Tottenham Vs Millwall: Match Thread

[Sweetsman]

Please for Dele today, stuck at it and kept cool with them dirty buggers kicking lumps out of him and a goal to top it off.

The ref was crap.

 

[Don_Felipe]

That's what gobbing off over the Internet gets you...

So, they ARE all mouth, then?

 

[riggi]

So, they ARE all mouth, then?

Well it would appear so..

 

[JayB]

One silver lining is that Son tends to score goals in bunches. Hopefully today's hat trick combined with the increased playing time he'll get will kick off another run like he had in September. Could hold us over until Kane's return.

 

[spursbhoy67]

Or George Graham

Fair point. However, most Barcelona managers have a connection to the club, have played for the club or have come through without a Madrid or Espanyol connection. The only one in the last 30-40 years with a real connection to the Madristas lasted six months. MP supposedly on record as saying he would manage Real over Barca won't help.

Graham never made any such statements that I know of. He was only motivated by success and money.

Some of our fans helped to hound GG out of the club and we got Hoddle in return. Graham was more of a mercenary type manger than an Arsenal fan. He wasn't wanted there either after he left.

 

[Don_Felipe]

Fair point. However, most Barcelona managers have a connection to the club, have played for the club or have come through without a Madrid or Espanyol connection. The only one in the last 30-40 years with a real connection to the Madristas lasted six months. MP supposedly on record as saying he would manage Real over Barca won't help.

Graham never made any such statements that I know of. He was only motivated by success and money.

Some of our fans helped to hound GG out of the club and we got Hoddle in return. Graham was more of a mercenary type manger than an Arsenal fan. He wasn't wanted there either after he left.

Luis Enrique played for Madrid

 

[worcestersauce]

Back from the game and a couple of things stood out today, first, in spite of the score I can see why Millwall are hard to beat in the league, they were organised and they all knew what their job was and the position in which to do it, they just weren't good enough to stop us scoring.
The second thing is how professional we were today, there was an air of champions about us, previously we would have eased up a little at three nil and got complacent and sloppy but today instead of easing up we seamed to relax but stayed focused and retained our concentration and just put them to the sword, it was a display of a team that know how good they are.
Shame about Harry Kane, it slowed us a bit for twenty minutes or so but we got into a new rythm without him and it was some rythm.
You have to beat the team in front of you and we did more than enough so we can read something into this result not just that they are League 1.
A little three second cameo today summed up Son perfectly:-
1s Good run good take.
2s Oh FFS! control the fucking ball!!!
3s Woah you fucking diamond what a goal!!!!!

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

I was walking down behind the east stand and about 5/6 tottenham fans were walking along shouting "We're coming for you..........millwall pussies, we're coming for you"

Thing is, one of them looked like a malnourished 9 year old (he was definitely under 13) and the rest were a bunch of wallies in skinny jeans and looked about as hard as a Blancmange

 

[spursbhoy67]

Luis Enrique played for Madrid

Forgot about that because he is so engrained in Barca's culture.

Played more games at Barca, and as a Barca B manager was being groomed to take over at Camp Nou.

My main point is that Barca tend to hire managers without a connection to Real and Espanyol.

 

[Gbspurs]

I do not wish to face chelscum at any chances tbh.. Conte is a winner, so is his entire squad..

arse in the semis, manure in the final for me..

Because Mourinho is well known for not being a winner!

 

[spursbhoy67]

Forgot about that because he is so engrained in Barca's culture.

Played more games at Barca, and as a Barca B manager was being groomed to take over at Camp Nou.

My main point is that Barca tend to hire managers without a connection to Real and Espanyol.

Also there is a real bitterness to the rivalry with Espanyol like most city rivalries.

Not many cross the divide be it Spurs-Arsenal, United-City, Liverpool-Everton, Celtic-Rangers, etc

 

[hughy]

Does anyone sit in block 20 regularly?

If so, please explain the drunk guy with the yellow and red cards. Is this a regular thing in North lower? Drunk referees trying to send off everyone from Chirpy to the Millwall assistant coach?

It was all a bit odd.

 

[King of Otters]

Nah. That was deserved

Maybe not deserved, but he was asking for it.

No sympathy from me.

 

[SUIYHA]

I went to my first Spurs game in 1993 and have been to countless games against Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham over the years but I can quite confidently say that today had the largest police presence I've known at any sporting event, only Notting Hill Carnival would have topped this and there are two million attendees at Notting Hill Carnival. Felt like half of the Met were there today. I saw things from Seven Sisters station upwards - what seemed like hundreds of police there with vans escorting the Millwall fans up and segregating them from the rest. K-9s were being used. Police horses. Helicopters. The whole lot. By the time we got to the stadium it was impossible to get down Park Lane so we had to go down Bromley Road to get to our seats.

Inside the stadium there was a HUGE gap between the home and the away fans in the South Stand, with rows of stewards and police on both sides. We had a beer at half time and I saw a few police coming down the concourse taking a medic with them through the door that leads to the away fans.

Getting out of the ground was a pain in the arse. The top end of Park Lane was obviously blocked off by a wall of police horses, so we were directed by stewards to go down Bromley Road but then found that the top of this road was also blocked off. I saw a few people losing their tempers at stewards who obviously didn't realise what the police were doing. We had to walk back and go the entire way around the ground.

It was pretty intense, but I think overall it was well handled. Both fan bases have their fair share of nutters, and whilst there were obviously a few skirmishes and that video of the guy getting punched, I think for the most part they managed to keep things safe. I can only imagine what these games would have been like in the 1970s. Maybe the fact that so many of the police are holding cameras and that every other person in the crowd seems to be filming it all on their phones means that people are a bit more wary of being too violent.

For those who didn't go, some footage of it all here:

 

[riggi]

I went to my first Spurs game in 1993 and have been to countless games against Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham over the years but I can quite confidently say that today had the largest police presence I've known at any sporting event, only Notting Hill Carnival would have topped this and there are two million attendees at Notting Hill Carnival. Felt like half of the Met were there today. I saw things from Seven Sisters station upwards - what seemed like hundreds of police there with vans escorting the Millwall fans up and segregating them from the rest. K-9s were being used. Police horses. Helicopters. The whole lot. By the time we got to the stadium it was impossible to get down Park Lane so we had to go down Bromley Road to get to our seats.

Inside the stadium there was a HUGE gap between the home and the away fans in the South Stand, with rows of stewards and police on both sides. We had a beer at half time and I saw a few police coming down the concourse taking a medic with them through the door that leads to the away fans.

Getting out of the ground was a pain in the arse. The top end of Park Lane was obviously blocked off by a wall of police horses, so we were directed by stewards to go down Bromley Road but then found that the top of this road was also blocked off. I saw a few people losing their tempers at stewards who obviously didn't realise what the police were doing. We had to walk back and go the entire way around the ground.

It was pretty intense, but I think overall it was well handled. Both fan bases have their fair share of nutters, and whilst there were obviously a few skirmishes and that video of the guy getting punched, I think for the most part they managed to keep things safe. I can only imagine what these games would have been like in the 1970s. Maybe the fact that so many of the police are holding cameras and that every other person in the crowd seems to be filming it all on their phones means that people are a bit more wary of being too violent.

For those who didn't go, some footage of it all here:

A few got brave and pushed through the police, I ummm....followed the crowd.

 

[zoneD]

...another solid effort from Sissoko today - I don't think he's a perfect fit to start in Spurs' tiki-taka possession style, but he's very effective as a marauding counterattack sub...
COYS

 

[1882andallthat]

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Dougal's going to Wembley, his knees have gone all trembly, come on you Spurs, come on you Spurs!

We know he's gonna play a blinder.......

 

[teok]

So after all that build up did they police actually have it all under control? I was expecting some sort of riot.

 

[JimmyG2]

How very Zen:
the sound of one hand clapping.
and of a cage not being rattled.

 

[worcestersauce]

So after all that build up did they police actually have it all under control? I was expecting some sort of riot.

In the end it appears that people simply went to watch a football match.