Lucky22
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The Times have a Top 50 Moments that defined the season and we are in there twice (for good reasons) and twice for the Jol saga!
Here's the good ones:
29. Spurs stuff Arsenal 5-1, January 22 Tottenham Hotspur’s first win over their rivals-turned-masters since 1999 was the stuff commemorative T-shirts are made of, an utter destruction of an understrength Arsenal. A game to make a miserable season seem fantastic for White Hart Lane loyalists. Arsenal won their next four matches, but this outcome hinted at a brittleness behind the bravura football. So did the second-half ruckus between team-mates, Emmanuel Adebayor and Nicklas Bendtner.
23.Spurs win the Carling Cup, February 24 “It is 2008, right?” “Yeah.” “But Spurs have won something.” “So?” “But the year doesn’t end in a one.” No, just a Juande, as Jol's replacement turned his Uefa Cup expertise to the Carling Cup, Jonathan Woodgate’s winner coming in extra time against Chelsea, whose superior ability was negated by Grant’s strange tactics. And so a club that doesn’t usually win anything when the year ends in eight had a trophy to compensate for a dismal performance in the league. For a while, the season when Spurs were supposed to break into the top four looked like the year when they would find the bottom three instead. But Ramos’ methods – healthier eating and a defence that concedes fewer than three goals per game – gradually worked.
You gotta love how they put our 5-1 demolition of the Gooners as a turning point in Wenger's season and how we rocked the boat so much that it all fell apart!!
Here's the good ones:
29. Spurs stuff Arsenal 5-1, January 22 Tottenham Hotspur’s first win over their rivals-turned-masters since 1999 was the stuff commemorative T-shirts are made of, an utter destruction of an understrength Arsenal. A game to make a miserable season seem fantastic for White Hart Lane loyalists. Arsenal won their next four matches, but this outcome hinted at a brittleness behind the bravura football. So did the second-half ruckus between team-mates, Emmanuel Adebayor and Nicklas Bendtner.
23.Spurs win the Carling Cup, February 24 “It is 2008, right?” “Yeah.” “But Spurs have won something.” “So?” “But the year doesn’t end in a one.” No, just a Juande, as Jol's replacement turned his Uefa Cup expertise to the Carling Cup, Jonathan Woodgate’s winner coming in extra time against Chelsea, whose superior ability was negated by Grant’s strange tactics. And so a club that doesn’t usually win anything when the year ends in eight had a trophy to compensate for a dismal performance in the league. For a while, the season when Spurs were supposed to break into the top four looked like the year when they would find the bottom three instead. But Ramos’ methods – healthier eating and a defence that concedes fewer than three goals per game – gradually worked.
You gotta love how they put our 5-1 demolition of the Gooners as a turning point in Wenger's season and how we rocked the boat so much that it all fell apart!!
