyenoord Jubilee Tournament, held in Rotterdam at the start of August, with a 2–0 victory over Celtic thanks to goals from Darren Bent and David Bentley. Spurs followed this with another win, over German club Borussia Dortmund 3–0 with goals from Bent, Dos Santos and Jamie O'Hara. Tottenham Hotspur were crowned the winners of the tournament on 3 August.
Tottenham finished their pre-season preparations with a 5–0 victory over Serie A giants Roma, which ensured they stayed unbeaten throughout the period.
***What happened next?***
Exactly mate. People are making too much of what is essentially a fitness exercise because they need their football fix. Calm down lads.
Would you rather they went Mental, battered Juve and Madrid, but came back with a few knocks, just to add the international trophy next to the peace cup. Jokers
