Every Monday the Manager will be looking back over the weekend. Who shined, who stunk and what it
all might it portend going forward. If anything.
Tottenham Hotspur 2 - 1 Liverpool
Liverpool just looked flat. I don't know if it's the Alonso sale or Gerrard's injury or Palacios
throwing himself about, but Liverpool never really threatened.
If you enjoy those 15 half-time minutes when the subs come trotting out and half-heartedly ping
the ball around, you'll love tonight. Pav, Bentley, Hutton and Bale are all in line to start, as
‘Arry rings the changes with half an eye (in a manner of speaking) on Saturday's game.
League or Cups?
There are lies, damned lies and statistics, but a scoreline never spoke a truer word than
Everton 0-0 Tottenham yesterday. We edged the first half, they edged the second half and neither
‘keeper had a serious save to make.
There were some interesting sub-plots though. ‘Arry Redknapp has developed a serious allergy
to change of any form, either before or during games.
emSmoggie, Tranporter Bridge, James Cook, Paul Daniels, drug dealers, Roy Chubby Brown, youths with
no front teeth, town not a city, the Parmo, Chris Rea - can you hear me, Chris Rea! Your boys took
one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of beating!/embr /br /br /Four goals. Clean sheet.
Some more than decent passing and movement.
With Man City brushed aside, left to nurse the paper cuts from their own gargantuan chequebooks,
Spurs toddle up to Lancashire this weekend-traversing through gritting lorries and blizzards- to
take on Blackburn Rovers. Painful memories for this one, as last year, in the same fixture, Rovers
somehow took all three points.
