Football Season is well under way

Well we are into week three of the football season and I have not made any mention of Spurs so far due to my holiday, It has definitely been a mixed bag so far with a Draw against Man City followed by Defeat by Young Boys and finally our first win against Stoke, so I will do a quick review.

The Man City game was a very frustrating match as I feel we were the better team for a vast portion of the match however I did question last season if it was in fact our strikers who are making our opposition goal keepers look good, at least three times last season it was said that we dominated but the Keeper had the game of his life, it leads me to suspect that we are slightly too obvious in our attacks and perhaps we need a striker who can do the unexpected.

Our first experience of champions league football was definitely not a happy one with the synthetic pitch causing us more trouble than we expected, we were 3-0 down by the 30th minute and all seemed lost, luckily we pulled it back to 3-2 which gives us a great chance however the real cost could well be our injury list with Keane, Defoe, Pavlychenko and Modric all out injured we were seriously short on attacking options for the trip to Stoke.

The Stoke game was again looking to be frustrating as we simply couldn’t find away through the breakthrough eventually coming from Garath Bale’s face, some sloppy defending let Stoke back in with an equaliser before Bale scored what will probably be the goal of the week, There was controversy when Crouch cleared of the line after the goal appeared to go in. in my opinion it was over the line and should have been a goal, however there was a foul leading up to it so in fact I feel the actual result should have been a free kick to us before the ball even came close, but I think we will have to put it down to a bad 5 minutes refereeing. But we had our first win and with tonights visit of Young Boys it really could be a turning point in our season, if we win tonight the confidence will be back, we will be in the group stage so the defeat will be irrelevant and we will still be unbeaten in the league, lose tonight and it is all different the news will be filled of only one win, out of the Champions League etc… so we will see.

Champions League fever comes to N17

Tonight is the kick off of Tottenham champions league campaign, the first match should not be to difficult as we are playing again Young Boys of Bern, who despite having plenty of Champions League Qualifier experience have never made the Group Stage.

There are a couple of concerns, there always are for Spurs, this time we have to worry about an astro-turf pitch and our simple lack of experience of champions league football - also there may be a touch of over confidence which could be an issue but I think we should be ok, oh well we'll have our answer in a few hours.