Perhaps it was sentiment, but i really enjoyed the Colchester United game.
Weighed down by developer issues that were plain to see, my thoughts on our trip to Cuckoo Farm were kept largely to myself, yet looking about online it was evident that some thought that it was grim affair.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, occasionally we are all suffer from forgetting what it is to actually just watch game of football.
Last night was a more turbo-charged affair, but what really made it great was the fact that so many players had good games.
The feel good factor you experience when the ball moves slickly from one player who’s doing well to another who’s having an equally good game is like that moment a plane leaves the runway and is then effortlessly cruising high high high in the clouds, and you barely seemed to notice the transition.
Norwich away was potentially a massive banana skin.
But as it transpired, their performance against Liverpool had more to do with Liverpool being poor, than to do with Norwich being a tough hut to crack. We learnt this by a) playing Norwich and b) noting the Leicester City went through Clop’s lot like a shortcut last night.
Norwich were awful but, it must be said, that we would have made anyone look second rate last night. This wasn’t luck either 0 our away form is rock solid.
We’re 11 games unbeaten away from home in the league for the first time since a run of 16 in 1985.
1985.
The Spurs flew out the traps and the Dele Alli goal instantly gagged and bound the Norwich fans. The home fans were so silent and static you might have thought Ed Ball couldn’t sell any tickets so they’d covered the stands in those digitally printed building wraps.
That was a great goal. It reminded me of the sort of fare that Archibald and Crooks served up once upon a time. The was an intensity, an inevitability that the ball was going in.
Alli really is looking like a rather special player.
Norwich got a bit shirty, but they were pretty pedestrian. Grumpy pedestrians.
The penalty was soft, but City only had themselves to blame. Alli had been nudged, pushed and kicked at several times before. Norwich’s real problem is that their team has too many people with the same IQ as Sebastien Basing in it.
Alderweireld is gorgeous.
Wimmer will be just fine.
Eriksen was more commanding than usual, but was that more down to the Canaries reticence, opposed to him asserting himself?
Dembele crushed all that crossed his path. tacks and interceptions galore.
Kane notched up another two goals, and so it goes on…
