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Match Report

This New Tottenham

Liverpool 0 Tottenham 0, and if we’re anywhere near honest with ourselves, not the result we expected. Given Liverpool’s recent resurgence, Tottenham’s lengthy injury list and Harry Redknapp’s personal difficulties, noone would have been surprised if the home side had run out comfortable winners. Sadly for the Liverpool faithful, who were expecting an inspirational return of the suspended Luis Suarez quite distinct from a wild kick at Scott Parker which earned him a yellow card soon after entering the fray, it wasn’t to be and they were left to be mighty thankful that Gareth Bale failed to put away a golden chance that would have left them, undeservedly, with nothing at all. But that is the stuff of match reports. This particular review is more about this new Tottenham, who turned up at Anfield without their manager, missing Aaron Lennon, Younes Kaboul, Rafael Van der Vaart, Sandro and Jermaine Defoe and with a bench bordering on the unknown. Continue reading

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Nothing Proven and Nothing Gained

Well, this one certainly lived up to it’s billing, didn’t it? The two pretenders, lying first and third respectively went head to head today and served up a treat. Possibly the game of the season so far. All in all a great advert for English football though not, I suspect, for English refereeing. Howard Webb did wonderfully well in terms of letting a fascinating match run it’s course, but it has to be said that his use of cards was woefully inconsistent and that he missed two incidents which might possibly have changed the course of the game. Continue reading

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two dropped or one gained?

Some would argue that if you take the lead twice you should go on and win the game. Others would say that a point away against a form team is a good result but which one is right? Before the game the majority of SpursĀ  fans I know would have been happy with a point so why are there some disgruntled posts around the web tonight?

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