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Oh dear - Spurs are Spurs after all

Wednesday, 15th August 2007

I went to the first Spurs' home game of the season last night. Oh dear. Truly awful stuff. Everton thoroughly deserved their win. 

That said, as a commenter put it on a Spurs site I look at:

We watched our 3rd choice Centre Back limp off after the 17th minute leaving our 4th and 5th choice Centre Backs. We had our 4th choice Left Back (who in reality is our 2nd choice Right Back) and our 2nd choice Right Winger.
Stalteri and Gardner are shockingly bad defenders, who would struggle in the Championship. They are now the best we have, given the injuries to King, Dawson, Lee, Kaboul, Bale and Assou-Ekotto. Without some of them back, we are stuffed. With them, things should get back on track.

Then again, Spurs wouldn't be Spurs if we didn't miss our expectations by a country mile.

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