If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. The path of least resistance is lined with pretty flowers, warmed by rays of hazing sunshine and frequented by the birds off the Cadbury’s Flake ads. Well maybe I made all of that up. A career in print journalism does beckon after all!
In the absence of any actual news we righteous Lilywhites are beset on all sides by is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of two bob hacks too eager to pen the Dear John that the boy Bale will hopefully never actually compose to us.
The Daily Star in fairness have at least tried to make their tale sound convincing. And if you were about 8 years old, it would probably appear to have some gravitas. After all this is printed a newspaper that costs 30p or something and the telly programmes in.
The figure they have plucked from their posteria is £40m, and to make it sound good they decided to weave a bit of the old hire purchase factor in to add the lure of it all. It’s a £30m down payment with a further £10m over the next four years. Which is some piece of inside information to be peddling in February.
So there we have it, Bale’s bailed. Enjoy the next few months, ‘cos that’s yer lot. First Dunblane, then Diana, there was Madeleine McCann of course and who can forget the Pope being blown up by street cleaners. Oh yes. If you want to see into the future then it’s the Express Group you’ll need.
I thought Spain was bankrupt.I mean according to the financial rags they are.You move three pages back the the sports page and you see all they want to do is spend.I mean dont they have any Galacticos bankers like Daniel Levy?????
Spain really should sign Daniel Levy instead of Bale. They would get someone who would balance their books.
Remember Spain there are no Free Kicks. It will dip and move and eventually get you in the bollocks.
I think that should read ‘I now know why Spain is bankrupt’ but is any different to Utd racking up a mountain of debt yet still paying vast sums for players they clearly can’t afford?
How happy is this man?
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/design05/images/2012/1218/arsenewengersmile20121124_576x324.jpg
The proctologist’s poster boy.
I’ve also officially given up using that phrase in my everyday conversation. In fact do any Spurs players have a name without an R or L
saying Spurs must be a real difficult but its worse I think if you are an Arsenal supporter…
“I am an Arsenal sipporter”
“Ah so”
“what did you say mate”
BAE’s middle name is Pierre.
Tough one
How about Walker?
and what about RRolis???????
R’s and L’s are a problem in these parts. I have officially given up informing the masses of the next big thing soon to be plastered on the front cover of footie mags here!!!
Nihonyid try Lennon
Just spat my drink over the counter.
Are you in a hostess bar??? That drink costs more than what it cost for Dempsey and I guess youve had mores shots too
Very clever Ron Yid
No I am not. Just a traditional style counter bar
Preaching to anybody who hasn’t adopted a London team to follow the mighty SPURS!
Good work there!!!!
Spurs japan there somewhereI know there is a Spurs Japan.I bet you once they all see Bale you could sell a million shirts there
Read somewhere that Sir Alex feels he can’t afford to buy back Ronaldo but is prepared to break the Man Utd record to get Baler. Can’t see Daniel dealing with SAF so it’s just more lineage bollox, still it’s either read that or Rafa’s rant, Benitez that is, just why VDV has spoke out baffles me as he shoots himself in the foot, AVB told him he would have to work for his place, he went to Hamburg, injury has blighted his 7 months there.
Why is there a colossal white box above the title in all of your posts? It has one of those “image failed” signs in the middle, and a small tiny title in the top left corner saying: The Gareth Bale Brochure
I get that on Windows PC with Chrome, and Mac with Chrome…
I don’t see it in Firefox or Safari. Let me look into it.
It is a gateway to a parallel universe where Daniel Levy rules and Tottenham are the Supreme Club in the Cosmos, holders of the Tri-Galaxy Cup and running away with the Planetary League by 1882 Decans. Top scorers in all Competitions and with Footballer of the Screthullium for the last 6 Zemars.
Sorry Raz, I just put my knob inside and it wasnt!
I get it on Mac with Safari too…
Harry you remind me of the bloke that owns a cafe and shouts out from the cash desk “2 eggs,bacon,sausages and beans” and then runs to the back and makes it himself. You should say “Our IT department in Seattle is looking into it”
No, you see the guy that parked your car is my brother. And the fella that brought your cases in? It’s astonishing isn’t it?!!
Our IT Dept have shone the light into Gotham’s night sky.
This is typical. Absolutely typical… of the kind of…
ARSE I have to put up with from you people!
You ponce in here expecting to be hand… waited on hand and foot, while I’m trying to run a Blog here! Have you any idea of how much there is to do? Do you ever think of that? Of course not! You’re all too busy sticking your noses into every corner, poking about for things to complain about, aren’t you?….
Well let me tell you something – this is exactly how Nazi Germany started! A lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble! Well, I’ve had fifteen years of pandering to the likes of you, and I’ve had enough! I’ve had it! Come on, pack your bags and get out!
Yes it’s the same on iPhone. Doesn’t bother me though.
Only because you’ve got that Yid in Japan ninja-like zen calm going for you…
That might be true Swido ha ha
The Daily Star….isn’t that one rung down the ladder from Viz?
Viz? I’d say that all newspapers were several rungs down from there.
Is it bring your dog to work today?
I tried but Karren Brady was unavailable
That video just made me hate Ade more and miss defoe.
The video reminded me that Bale hasn’t really got his assists on this season. Maybe that is in small part due to us not having any real strikers for him to assist. The video also reminded me that up until a week or so ago HH and some other bumders were still arguing stubbornly that he isn’t world class.
here he fucking goes again……Look Harry said only that he wasnt world class in assists
Whatever it was, if it wasn’t stupid enough at the time – which it was – it surely looks crazy stupid now.
Everything looks crazy stupid now. Sigg looks like he is on now after 20 minutes of work.I guess you knew that.
We all have opinions on what we see.What Bale has done recently has been earth shattering. If Bale had a few weeks of quiet then what? He would be as quite world class as he is now.
But look its easy being a critic but its always after the event so you cant lose.If you are such a genius please let us know how things turn out before they happen,then you might get some respect around here.
It’s not after the event, it was about a week ago. It didn’t take a genius recognize it then, but perhaps you’d have to be crazy stupid not to.
I’m not looking for your respect Ron, though I often offer you my own.
Lets continue later…te whole discussion about Bale being World class for me was not important.What is important is the impact Bale has on our club and the other players we have and the fear that is beginning to build in our opposition.
I am not concerned about his being sold.Its a non issue right now.
These digs are not good.Lets start attacking issues.
bringing up Harrys blog from last week us just a dig. If you didnt enjoy it you wouldnt be here.Thats the same for all of us.
I enjoy making digs at it.
It’s actually true, I do take a perverse pleasure from pointing out some of HH’s copious inconsistencies and bouts of poor reasoning. Not because I don’t like him, but because it winds up his devotees who seem to go along with everything he says simply because he has his name at the top of the page.
LLL if you convince the followers that there is a new religion LLLology then maybe a bunch will go off and maybe even end up in Jonestown drinking some of that sugar drink you have been making in your attic
If there is a point to my nit-picking and bickering, it is against the notion of mindless following. So I’m not looking to enlist any of my own, thankee.
A loner on a mission
Yeah. That’s the one.
Did you see vdvs goal a week or two ago? The guys a class act but it was a good deal for somone so unfit.The boy bale won’t bale,This season anyway.
Bale leaving or not depends on a few things.
If we don’t get CL, I think he’s definitely off, and I wouldn’t blame him, he should be playing there.
Assuming we do get CL, he signed a new deal last Summer, meaning this Summer he will have 3 more years. I think Levy would therefore be very resistant to any offers knowing full well that his value is unlikely to drop over the next season. I can’t see Bale signing a new contract however which means he will probably be sold next Summer to the highest bidder.
Making the kind of profit we will turn on Bale is the exact reason why we have bought players like Bale in the first place, it is part of the financial set up of the club so nobody should be surprised or outraged when it eventually happens. Around 40m profit on one player is a major success story for Levy’s model.
Leaving or not might also depend on his wife’s wishes. Hope she likes London and living close to Wales. I’m assuming she’s Welsh with a surname Rhys-Jones
Is she a Taff?,if she is we’re in shit street,lady taffs don’t like London.FACT
Pretty sure it will be his mum that holds sway. I see him going to UTD rather than abroad. If he goes. Which he hasnt indicted, quite the opposite in fact.
LLL Its not 40m in the bank.Who will we buy?
and what kind of wages will we need to pay?
I think that Joe Lewis will probably assess in the summer where we are at and give the word to Daniel.
They can build something that might be aworth a lot more as a club for the future to sell rather than just a player. Who knows? But you are jumping the gun here.
Don’t know what you mean?
Look first of alll we are odds on to make the CL.If we beat the arse,it will even be better odds.So what is all this fluff for?
Wait till next week and this should be all sewn up.If not then They will have to make a decision for the future. But if we sold him then who do we buy?
We get 40 or 50m and replace him with who exactly? 2 average players?
Balke hasnt shown any intention of leaving has he?
anyway Im off to to work
Still don’t know what you mean?
But I’ll try and reason anyway…
The odds for CL tell us nothing. Although they do tell us what we already know – that CL is not a certainty yet. And all I said was that if we missed out, I can’t see Bale staying. Disagree with that point if you want, but don’t tell me what the odds are on us finishing top 4, it’s not relevant.
Btw if we beat the w*nkers on Sunday, I think it would be foolish to believe we’d have it sewn up with a further 10 games to play.
If we sell him, which we definitely will at some point btw, then we get the money and hopefully have identified targets to make us an all round stronger unit. We don’t want to be a one man team forever right? So hopefully 50m carefully spent would really help AVB – assuming he’s the man in charge when it happens – shape and build his squad into something slightly more balanced.
Bale has repeatedly mentioned that he’d like to play elsewhere in Europe – Spain for example – ‘one day’. He will be 24 this Summer. Do that math, if you will.
LL in reality we all know on here about the same thing.We know what we see.Everything else is conjecture.
So we we dont know and we know.We can stir the pot.
If we beat the arse,immediately the situation with Bale will look different.Yes maybe he would like to play in Spain but maybe he also wants to be a winner with his mates at Tottenham.
Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy also have a plan and that may change too.
Nobody outside the loop knows and possibly the people who might know may not know what is going to be if and when and maybe.
Its fun talking about it because without hard facts we have just ideas and most of us change them according to the situation.Thats why politicians give out money just before the election.
Ok Ron, but just answering with something along the lines of ‘God moves in mysterious ways – anything can happen’ is a bit of a conversation killer isn’t it?
I mean, I might walk into my local shop in a minute and the shopkeeper might be topless and the lad who works there might have his knackers hanging out. That might happen. But I can probably use a little bit of prior experience and make a judgement on exactly how unlikely it is.
what a load of shite”1man team”my arse,get a grip,what formation we playing 0-0-1,missed that.And bale has already shown he has a very down to earth,head on his shoulders,so dont think he going,and avb will make his signings without selling him,just my opinion,LLL
Comment about being a one man team was flippant. But I do believe that the squad needs quality and numbers, and I don’t think we can continue to count on Bale to do all our attacking.
He has a head on his shoulders like every other humanoid but I’m sure he’s also ambitious. Probably the reason he left Southampton.
Like I say, I personally give it one more season. The money is too good to refuse for a club like ours. If you want to believe he’ll be a Spurs lifer, that’s up to you.
Ron Yid. I saw Berbatov and Modric leave. In both cases they played the “you don’t want my trouble” card. Do we Spurs fans see the boy Bale doing alike? What is 40-60 mill pounds compared to consecutive CL and advertising revenue ? If I was boss I can’t see any incentive to sell Bale unless he acts up. So unless he plays the un-employable
card are we not OK? At least till end of contract..
This is naive. Levy wanted to sell Berbatov, he just wanted to get loads of money for him. The same will go for Bale. We can’t afford to have 40-60m players – as you call him – running down their contracts. Don’t know what world you’ve been living in if you think that’s going to happen.
I presume same world as you as we communicate on same blog. Why did we sell Modric so early then on his contract
. We could of capitalized on his contribution to the team for longer if he had not acted as an ass!!! I think such arrangements might be possible with reasonable- minded players.
Ok, but even still, that means we have about a year more to capitalize on Bale’s contribution whilst keeping his value at peak level – due to the length of his contract. Unless you forsee Bale signing a new one with us then his value will decline after next 2014, and I can’t see Levy sitting there scratching off zero’s.
You just got well done by Yidinjapan there,and you nearly admitted it,what’s happening?
Not really, unless you also believe that Levy won’t sell Bale and will keep him stuck to his contract. Do ya?
I think your just arguing for the sake of it,the stance your taking contradicts so many of your older posts,not even your pawns,TNWANK or Chestnutwat are supporting you
Wtf are you talking about? What am I contradicting? Wanna know who’s arguing for the sake of it? You are because you can’t even explain what you don’t agree with!
I remember when you would rant about low expectations of the fans,we should be buying the best players,spend Levy you Tight (unt,etc etc.Now you want to sell our best player as he’s too big for us,make your fucking mind up
When did I rant about low expectations of the fans?
I said we need a striker and Levy should buy us one. I can’t see how this is beyond dispute but carry on.
It also isn’t inconsistent in any regard with the notion that I believe Bale will leave. I don’t want to sell him, but I do know that we will sell him sooner or later. You don’t accept that fact and I can only deduce that is because, just as you can’t accept that we need a striker, you are very, very delusional.
Low expectations, i refer to LLL’s post 5:09pm Feb 24th 2013.
I always want us to win. But my priority is winning 4th. Get it ?
Anyway, leave me alone, talking to you is a chore.
What a Plank !
I’ve always wanted a new striker,i didn’t want Ade and to be honest I don’t know who I wanted,half the players mentioned mean’t nothing to me.I know we’ll sell Bale sooner or later too,you stating that its gonna be sooner rather than later doesn’t make you some kind of seer.You really come across as a pompous prick at times.
So what is it you disagree with exactly? We need a new striker and you know we’ll sell Bale – sooner or later.
Seems like you actually agree with me. So who is arguing for the sake of it?
Calling me names isn’t really fair or reasonable is it? You naughty little tinker.
Btw, can someone please restrain that rabid, yapping poodle? If that was mine I’d have it spayed.
Its that you love to wallow in negativity and anyone who happens to have a half full glass is naive or stupid.
and it saves me typing.Less is more
I don’t make many points I know,when I see a point that I agree with I do one of these
TBH – (the expression, not the bloke) – my views definitely seem more pessimistic than average punter, but as for wallowing, I think that’s in no small part due to me having to defend them against people who take umbrage. Here, I just wrote what I thought, honestly felt it was quite realistic and reasoned, but people disagreed and low and behold, before long I’m wallowing in negativity.
I do think it’s naive to think that Bale will stay at Spurs for ages though.
Quite right, you don’t make many points, Hundreds of worthless posts though, you’ve now topped Ron with the most posts per day, no Partner, no Work, no Life. Sad Pathetic Loser. Still it’s great to have all those Invisible Gooner Pals.
Did somebody break wind?
As expected, another worthless post from LLL.
Seriously, someone’s really dropped their lunch here. Jeez!
4 days ago you pleaded with me to leave you alone, you said you would not reply to my posts yet you reply at every opportunity, more LIES or can you not help yourself ?
No, I’m gonna have to open the windows, smells like something’s died up there.
As you are in a small room on your own it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work out who the Smelly Culprit is.
IM WORKING A MISSING WRITING ON THE BIGGEST THRWAD SINCE THE NET WAS INV ENTED
Yeehaw!
Did you like that Spurstacus ? He hasn’t replied yet, can’t wait to get another dig in.
It would seem that the smell is more than a fart, more than touching cloth even, i suspect LLL has in fact filled his Nappy and is relying on the Care Worker turning up shortly to Bail him out. Who’d be a Care Worker ?
I’d advise you two to get a room except for the the fact that your current spat is so juvenile I’m not sure you’ve reached puberty yet.
I’m trying to ignore the wafting honk, and been doing so for a good week. Keeps following me though.
Nappy change imminent, that should make you bearable in Tesco.
You’ve excelled yourself this time ‘Levy wanted to sell Berbatov’ What on earth gives you that idea? Don’t you think the player having to resort to strike action, Utd effectively kidnapping him and the fact it went to the final minute of that window give you an inkling that Levy mostly certainly didn’t want to sell, but was left with no other option? You really are a twat if you honestly think that?
If he didn’t want to sell him he could have sent him to the reserves and not sold him. The worst that could happen was he would have been sold in the next window. All the other stuff is window dressing, like Levy’s PR complaint to the FA about Fergie tapping Berbatov which wasn’t followed up. And the last day thing – that’s called bargaining.
Can you try and leave out the ‘twat’ stuff, it really isn’t conducive to grown up discussion. No? Ok, as you were then…
Twat do you refer?
Yes, of course he would send a player to the ressies-
Did you not watch the whole thing unfold live on Sky or did you have your head up your backside at the time?
Jesus wept, an idiot and his brain cell are soon parted!
Alright, you can’t talk nice so you will soon be on my shitlist of posters to pointedly ignore like Spaz. Doubt that will trouble you too much but it will probably make my life easier and more pleasant.
We’ve spent way more than £40m on terrible players who got us nowhere so a large transfer kitty wouldn’t necessarily benefit us. If you have players like Bale you can win things and when you do, others will want to play for you too. Lets not copy the Arsenal way of doing it and look at the way Man Utd did it.
Utd have wasted money too, they just have more of it to waste than us.
Nobody is saying, take the 50m and buy 2 David Bentleys and a Crouchinho. But in case anyone had noticed, our squad is pretty light in some specific areas – ahem – and if money’s the problem preventing us from addressing this then you have to be pragmatic.
I’d like to see Bale stay here for his whole career. I just know already that’s not going to happen. But if you want to prolong the dream, go ahead.
This isn’t about prolonging my dream L. My dream involves us having more players like Bale and the only way I can see that happening is if we keep him, win things and progress as a club.
You’re giving me the impression that this is about you resigning yourself to the notion to save the pain when it happens. If it is, I don’t blame you.
There are numerous variables and circumstances to take into account. So many I don’t know where to start! Ultimately I want us to maintain a foothold at the top and the only way I can see us doing that is by keeping Bale at WHL for as long as possible. If in 4 years his contract has run out and he leaves on a free, but we’ve also recruited some of the best players and won a few trophies. It’ll all be worth it.
No, it’s my honest opinion of what will happen. Your last line – about him leaving in 4 years on a free having won trophies etc – it’s positively dream like – but I can’t see that happening at all.
This could be proved to be naive, but I believe Bale will extend his deal and be here for another 2 or 3 years so long as we are challenging for CL qualification and trophies.
My reasoning is we are basing our fear on previous players in different situations.
Carrick, Berbatov, Keane, and Modric.
Two foreigners with no particular feeing for Spurs who grew up on Man United and Real Madrid, and less time left in their careers.
A “boyhood club” money grabbing charlatan, again older.
And Carrick who back then made the right footballing decision, that chasm with Man U has closed.
I don’t believe Bale will fancy another English club.
I think he is committed to improving and enjoying his game, and to that end he appreciates that AVB is good for developing his career.
But if he leaves, it will be a shame – but it won’t wreck total disaster like with the aforementioned. We buy well these days, we attract good players, and the team will come out of it stronger overall.
Maybe there is a curse on big names who leave us. Berbatov and Modric. Mwahaha!
A lesson for Bale. One that AVB leant last season at one of those “Big Clubs”.
Interesting comments on AVB vs Redknapp’s style a third of the way down. Well, tells us all what we already know really, but still interesting to hear it spelt out by the player.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/i-dont-model-my-game-on-ronaldo-gareth-bale-flattered-by-comparisons-but-the-tottenham-winger-insists-he-has-his-own-style-8515324.html
Care to consider the possibility DL will offer Bale another improved contract LLL, or are you too bus taking a contrary view? I guess you didn’t like watching the clear demonstration of team harmony the other night under the manager whose credentials you were so keen to question – citing his Chelsea failings and mocking his previous achievements? Just mentioning it, stirring your pot. Smile.
Contrary to what? I gave my view and I haven’t changed it. If it’s contrary to yours, so what? Who cares? Disagree if you feel like it, don’t just sit there saying being smug and self-satisfied for no apparent reason.
I love seeing us win and seeing Bale hugging AVB warmed the cockles.
Me doubting his credentials in the first place turned out to be wrong (so far, we can’t really make any massive conclusions either way just yet, but nice one for attempting a spot of the old ‘I Told You So’ there), and I’m very glad that’s the case. But I had my reasons and put those forward and defended them against widespread ire. What I disagreed with most were the idiots who wished to ignore any such anxieties for no other reason than they are blindly faithful and then paint that as some kind of superior knowledge and supporter-dom and then arrogantly patronize others whose opinions differed.
* His previous achievements are still basically meaningless, this basic fact hasn’t changed.
* Yes, if you’d spent a little longer taking notice and a little less time being smug, you may have noticed that I have considered the hypothesis that Bale may sign a new deal, above in other comments, and have come to the personal conclusion that it is very unlikely to happen.
Did you have the day off work today?
Facking right, I’ve got nothing done at all, and now off to meet my imaginary girlfriend meaning today’s been a total write off. At least I got into a couple of really enjoyable debates though.
Stand her up. She’d never know.
You don’t know her like I do. She gets really annoyed when I put my made up job before her.
“don’t just sit there saying being smug and self-satisfied for no apparent reason.”
“arrogantly patronize others whose opinions differed.”
“if you’d spent a little longer taking notice and a little less time being smug”
What’s good for the goose etc. Carry on.
Thanks.
Thanks
So thankful I thanked you twice. By accident. Thanks all the same though.
Mysterious – I think there’s a reasonable chance Bale will stay at least one more year and it’s certainly possible he may sign an improved, extended contract – obviously we will have to wait and see. It will also be interesting to see how soon AVB is offered a new contract………assuming of course that he is.
*busy* grrr phone posting.
Just catching up somewhat, reading HH’s fall out from Monday’s wham fest, I cannot be the only Spurious one amongst us to breathe deep joy that we finally again have a keeper that will not cause too many nightmares. Agreed? What non-plusses me every time I see it is the distribution. Short range is usually fine. Considered, accurate and penetrative.
But the long punts to within 10 yards of halfway and beyond are an apparent waste of time. Over the past half dozen or so games I’ve watched – mostly on Sky or dodgy feeds admiittedly, where peripheral observation is necessarily limited – it keeps reminding me of Route One. Where is the cultured, calculated and dependable movement upfield?
If and when we achieve and retain possession, things appear much more hopeful. But I’d be interested to see stats regarding retained possession from long balls from M. Lloris. Obviously not always his fault, but surely possession retention is one of our major strengths and we should play to it, rather than just punt and hope?
Any thoughts, yids??
Hugo IS World Class.
Aww jeez.
stir dat pot, stir dat pot……….
There’s one thing I like about ‘hoofing’ is that it invites the opposition to attack instead of letting them sit back.
They attack, we counter 1-0 to Spurs.
Heard someone on Sky TV today say that Bale goal was the best goal he’d seen so far this season, he must have missed Umtiti’s strike for Lyon in the first leg then. By far the best i’ve seen this season. Heard someone scored a better one last night for St Mirren, may even have been “World Class”.
Berbas was a beauty
Best though was unwittwit
Rafael too
I love ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’, it’s an underrated classic. Oh, and the only place the Balemeister is going this summer is The Valleys to have a nice cuppa with his nan and to give her a bit of company (like any other good grandson would).
Surely you’re too young for that show?
It ain’t ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ bruv!
isnt that PNBs favourite
I mean ever decreasing circles
You Spin me Right Round Baby Like a record Baby right Round Right Round
I use to Wilt on Penelope, not now though1
I remember having a conversation with a certain Arsenal fan several years ago. He said something like,
“You don’t think Spurs will ever win anything do you? How are they ever going to be any good and win anything? You’re wasting you time supporting that shit club”
A few weeks ago H mentioned the dangers of arguing with people who are emotionally invested. And he’s right.
But it’s far too late for me to un-invest(?) all the passion I have for Spurs. All we’ve had for a long time now is humiliation and defeat and as supporters we don’t get the £70k a week or medals to fall back on. Just the memories. And I remember every rotten gooner who’s ever berated me for loving Spurs.
I couldn’t switch allegiances if i tried/wanted to and I never will.
All I can do is hope that I get to see Tottenham storm the league and win a major trophy in my life-time and I think Bale is central to that ambition.
COYMS
.
Once Spurs are in your heart you can never remove them. I am surrounded by Man U fans in Leicester (you see more Man U shirts than Leicester) and over the years it has been very hard to take. But to misquote some lunatic from the National Rifle Association “My love of Spurs will have to be torn from my cold dead heart”.
Fair enough, appreciate / understand all the sentiments.
Can’t stand ritual humiliation at the hands of the charmless goons and would love to put a big one over them. Really hope we can put a medium sized one over them on Sunday with a win. A big win even better.
It is clear to me that you live in a Gooner catchment area, you have admitted on the blog that your friends are Gooners. You constantly take an opposing view on everything so i expect your Loyalties to Spurs are simply an attempt to get up your Mates noses, at least while you are on TBH’s Blog they are getting a bit of peace and laughing at your tall tales, you probably tell them you have about 100 Tottenham Friends and that you’re a personal friend of Harry Hotspur.
My Grandad used to have 100′s of converations a week with Arsenal fans in his line of work- he was Chief Warden at Broadmoor during the ‘Saville Years’.
As Grandad used to say, “They like it up ‘em.”
Un-invest? Try disinvest…
I told Spaz that it was over between us and asked nicely that he didn’t speak to me again. But he continues to harass me and even seems to be compiling data on my whereabouts and keeping a log of my comings and goings. My question would be at what point should I be really alarmed?
No such Username is registered on the Blog.
I have to say that I’d be a little worried if someone kept a log of my goings. Which is why I always flush twice.
I wish you wouldn’t keep going on about your logs.
No need to log, previous posts are available for perusal to all.
One is full of ones self importance, he’s definitely full of something, he’s even smelling it now.
@Harry Boy.
Is there any way of setting the ‘return to top of page button’, to return to the recents comments box instead?
Have you found my Bess’s long lost brother?
Is Bess’s long lost brother called Rufus? If so- yes!
I don’t know. Having speaks with my guy tomorrow…
Ace.
If your on a PC, hit the home button. It’ll take you to the top of the page.
“home” on the keyboard that is.
Rio has said that Bale cannot be considered in the same Class as Ronaldo or Messi, he needs to be doing what he ‘s doing now for at least another 2 years. I would think if he keeps his current form including Goal scoring going until May 2014 then we can all consider him “World Class.” Happy at the moment to see his presence on the field lifting some players, hope it rubs off on Holtby, Adebayor, Dempsey, Lennon, Benny, Walker, Dawson, Verts, Dembele, Parker, Siggy, Livermore, Carroll and Freidel.
Lloris is fine as he is already “World Class.”
Which confirms that Rio knows fuck all. Seems to me that the top clubs cannot bring themselves to admit that someone other than themselves has the best British player of his generation.
Bale may not be as good as Ronaldo or Messi but I doubt there are even half a dozen other players in the world better than the Welsh wonder.
Agreed.
Yep, he is world class. Some people have great difficulty in understanding that you can be world class, but not as good as Messi or Ronaldo. No-one has compared him to Messi, and there are obvious comparisons to Ronaldo which don’t necessarily make him better, or as good.
..and besides, who gives a rat’s arse what Donald Duck thinks?
You’re right OMD. but such is their contempt for THFC, they find a way of putting him down by praise, :’He’s not as good as Messi,’ if he was as good as Messi, they’d say: ‘he’s not as good as Pele.
It’s getting like fuckin’ Crufts on this blog……….
You can’t leave Karen Brady alone can you?
Funnily enough that’s what the Judge exclaimed before slapping a Restraining Order on me.
You should have been sectioned really….
Safer now Saville ain’t around
I wouldn’t bank on it….
I have used the last fortnight to flag up Football tips on the Blog, to a flat Tenner they have returned £205:90 profit, a healthy profit for minimal stake. This has been a worthwhile exercise, though many do not understand the Dynamic of betting some may have found it useful. I will in future keep my selections for Friends and Family only.
Keep it up Raz. I want to try to follow your system over a two week stretch. I’ll let you know when I next have a tenner.
RAZ 1400 posts
LLL 1500 posts
Legit. 35000 posts
Lamp Posts?
Chee
k.
Is there a secret passage between Tower Hill and Fenchurch Street so people can “disappear”? :Afraid:
yes it was used by Campbell,Berbativ and Modric.A one way ticket to Palookavile,Charlie
They aint nothin’ but bums
The odds on all 3 contributors total number of posts ending in 00 is astronomical.
…anyone seen Berba-rat doing the harlem shake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry5STUpmlpA
What….the fuck?
The Bale leaving sh*t….It’s so…..so….so….boring. It aint worth discussing.
Let’s discuss how boring the talk of Bale leaving is. BORINGGGGG!
Bale might leave in the summer if we dont qualify for the CL. If we qualify then we have two more seasons of him, unless we really up the odds and start coming good. like propers good. Like winning the FA cup or progressing really well in the CL. The bloke isnt an idiot he is a sounded person.
He isnt looking for a change, but if THFC dont match what he can achieve then reluctanty i think he will leave.
He is quite a grounded individual like Walcott and the Ox , Southampton have a good setup. The players that come from there have usually a good head on their shoulders.
Do you reluctantly think. Or do you think he’ll reluctantly leave?
I think the distinction is germane.
I think the end of Fergie at Man U will be the catalyst to an inevitable decline in their fortunes on a par with Liverpools after their dominant spell in the 80′s, and Leeds Utd’s after the 70′s. They have a massive following around the World, but that transient following can desert them if the team don’t continue to provide success. The debt, which the americans have managed to distance themselves from through clever financiers, will then eventually take its toll on the playing side, through restrictions on wages, and transfer fees, which in turn will compound the lack of quality on the field.
Football is nothing if not cyclical, and runs always come to an end, but where there is a club on the slide, there will be room for one on the up. If we build our new stadium, whilst continuing to compete, and improve on the pitch then the options for Bale to improve his lot elsewhere will be very limited. Everyone says he is locked on for Real Madrid, but that’s just because they have historically paid the big transfer fees. The reality is they feel stung by the Modric deal so they are unlikely to roll over to Levy next time round, and in the long term I think the Spanish will eventually pull a stunt like the French, and start taxing the rich even more. Look at the Beckham deal – only someone as rich as him can afford to play in France, so that will count PSG out. Italian football hasn’t got two many euros to throw about and Germany is pretty close to the Premier league in wages.
If this were 5 years ago I’d say he’s gone, but now and they way things will change over the next few years with financial fair play curbing the Sugar Daddy business model, I’m not so sure. On a purely personal development basis, surely Bale looks at the two big transfers out of Spurs in the last few years and sees Berbatov now playing for Fulham, and the Ratboy probably ending up at QPR on loan, and thinks will it be worth it?
Bring back Harry
Hotspur
H Corbett
Potter
kari
Monk
Caray
situation
krishna
belafonte
Kane…. ? :P ondering: Nah, can’t be….
wordsworf
Hey, Ron. Just finished reading a book of Alice Munro stories. That babe knows how to write–not Wordsworf, but then who is?
Wordsworf? Must be from Newfoundland.
what is a Baleworth?
isnt Alice Munro a canuck?
not too sure about her writing
is it more than my jobsworf
Canuck indeed, just up the road from you in Clinton, Ont.
Sydney Potter.
Worth
Hausen.
What I see right now is an amazing run by a guy who may be world class but he needs to sustain it, and he well might. But if he doesn’t by this time next season Raz and LLL will be arguing about why f*cking Levyndid not sell that c*nt Bale for £90MM when he had the chance. As much as I can’t stand Rio Ferd his comments were well reasoned and self deprecating–he said he had seen Bale blow buy him so he knew what he was talking about.
Who knows? But I believe DL and AVB will make every effort to keep The Boy in Lily White. Clearly they are trying to build a team. Every time they bag a good young player, Siggy Vert Holtby, the news is the same. “I talked to management and they showed me where they want the team to go in the next few years.” That would not include giving up on Gareth. And it did include hiring a young manager on the rise instead of a tired retread who had batted around the league/world for years.
Finally, the vibes are just too damn good. Late goals, celebrations involving the bench, shows of real affection between the lads and Steffen and AVB. If there are no major injuries, I’ve got to believe we are headed for CL and could finish 2d
Thank God Raz and 3l put on their Jammie’s and went nighty night. COYS
Yet another one who can’t distinguish between being world class and being as good as Ronaldo or Messi. Again, no-one on here has said that Bale is as good as Messi or Ronaldo.
Well reasoned? “People mentioning Bale in the same breath as Christiano + Messi really don’t know football!”
He would have given Socrates and Plato a run for their money given that kind of reasoning.
Sounds more suited to this blog, where people argue against a point of view that hasn’t actually been stated.
Rio seems to love the sound of his own voice despite the fact he never seems to say anything that is worth listening to.
It seems everybody has a different definition of what makes someone World class.
Mine would be that you would be selected for the best current World eleven and on current form, I think Bale would be.
Not sure why the club of World class players should be limited to just 2 which is what some seem to argue.
Anyway, after the West Ham game AVB said GB was World class and that is good enough for me.
He’s one of these footballing Twitter addicts, nothing better to do than sit in their mansions banging out inane comments in the belief that they are in someway profound. The reality is that they are just rich thickos.
Don’t know why anyone would take any notice of the twaddle these twits tweet (try saying that after a few).
Wasn’t Fedinand recently voted the most illiterate footballer currently using Twitter? Given the competition that’s one hell of an achievement.
There also appears to be disparity on whether to use upper case letters when discussing ‘world class’. Is Dempsey ‘Cattle Class’ or just ‘cattle class’. I’d lean toward the former with Dempsey.
Apparently the new owners want to make Cardiff City more “Manchester United like”. Not content to change the shirt colour and badge,they want to change their name to Cardiff Dragons. I suppose if you have enough money you can f**k anything up.
Ledley King is on BBC this morning!
Ledders was well worth watching on BBC, had the Prem Lge Trophy beside him, would have been Magic to have seen it presented to him just once on the field, Dreaming, why not.
Page 8 in todays Sun Benitez and the Analyst.
Apologies if this has been posted before, but very funny.
http://m.talksport.co.uk/magazine/virals/130228/video-rafas-second-rant-chelsea-fans-192643
That’s brilliant
“Monsta moo? Moonch? Munch yap.
‘Cloob’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQiyXFpc6wE&list=SPB8204044988DB7CB
Harry (Redknapp, not HH) said Bale was ‘world class’ on many occasions….& that’s good enough for me.
Did he? Perhaps he isn’t, then. This is a bloke who wanted to send him out on loan (read, get rid of him). A bloke who earnestly believed that Suarez offered no more than Defoe. A bloke who would tell you black was white if it suited his life long quest for recognition (which he patently doesn’t deserve, nor will ever get) among managers who have actually achieved rather than recognition among a bunch of 2 bob scribblers.
A bloke who ‘looked’ guilty in court but was proved innocent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iaQl0T8Ipqo ha ah ah aha
As i said, Bale will be “World Class” at the end of next season if he continues in the same vein. I believe he will get there in time, for now he is our Leader of the Pack.
I don’t care who thinks Bale is or is not world class,I have my own opinion ,but I’m not willing to share.
Good on you, keeping your counsel. A gentleman never tells. Keep keeping them guessing Frontman.
Using Rio Ferdinand’s tweet in an attempt to back up your own argument, especially when he wasn’t even discussing whether or not Bale is ‘world class’ is plain feeble and commonly referred to as ‘fallacious appeal to authority’ or ‘inappropriate authority’, a tactic often deployed by the desperate.
AVB has him down as World class, that is good enough for me.
Oh go then.
So when Bale himself dismisses such speculation that is also rubbish. He has his feet firmly onthe ground, he says he is still learning and improving, Hear Hear, the Lad will know when he is “World Class” we can only appreciate his efforts in a Lilywhite shirt without getting carried away by the Media Hype. COYS.
He’s a very modest chap isn’t he? Some of the goals he’s scored in the last few weeks are spectacular and it’s his contributions that have been the deciding factor in the majority of matches. You’re right regarding the media hype but it’s not exactly unfounded is it?
I think you only know for sure wether a player is world class in hindsight but it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad punt to just go ahead and give him the benefit of the doubt would it?
I mean, he’s pretty flipping good.
Bale dismissing comparison to Ronaldo has little bearing on whether he himself is actually world class. The question wasn’t ‘Are you world class’ so it has no relevance at all to mention it.
(Not arguing with you specifically Brizzle)
For the intellectually challenged I ‘ll try to clarify. Putting in World Class performances over a run of games and being World Class throughout a career is a World of difference, wouldn’t you think?
Was Bale ‘World Class’ in August-December or were there only sporadic cameo’s that frustrated more than excited? Go figure
Was this not the same player chastised for not passing, diving-drifting-not staying on the left-blah, blah-Bales been brilliant these past few months-but I thought the season began in August and ended in May?
I’ve said several times that I have felt that he has been our stand out player since the season began so I’ve no idea why you need to keep telling me that other people such as HH and presumably yourself were too dim to notice that when it wasn’t being spelt out in massive 25 yard goal sized letters in every single match. He has been at times embarrassingly better than our other players, visibly several levels above them. He has been our MOM in more games than any one other player.
Btw, if he continues his current run indefinitely, as you are saying would be necessary for him to be deemed world class, he would probably eclipse Ronaldo in terms of goal scoring. I don’t think he will do that, but it isn’t important, and neither is your unreasonable classifying system.
Bale has been touted as one of the best players in the world in most circles for more than two or three weeks, and not for no reason. As AVB himself said when asked if he thought Bale was world class, and I quote, “I think for some time already.”
Since the season began eh?, so If I can be bothered to scroll back after every game since August the posts will be full of your praise of Bale and his WC performances will they? I think not somehow?
’2/3 weeks’-that’s exactly my point!
No, it’s exactly my point actually. He’s been world class for longer than the 2/3 week period in which he’s hit ‘out of this world’ form.
Go for it, if it tickles your fancy. I think I’ve been saying he’s better than all our other players all season long. I think so anyway.
Wrong, i never referred to a Tweet, i referred to yesterdays newspapers direct quotes from Rio, you’ ve just got it completely wrong again, jumping to the wrong conclusion. Making a fool of yourself again.
For heaven’s sake! For the third time, being world class does not equate to being as good as Messi or Ronaldo. Is this concept really that difficult to grasp, or are people honestly suggesting that there are only 2 world class players?
No they are not honestly suggesting that there are only two world class players, they are stating that Bale is very good, that he is on a marvelous run, and that he very well may be “world class” whatever that is but that most mature people would base such an estimation on an extended run of play. Can he do it? It appears so. Has he done it? No, not yet. Here’s hoping he does.
Now, The Mug with No Name, I await your stream of ill considered abuse. Bring it on.
Ah, I see your cage has been rattled now. ‘The Mug with No Name’, very witty, well done. I sense it was the slagging off of your hopeless compatriot that got your goat, or was it the easily dismissed ‘well reasoned’ argument from Rio?
Gotcha!
I won’t be lured into defending Rio Ferd. As for Deuce, he has and will take care of himself.
Now, mug/mutt/moron?? with no name, can you come up with a new nom de abuse now that you have been found out?
Bit of a cowardly pack mentality on this site, once one or two people decide that a given poster is fair game for slagging, then quite a few others will gleefully join in. I can’t really see why it’s acceptable for anyone except Essexian (who has a personal duel going) to insult TMWNN, even so feebly as here. Isn’t there a play the ball thing that’s supposed to be lightly adhered to here?
As you yankee’s say – I think – jus’ sayin’.
Perhaps we should send a copy of Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ stateside to warn them of the perils of mob rule. Bless ‘em.
As for the baboon, I can’t remember the last time I replied directly to one of its ever so dull comments, but it never lets me down.
I always try to refrain from petty name calling of fellow postees, and the very few times (the baboon excepted) I have weakened has been reactive, rather than proactive, but I apologise (yes, that’s with an ‘s’ Cinci) all the same.
Saying that, the blog comes alive when there’s heated debate, it’s just a shame that some don’t have the wits about them to argue without resorting to personal name-calling and take it all a bit too seriously.
Agree, no need for pointless insults, always lowers the tone. Debate can be stimulating and interesting and amusing, but moronic slanging matches with sub-normal mental cases on the internet is pointless and demeaning for all concerned – which is why I don’t respond to Spaz anymore.
And turds are dull, brown and stink the gaff out, but nothing a good flushing won’t cure eh Bob?
‘I’ve always refrained from petty name calling’ really? You mate are a real idiot, it’s your persistence in calling people childish names that caused this rift in the first place-even now you refer to Bale as’ Monkey Boy’, and almost all of your posts have a reference to physical characteristics of anyone and everyone-as I’ve pointed out before-post your own image bvefore commenting on others eh? but a turd is a turd is a turd eh Bob?
How about The Turd With No Brain? but Bob’s apt I think?
Who said it equated to being as good as Messi or Ronaldo ? I happen to think he will be deemed W/C by most in time, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
The direct quotes were from his twitter account you mug. Now f off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rio-ferdinand-if-you-think-gareth-bale-is-as-good-as-cristiano-ronaldo-you-dont-know-football-8513253.html
I think that if Bale scores 15 more world class goals between now and January 21at 2014 then we can all agree that he is world class. At the moment he is just our 2nd best player, that’s all, don’t know what the excitement is. 3rd in fact if you count Holtby who isn’t world class either yet but will definitely be the greatest player of all time of he keeps finding space in that world class way of his.
It will definitely be Jan 21st, if he keeps scoring his ‘worldies’ that we can call him world class. Definitely. Either that or else when HH runs a blog titled ‘Gareth Bale is world class now’, then he definitely will be and we can all stop debating it once and for all.
I wonder exactly how many games Lloris played before he was awarded with the ‘world class’ tag. If that can be answered, then we can calculate when it’s official with Bale, maybe hold a world class Gareth Bale day, or perhaps HH could knock out a special tribute blog.
Also, if Lloris is world class, but Bale isn’t, does that mean clubs will be knocking the door down to get Lloris now, and wait till ‘Official World Class Bale Day’ to come back?
As to when Lloris was officially declared world class and what system was used to categorize, I’ve no idea, but I’m sure someone else around here can explain it clearly using really sound logic and reasoning, just like they always do. Better yet, HH might want to run a blog called ‘Lloris is world class, Bale isn’t’ and explain it all for everyone because I’m a bit confused right now and surely not the only one in need of some guidance.
I wonder who you think is the best player in the team then. And Holtby is still a work in progress. So far nothing we’ve seen from him would make him 2nd best in the team.
He’s being sarcastic. Hang around, you might have fun, but then again..
Haven’t you seen the way Holtby makes space? He is the best in the team at making space. He is particularly good when sitting on the bench and thereby making space for someone else on the pitch. (Don’t tell Ron I said that).
Moe888, would you consider Bale to be ‘world class’, not ‘as good as Messi + Ronaldo combined into one footballer of mass destruction’, but just plain old ‘world class’?
I’ll go with whatever Moe says.
I miss Ledley king.
Me Too!
Everyone needs a little bit of analysis…ok so lie down and read this…
http://bet.unibet.com/2013/03/01/premier-league-tactical-preview-spurs-v-arsenal/816
You’re Good,Gareth Bale,Your’e real good.I didnt say you weren’t world class,but you are real good
Great piece of pre match analysis there. I’m going to be on edge all weekend until the final whistle. I might just have to spend the whole weekend getting pissed…
I’ve just emailed the bloke and asked him to post something, anything, that isn’t so blindingly obvious.
Can’t wait for the game, though.
This world class thing. It’s still running then? There’s a thing.
It’s got long, long legs. At least until it’s been made official. You’ll have to ask others exactly when that day is.
I’m off to my Whirl Class. It’s a fitness thing where we go ’round in circles for days on end.
Only days? Wait until the bed wetters who claim that we don’t need a striker, pipe up again.
A world class striker? Nah we don’t need one. And he probably wouldn’t be world class anyway.
Or until the Turns who keeps going on about some not needing another striker, when clearly no-ones ever said anything like that? but Hey Ho- ‘Bobbin along, bobbin’ along, on the bottom of the beautiful shiny bowl’
Can I have the envelope please…….and the winner of the World Class Award goes to……..
The pulitzer definitely goes to LLL
The Pulitzer your leg? Or the Pulitzer your plonker?
Pulitzer the other one
This site seems to be going rapidly downhill, too many people interested in settling personal long running vendettas and indulging in petty name calling.
Which is both sad and a real shame as at it’s best, it is without doubt the best blog around.
Not so long ago TBH asked that we all play the ball and not the man. Is that really asking too much ?
Some people can’t see something they disagree with without reacting with crap insults and jibes and more people still don’t like dissent or questioning of the received wisdom of the blogmaster.
I might be a sarcastic, pompous know-it-all but I’m rarely abusive to people unless they start on me first, and even then, there is a very fine limit to the amount I’ll get dragged into slanging matches because a. they’re pointless, b. usually the insults aren’t even funny or clever and c. they are embarrassing.
Some of them are funny,but yeah
Ledley says that GB is ‘is in the top 3 players in the world on current form’ & that’s good enough for me.