Good morning.
Here are the pick of the Premier League predictions for game week 26. A week where theoretically we could go 3rd. I do hope this crisis under that Chelsea reject, Mr Bean Powerpoint twit keeps going.
Steffen Freund walks into his dressing room. A sultry saxophone is playing in the distance. There’s more than hint of 9½ Weeks about the vibe as a delicate breeze teases at his net curtains. The lighting is best described as, early morning smoky. He slides open a magnificent all white wardrobe door almost Japanese in style; to reveal an inch perfectly spaced hanging rail of tapered 1980′s tracksuit bottoms. He takes the pair to what his farthest right.
Just under his breath he says, ‘Es tut mir leid für den anderen.’ Tottingham 2 Newcastle 1
‘Waiter, more bread, table 4. And hurry!’ The racist chavs will be out in force today. Not so much to voice their support for their team, rather to show their contempt for Rafa. A lunch mob zeal with an Embassy Superkings motif. Chelsea won’t win the league. Which is good for football. What isn’t good for football though is a fan base that hasn’t the balls to confront the owner.
My view is in a generation or twos time it will be decided that Roman’s money breathed life into that club, then suffocated it. Chelsea 4 Wigan 1
Carrow Road will be rocking today. Yokels of all shapes and sizes giving praise to the goddess Delia and canaries of gold. Clipboard Chris has we are opted for the Etch A Sketch, for today’s game. It comes in a purposeful black to denote it’s primary role as a business tool and Staples in Saxmundham released a press statement this morning to the effect that they had ordered faux leather slip cases from the manufacturer, but had been let down on a shopping time-line.
Martin Jol spent last night working off pre-match nerves by doing 6000 press-ups in the breakfast room of his B&B which was specifically sealed off from other guests from 1930hrs last night by the owners of ‘The Maltings’ in nearby Sprowston. Norwich 2 Fulham 2
Arry Redschnapps will be in Wales today managing QPRball who are a football club. The only problem is, they are rubbish at playing football. Swansea have all they need to absorb the school playground boot it and charge after it tactics and if they can be resolute and keep the ball on the floor, this could be a high scoring affair. Swansea 4 QPR 0
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Theoretically?
Crucial day today.
BIOYGCs
It’s time Wigan started their recovery.
As for Chelscum – they hate playing at home.
Could be hilarious.
I’m worried about Sissiko.
I need him to have a quiet game. But he’s a bit if a beast.
‘Arry didn’t think Michu would get in our team – so wasn’t interested.
Does he just speak to piss us all off?
Sissiko?
Yerp. Him.
floyd mayweather should stop ducking manny pacquiao. if this fight doesnt happen it will tarnish both of their legacies.
Wot da f*ck!?
Bale up top please with Herr Holtby behind him and Billy G to partner Jan his inside frogginess might be a bonus
Not seen the teams yet but got a bad feeling about today.
Barcodes have got virtually all their unfit players back, they strengthened in the transfer window, they have a lot of competition for places and all have something to prove.
Hope I am wrong.
I like Pardew,he is a clever manager.Loses players and somehow comes back,loses games and somehow comes back.We are formidable but only when we actually try.
It wont be easy 2-1 is a fair estimation.We are at home and should win.
I know that everybody is going to stand up,well most,for Gazza but its time Tottenham stood up for themselves and gave somthing to the fans.
If Newcastle block the lanes for Bale Lennon counter attacks,I have some faith that now we can do it through the middle,strikers or not. I hope Holtby starts and creates that space inside for even Bale to run onto.
2-1 is fai.
I like Wigan,they have nothing but have a go.They play for Martinez but the ask them to get any result against Chelsea will be difficult. The fans and players may not give all for Rafa but Lampard seems like a superhero these days.
They really have too much but wont flatter Rafa 3-0
Norwich and Fulham are both coulda shoulda woulda
Is Berba playing?
1-1 is fair
Jenas is playing for QPR are you not impressed,Harry?
I can tell you one thing.One thing he can do is rip a 30 yarder
I can see QPR holding their own in this.
Samba has presence and will manhandle of few of the welsh wizards and Harry really has no fear going to Wales.Infact he likes it.Its near Dorset.
1-2 to QPR.
1-2 QPR
I dislike Alan Pardeux with a vengeance there is just something really unpleasant about his demeanour, he has a totally misplaced smugness that grates.
I am putting this out there because the Liverpool infested media are winding me right up: Liverpool, shit? Discuss
I tried to leave a message on SSN about their attitude and favouritism toward the Sky 4 – which still includes L’pooh.
What gives with them?
Guess what – it wasn’t published, even though it was inoffensive and I thought, relevant.
I actively delete inoffensive and relevant comments on here. It’s the way forward.
Harry that was offensive! Wait…we can use you today…
You’d be banned.
Gerrard is back at his best (its funny that him and Lampard are peaking at their peak at the same time)
Suarez is up there with the very best,Surridge is looking sharp using talents that he never did with Chelsea.
Liverpool are good and will march up the table I think.
Oh and while I’m at it, Newcastle fans, overrated? Discuss
While I was working on building sites in London,I found the Geordie lads by far the friendliest bunch and a good laugh.Whereas Yorkies just moaned about money beer and anything Southern.I just hid my tools when Scousers were about.
Don’t start me on southerners…..never have any money, can’t take their beer etc. etc….
Ade on the bench
Sadly Dempsey isn’t.
Vert on the bench as well,AVB getting ballsy
All is OK, Ade’s on the bench, he will save the day.
So our 2 best defenders out for 2 of our worst. Sounds great.
Yeahhhhhhhh
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
That’s Krul

I’ll take that but boy was that a crappy wall by the Toon.
lovely freekick
that could only be stopped by all the wall jumping then you’re vulnerable to a low driven shot
sweet start, we’ll need 3-4 today me thinks
Gee Ronnie; Holtby isn’t perfect.
Watch him play off the ball,always looking for space,passes it off and finds a position
he should have scored two already today, I hope our strikers’ coach hasn’t been training him
Three
Yeah anyone without a 100% goals/shots ratio is a flop
don’t get your knickers in a twist I was only joshing dear ron
instead of playing sillay arse why dont you look at where Holtby runs you may learn something instead of joshing around
no rather josh
I don’t need to learn ron, I already know enough to get by nicely
holtby plays with his head up, potentially a great player
Good.
I like my saturdays to be aggravation free.But feel free to criticize if its warranted.
I have to seperate the shmucks from l;egitimate comments you understand
better mark than play the offsiude trap
that’s caulker and walker both been dropped by their marks in last 5 mins
concentration levels from both those players is very poor
Agree about both but why does no one ever spot that Dawson ball watches at times and the defender either side then drops out of position to cover the man Dawson has left.
The problem is that walker and caulker are not bright enough to call out or do something about it they chase around like jack Russels. they both need a defensive leader keeping it all together
caulker is still learning the game, the williams lad at swansea made him look better than he is
we continually fail to cut out crosses which leads to goals, our shape goes way too easily
Its difficult to mark well when you are constantly thinking of stepping up
Not if you are good
Fuk
Fcuk, deflection wrong foots Hugo
Which doesn’t excuse the piss poor marking
our defence looks shit
Its not great thats for sure
Our back four look a bit ‘afterthoughtish.’
with 6 in midfield I’m surprised we’re getting opened up so easily
chuck the big lazy (unt on and tell him to run about a bit
Yeah, Clint looks wiped out after a tough qualifier and a lot of travel.
we play better with strikers don’t we?
dembele and lennon need to get into the game with some end product
Our back 4 have a collective IQ of 7.8. They need a leader to marshall them a richard gough/ledley king type
the 3 young ens have talent but no natural positional sense. Dawson has heart and stuff but when his concentrating or chasing something down he forgets about the the other 3
it will be nice for them to mark instead of every fucker watching the ball
Who said dembele was good? He’s not
I think he is good but i find he loses the ball a lot.His pass percentage is good because of all the short balls,but he does push the ball too far ahead of him sometimes and loses it in key positions
He isn’t good: he’s excellent… he’s had a dip in form over the past 3-4 weeks, but he’s a great player… just keep watching…
Dip in form…….otherwise known as P***** taking over
covering him from Sandro…….Dembele doesn’t trust him and rightly so, he feels vulnerable now along with the back 4.
We may struggle second half in CM as Parker tires and slows.
Sandro a big miss today.
Ade for Dempsey second half. Harsh on Dempsey but he is not a centre forward.
Holtby looks more than useful, Dembele a bit too laid back today.
Our defence all over the place for their goal.
Dempsey barely qualifies as a footballer, let alone a centre forward.
Except when he is playing Man U.
Started off on fire, then turned to shit once the ball left the ground.
If you watch Holtby he is always running into space finding open positions.This is critical to get him the ball and play off of him as it always pulls defenders out of position.Swinging it across the defence just firm up
It is an option to the counter.
Instead of a counter or short passes acroiss the field going nowhere,the defence will split right open
Like a grapefruit
if you say so.Its more like a kjnife through a coconut
I disagree, definitely a grapefruit
Problem appears to be in midfield. Specifically, there’s is much better than ours.
their forwards look a bit better too tbh
they could of scored 2/3 with a bit more luck/composure
that said holtby and dempsey had 2/3 chances as well
Forwards?
Anyone seen adebeyor?? last I heard he was riding and elephant wearing pants on his head with two pencils stuffed up his nostrils
Sky are reporting that he is at white hart lane right now but they didnt get any tansfer deadline day reports right so that must be wrong.
OK then
One Man Team!
Sure is the way Bale made the save took the goal kick passed to himself to score was genius
Without him the score would appear to be 0-1, making all of the above null and void, Mr. Pedant!
She call me Mr Pedantic,
Say me fantastic………….
Yse it was pedantic but
“without him the score would appear to be 0-1″
thats a very silly statement if he was out there on his own it would more than 0-1 and if Lloris did not save from ameoba at the end it would have been 2-2.
If no one passed him the ball it would have been 0-1 as well.
Nothing personal 3L’s I just hate the 1 man team argument, when he was in less form earlier in the season and we were losing all them games on the bounce it was down to dembele being injured (Accused of being a 1 man team) well who is the 1 man team then, its a very simplistic assessment?
Take Van Perverts goals away from amn u they arent top are they a 1 man team?
Freund is going to kill AVB with his celebration one day
strikers just get in the way.
How does Caulker not score that!
By heading the ball outside of the white metal frame with a net hanging off it
Lennon is defending better than the defence
Lennon always helps out that way. An underrated part of his game
Come on, boys – let’s put this one to bed for a change…
Gonna be, what- seven minutes of added time?
More, now – f*cking cnut, Cabaye – that is a straight red card, FFS! They should be down to 10, instead we have to play the last 10 minutes with our playmaker half-crocked…
So close!!!
Why has AVB brought back the squatting routine?
That was a shitty challenge
Red really
Very late
It’s been said many times but thank god for Hugo
thank fuk for Garth Bale :Tired: :Tired:
Great 3 points against a resurgent Barcodes side… Bale is a BEAST, but Dembele makes us tick, so I hope he’s fit for Thursday…
Sloppy and unfocused but did enough to deserve the points.
Stat for all the Dawson haters.
Last 15 premier league games Dawson has started we are undefeated.
If anyone says we should cash in on Gareth Bale i’m prepared to strongle them.
Special mention for Dempsey as well. For all his midweek excursions, never stopped running.
Ade could learn something.
Dawson had a ton of blocks today.
I couldn’t fault Ade’s effort out there
To be fair, he was pretty immense in the second half, when he dropped back into MF… left Ade a bit isolated: hoping to better things from him on Thursday… after another “rest”…
For his minutes on the pitch, couldn’t fault Ade. But he should have started with the current striker situation. He didnt cos he was fannying around after acon. Dempsey isnt the same class but his attitude is never questionable.
Deserved the points. Patchy in places but had more chances to make it 3-1 than they did to make it 2-2. It would be nice to win a game by 2 clear goals 1 day though. Maybe the goons?
Just saw a replay of Bale’s chances and we were the length of Krul’s finger from winning 5-1
the boy’s a absolute gem, his finish for the winning goal was pure class
spurs need to get top 3/4 and push on, keeping players of bale’s ability has to be our priority
Just seen the best performance from a Spurs player for a long time.
Wonderful.
It brought a lump to my throat.
What else can I say?
So QPR are fighting?
I’m beginning to hate QPR.
They are not fighting.
They don’t need to fight on those wages…including the manager.
I really really really want QPRhahaha to go down.
Bet you love Bale now H. 3 games him and Lennon were brilliant. Can’t wait for your write up mate.
Thought they would get something today. Overestimated Redknapp and underestimated Laudrup
Arse down to 10 men. Come on Mackems!
C’MON WIGWAM!
BOLLOX!
Feared the worst at half time but we turned it round second half and were more likely to score a third than they were to equalise.
Really impressed with the effort and pressure on the ball when Barcodes had it.
Excellent team effort and Bale’s performance the icing on the cake.
What was the spat between the 2 managers at the end ?
AVB should have used his Ginger Ninja skills and fly kicked the fucker into next week.
Pardew’s got form. Ron likes him. I think he’s a grade A twat!
He left Wet Spam after allegedlly showing far too much interest in one of his players wives.
There again, I loved it when he had that spat with Aunie Whinger.
BMJ should have strongled that twat when he had the chance!
Mus does the strongelling round here, think he’s strongelled a few horses for Findus recently, may be keeping a low profile at the moment.
Didn’t see the game today but great result
……….and good forecasting by you HH in this article – impressive!
Just a lucky guess, law of averages said he had to get one right sooner or later.
Hey, he got all 4 match results right and was pretty close with the scores!
I’m only winding him up.
Well done Ade in setting up that winner for Baler. Holtby needs to settle down a notch, 3 first half clear chances wasted as he didn’t even get any of them on target. A little more composure required.
Magic from the Boy Bale, lovin’ it, who needs a striker ?
We do Raz. Bale is our goal threat. When he is used in that floating role during the match he just dribbles through the midfield and defence. Defo needed a striker to ADD to Bales contribution. So happy with the win, even though we never looked totally comfortable. But Newcastles midfield hustled and harried well.
Adebayor is forgiven. If he wasn’t there today, then the abuse he recieved over the past two days would have been totally justified. However, we all went overboard regarding his ‘absence’. He played o.k when he appeared. It was a needed win, our upcoming fixtures are tough.
Holtby yes missed three but he waas constantly moving into space making himself available and on the defensive side pressuring their defence. He did a ton of running and was guilty of not scoring at least one of those.If they actually went through him more,pass and run,then we would have got even more chances.
Bale was incredible though,thats for sure.
Our defence in the first half were very iffy.They are no marking well just thinking about the line.
He did play a lovely 1-2 with Bale in the first minute, Bale sent a beaut of a cross in which Dempsey just failed to connect with. Holtby seems to want to make things happen, thats great, could link well with Bale/Lennon.
Yes I hope he keeps this going.A goal or two would be good but Im sure he will get that going too.
He can find the space and push off and find new space.Good vision the boy has.
Aaron is getting better and better, great tracking back, improved immeasurably this season. Parker is running far to many circles in midfield and it’s catching as Dembele has picked up the habit. By all means protect the ball but this tactic slows our play down to a crawl. Stop it now !
Hartley agrees
I agree with Billy
I agree with you Stu
Harts is sitting on the fence regarding Parker
.
He now realises that Livermore is hovering around the first team and now cherishes him.
I like Livermore, he does as instructed which helps the team……I’d pick him ahead of “super Scotty P*****” every day of the week…..
…b*llocks the third — I’m gunning for second…
B*llocks the third … isn’t he the king of Ruritania?
Man City losing 2-1 to southampton? It Was 2-0. Southampton went 1 nil up. Before that it was 0-0. Crazy game soccer.Crazy
Southampton 3-1 Oil F.c
Jamie Carragher has retired …
… step forward Gareth Barry.
We could use some of that composure in front of goal
Classy finish
Does Barry have a bet on a Southampton win? Send in Europol.
Nah he’s English. English players are whiter than driven snow
While on the subject of classy fings, Fiona Bruce did fart on News at Ten but the u tube clip makes it seem like a full rip when it was really a squeakey bum slip.
She can fart in my face anytime
What are the odds on Mancini pitching up at Second Hand Fridge next year?
18/1 at Razspur365
“He’s very good at servicing people” – Stan Collymore on Ricky Lambert.
Well, you know all about that, don’t you Mr Collymore!!
FW2 : Earlier
Blackburn 10/11 W1-0
Arsenal 10/11 W 1-0
Sheff Utd 13/10 W 2-1
Cardiff 10/11 D 0-0 £20 Quad beat
Chesterfield W 2-0
Gillingham W 1-0
Northampton W 3-1
Port Vale D 0-0 £20 Quad beat
5:00 KO
Genk 10/11 W 2-0
Juventus W 2-0
Besiktas W 3-1 £30 treb paid £168
7:00 KO
Mechelin 5/6
PSV 8/13
Nice 23/20
Troyes 10/11 £12 Quad if it comes up £145:87. How did you go today ?
I got £182:23 off the treble, just lodged to my account, better than expected.
City game just over beaten 3-1 we could even get second, magic. Well done the Saints.
At the mo I can’t stop winning Raz,I’m not staking much,Last night I had the 2-2 at Watford,also Ross county,Almeria,Auxerre and Nimes,all won.
Today my main acca went down,but I stuck a tenner on a long shot treble and they all came home at just under 50/1Yeovil,Bristol Rovers,and Burton.tonight I’ve had a good go at a French trable Nancy ,Nice and Valciennes.
I need Nice and Troyes to score but there’s only 18 mins left.
Glad to hear you’re doing well, best of luck.
Ah well Raz,Tomorrows another acca day
Good tipping HH,credit where its due
Fw2 can you not edit that, you’re taking brown nosing to a new low !
I’d say your on the WKD,you old bitch.
Yea gettin quite pissed now, congratulsations.
Nipped over to Tesco there to get the Booze in, the women like those WKD things, i saw a Rum called CockSpur just wondered what it was like, anybody know, they have a 70cl bottle reduced from £15:50 to £12, i suppose if you put Coke in it must be palatable. Got a bottle of Glava For myself to celebrate going third then fourth.
You Tesco Tear-away you. Pussers Rum all day. Stick on Django Unchained, that will help polish it off.
Just reckon it must be like Captain Morgan but a bit rougher, i’ll stick to the Glava it’s magic, they’re watching that Sh*** Take me out. As long as i get peace to watch MOTD on the big screen.
It’s ruff but does the bizzo
TBH you should give Head to Head with Lawro with picks like that , you got crystal balls ?
Go head to head
Give “head to head” just put me off me dinner.
That’s what she said
Billy where did you get that Gravatar ?
It’s the legend that is Peter Cushing from one of the ‘Hammer House of Horror’ tv episodes.
I hear we’ve just signed Gustav Freud.
Gustav Holst wrote the orchestral suite “The Planets” while living in Thaxted in Essex, just before the First World War he taught music at a Girls School in Hammersmith.
Have a look at recent form of the 3 long shots,I nearly put Walsal with them as well,still it would be greedy to moan.(Disregard if not meant for me)
The Sissoko Kid was the first TV series 1956 filmed in colour although most homes had only B&W TV but the quality was better than monochrome. So my Granda says.
Ok Kimosubi
We were like Yanited today, not very fluent but got the job done. Bale was out of this world, the rest were a mix of good and bad. Naughton was hopeless first half, improved as the game went on. Barcodes were fortunate to score, didn’t offer much, thought Walker played well and Dawson was commanding. Onwards and upwards COYS!
Dawsons arse was commanding.
Razspur
February 9, 2013 at 12:07 pm
“All is OK, Ade’s on the bench, he will save the day”
And that ball winning move that confused both Newcastle defenders and let Bale in for the winner saved the day, right on cue.
Tottenham v Man City classic match on ITV 4 HD @ 7:55am, must be the Ricky Villa Cup Final.
The Big Match Revisited from WHL Tottenham v Man City 04/02/1979
That was painfull 0-3 even Steve Perryman had a shocker………forgotten already.
The post-match press conference was totally dominated by questions about Bale. AVB was asked if Spurs are a big enough club to keep Bale. His response inferring that it would be disastrous for the club were Bale to leave pleased me…at least it wasn’t the “every player has his price” cliche. Ginola reckons Bale is wasted on the left and should be given a free role. Bale says he is enjoying his football now…I wonder if this free role might help to keep him happy and at Spurs? COYS!!
I don’t know Bale’s aspirations…but I guess it’s more about football than celebrity or money. I’ve seen a fair few interviews where he seemed deflated with being squeezed out of the game. Not sure he would be a fulcrum in a team of all-stars such as PSG, Madrid or Barcelona. If the coaching staff were to find a solution to allow a freer role at Spurs….it might just be important to him for staying. It’s speculating I know.