Football Focus pundit Garth Crooks has praised the performances of Martin Skrtel in light of the
towering centre-half's superb individual effort at the weekend.
The Slovakian international scored Liverpool's second goal during the 2-0 win against Aston Villa
and the 27-year-old has been one of Kenny Dalglish's most consistent performers.
Football Focus pundit Garth Crooks has praised the performances of Liverpool centre-half Daniel
Agger this season.
The Danish international has been keeping Liverpool hero Jamie Carragher out of the side, with
Kenny Dalglish persisting instead with a centre-back partnership of Martin Skrtel and Agger.
Garth Crooks's team of the week
Do you agree with our football expert's side this week?
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By Chris Wright
What's that I smell? Is it cabbage? It smells a bit like cabbage...*sniff*...mixed
with...creosote? It's...it's...PROPER FOOTBALL! Proper football is back! Enough of your rubbish
inter-lull nonsense, the time has come to hunker down in your armchair, set your phaser to 'slob',
grab a room-temperature Tizer and spend the entire weekend driving a wedge between yourself and
your loved ones studiously watching triffic match after top top match, highlight after highlight,
cringing as the results pour in and Garth Crooks continues to splutter and froth over something so
insignificant it'd make your mind pop if you even began to know what he was up-in-arms
about.
Wolves v Spurs has thrown up its fair share of classic encounters over the years and for
Tottenham, Molineux has generally been a difficult place to travel to. There's often plenty of
goals too as last year's 3-3 draw underlines.
When you think of memorable games from the past, two will always come to mind – (for Spurs
fans anyway).
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"Something has to be done and it has to be done now," says Garth Crooks
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Wolves recent success is very much due to a team effort, but never the same a team is made up by
individual players whose importance and skills differ from week to week. This week Garth Crooks of
the BBC has picked two Wolves players into his Team Of The Week: Not bad for a small-town [...]
The Wolves ace striker Steven Fletcher got into Garth Crooks' team of the week for the opening
round of the season. He is placed upfront between Luis Suarez, Liverpool and Fernando Torres,
Chelsea. Good company! Crooks comments to the choice on the BBC website: "Fletcher's at it again.
Great goal and a very brave header.
Fed up with the brain-dead, sound bite-honking dullards at the forefront of BBC Sport? Then why
not turn them into a card game?
BBC Sport. Let's face it, it's basically dead. Once an opulent Roman empire of punditry with Des
Lynam as its silver-dusted Caesar – in the past ten years it has crumbled.
Fed up with the brain-dead, sound bite-honking dullards at the forefront of BBC Sport? Then why
not turn them into a card game?
BBC Sport. Let's face it, it's basically dead. Once an opulent Roman empire of punditry with Des
Lynam as its silver-dusted Caesar – in the past ten years it has crumbled.
Spurs and Arsenal have thrown up some memorable encounters over the years and the two most
recent league fixtures have added in their share of drama, stunning goals and more importantly,
three points for Spurs.
When you ask many Tottenham fans about their favourite game against Arsenal, they point to the
4-4 at The Emirates in 2008.
He'll have to make it on to the pitch first, but if Jermain Defoe scores on Saturday against his
former team, he will join an elite band of Spurs players who have scored 100 goals or more for the
club.
Only 15 players have achieved this so far and if Defoe becomes the 16th he will join illustrious
names such as Jimmy Greaves, Martin Chivers, Bobby Smith, Glenn Hoddle and many other great
servants from the past.
