Hoyte: On A Par With Utd & Chelsea

I don't think that there is any doubht that we can match any team in Europe for footballing quality. If you look at Chavski and the M*ncs they have the ability to be machine like when playing in the pontential "banana skin"" matches and this is where we seem to fall. In the Premiership we have taken 10 points out of a possible 12 against the other three teams in the top three. This is only to be tarnished by silly results in the games that we really should win.

You gotta love our Justin, and he is totally correct about us being on a par with the others... although history will always remember the champion, the margin between us and those above is much slimmer than it may appear which is why I also feel excited about next year, and even for this year, to get within spitting (literally) distance of the muckers in blue above us in the table.

Bottom line, put the ball in the net when we get the chances, we'll be well up there.

Yeah Andy, to be honest I didnt think highly of his abilities, but been very impressed with him this season. Plus he is making all the right noises. Actually if you compare the stats between Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of goals scored and conceded so far, you will see what he's talking abt.

but England still scored and won!

"but England still scored and won!" That my old son is why you are a spud and we are Gooners.

That wasn't anywhere near sport at the highest level. It was absolute s***e. I guess you are looking for a bite with your assumption that Arsenal would have drawn the game? You aren't getting one, so there.

Whilst we are on the subject of managers. Is Elmo Putney the world best tactician or an absolute moron in Spuds eyes this week??

i take it you refer to big martin Jol? If so, i can only speak for myself, and he is neither. And in light of that jibe,(if it was one) i would like to point out that whilst some Spurs fans are very fickle, they do not have a Monopoly. I recall some very disgruntled customers on here after your triple cup exit a couple of weeks back.

intact sorry

Obviously, as you can also infer from my previous post, that depends entirely on the individual. To suggest otherwise would be....... well... racist ;-)

Everton's tactics were spot on. The time wasting really grated though (I'm talking about the home game here, not the recent crushing defeat), the problem is with us. I've got no problem with teams being defensive, what I despise is the time wasting and the violence. It's just every time it happens to us, we're supposed to accept that it's part of the English game. So Gmast does Eboue with a poor tackle, no booking, we're told to shut up. Barton treads on Mendes, a booking. Redknapp complains, gets charged with misconduct. Morgan punches van Persie, Andy Gray says, "that's part of the game" we're told to shut up and that we're just whingeing foreigners who can't cope with the British game. I guess I'm saying, after listening to the likes of Keys and his Murdoch clones at Sky castigate us for not embracing violence, it was nice to see the England team on the end of it. I got *****ed off at the Andorrans as a football fan, their antics were a disgrace and I don't want to see that. But I think they proved a point that it's annoying as hell when you have to put up with teams playing like that against you. Cole clearly didn't like it and Gerrard's, ahem, "loss of balance" in the area was pathetic. Just as Bridge's reactions against Eboue (who deserved red nonetheless) were lamentable, but those players get no criticism.

"I know where you live" Classic!!

Good analogy Jacky. Are you positive you're a spud??

Should said idiot try to cave your head in, surely you would want the police to punish said yobbo appropriately? I know what my reaction would be if a copper said to me, "So you've got a broken jaw? Boo hoo, get on with it you fancy dan. In my day..........."

yes, LD in an ideal world. But....

HAHAHA, i wont bother with the backlash after you invited it but just laugh. Speaking of embracing violence didnt we do that against Chelsea (supposedly) and get 3 red cards a total of 10 games banned and 100k fine. By the way has any one noticed that Stevie G is diving a lot more often these days?

Stevie G doesn't dive Ozi because he is English. It is merely gamesmanship.

you were insured! "thats more than lucky"

Sorry boys not meaning to be offensive but i dont understand this attitude of getting all official about sporting incidents. That is just part and parcel of the game down here, even football. In a game about 2 years ago at the start of the match a bloke from the other team was off the field tying his boots when the wistle blew, we kicked off, past out to the wing and as our winger took off down the flank with the ball the guy tying his boots flew straight onto the pitch with a studs up tackle and broke my mates leg, bone out and all; Cisse style. Everyone piled in, three red cards a lot of cuts, bruises, black eyes and bloody noses, my mate was in a wheel chair for three weeks but thats all it was. No aftermath, no police, no extended suspensions, no hunting eachother down in pubs. What happens on the field/pitch stays on the pitch down here, thats all there is too it.

erm cos if i punched someone in the temple and they died on the pitch they bloody well would stay there i reckon. You can't use a sports pitch as some sort of lawless haven where thugs rule, and the idea of the game is lost. Also, if a tackle puts you out of work, you dont get paid over here if you are self employed. I think you need to stop confusing aussie rules and football. I am not trying to be offensive, but i find what you just wrote to be faintly ridiculous. ( I dont want this to turn into a Harry style insult slinging match either)

Ozi, when your mate's leg got broken, were you playing Blackburn in some kind of pre season friendly?

I would say that was the convict in you Ozi, but it is a dangerous subject to broach. Only kidding...HONEST.

A bit different, OziG?? No offence mate, but that was an understatement of huge proportions :).

I'm with jacky and hatespur. Having played cricket for most of my life, which is a no-contact sport, and never doing enough on a football field to be tackled :), I cant really understand excessive violence on the pitch like u described, Ozi.

I think the lack of proper football is getting to us all Ozi.

What is this, a love in? for gds sake someone get SH and the illiterate cusop and we can all have a giggle! I'd even settle for Mr Commonsense! sorry jacky I like the things you post and you seem like a good bloke but thats not we want from our favourite Nieghbours.... we want mentallists, bring back Sir Harry!!

Pretty much! or if they're Alan Pardew!!

Kenny lunt or Lenny Kunt? will that do?

see jacky even when you try you can't get me worked up like the others.... you haven't even called me a racist yet let alone threatened me with the sack!! Sorry fella but your just not that much of a d*c*head... now by the time monday comes I want to see the word pikey and scum in everyone of your posts and I want you to refer to me as "the author"!! Jeez, call yourself a lillywhite!

why is S P O O K a rude word!

Cynical hatespur but the evidence speaks for itself.... some kind of elaborate scam you think?!

getting there! I still dont feel the hate bubbling through though...

Scunthorpe have more weapons in their armory compared to your under-achieving teapots.

by that i mean a club of your great stature should be winning things. Now you have a stadium to keep up with the others, you have no excuse not to win the league.

bu*ger it, the spuddy bast*rd is right!

couldn't agree more... the fact that the competition is stronger than it has ever been before doesn't help either! Hate to sound like a scouser but NEXT YEAR!

Kenny. "NEXT YEAR" haha, the immortal last words of a Spurs fan. Now who is in disguise?

I know, my head is hung in shame as I sit here typing!

Just say we had have won the CC and then didnt win anything next year the same people who bay for Wenger or Henry's blood this year would be doing it then, saying the CC is a nothing trophy (which is right but they wouldve loved it at the time). they'd probably still be doing it if we one the CL last year, they are ungrateful, glory hunters. Something that could never be said of yourself jacky (or any spurs fan really). But who cares, *****em' i say. By the way did anyone read Edelmans comments? What do you recon?

Who gives a flying f*** about foreign fans. If they supported a club in their own country they wouldn't be foreign would they?? I for one think that Arsenal have now got too many clingon supporters that 'joined' when we were doing well.

hatespur - guilty as charged :).

I've got heaps of mates that go for clubs like Everton, Fulham, Newcastle, Leeds, Sunderland, QPR, West Ham even Spurs. I know people that have gone for Chelsea since well before they were succesful. Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, Dundee, Parma, Swansea. The only reason i went for Arsenal was cos when I was like 4 I liked the name, Arsenal Gunners - You know when your a kid. I just stuck with it.

And hatespur, when your team is in a different continent, there is no problem whatsoever keeping an eye on your local team and watching a foreign one.

Kevin, barnet (my local club) have a scandinavian supporters club and we've never one anything!

Kev. Re Notts forest. thats prob cos they won the european cup twice.

Disclaimer: It wasn't the intention of the author to upset all things foreign and the author would like to make it clear that he was indeed joking and will apologise if any of the author's comments caused offence or anger towards said author.

Hatespur, I've been supporting arsenal since the same age as you then. So what if i dont live in London, whats the difference between me supporting them or an Irish gooner like Arseblogger or someone from a town with a s***e team like Blackpool

ozi gunner well said !!! totally agree with u !!

I accept the authors apology, but i thought the author was LD

Woah, I'm staying well out of this one!

None taken as well.

Welll i'm off now, tchau.

kevin, I make you right, but why do you have a cup named after a breed of dog?

Ozi, that is them. Balck and white right?????

Yeah Collingwood Magpies. But i have now been enlightened and from here on they shall be known as Collingwood Hotspur.

That is a real coincidence then as it was my mate's local team then I think he hailed from Collingwood. Small world.

Oh maybe. All I know is that it was his local team and he went to all their home games.

hoyte is a T W A T.

of course you are on par with them it wasnt that long ago you were winning the league

whatever you say ozi. deny it all we want. just cos the gooners had some success in the last 20 years, doesn't mean football didn't exist long before then. we had a quiet period but now things are returning to normal and it wont be long before we challenge the top 4. CL prepare yourself for THE MIGHTY SPURS!!!