All The Fun Of The Fair

Not happy...

As someone said on twitter (can’t remember who): ‘Both teams disappointed with a point, which means it was probably a fair result’.

Fair enough. Unfortunately, we’re at the point in the season when fair isn’t enough, and given City’s unfair and unconvincing win over Wigan, it made our inability to hang on all the more frustrating.

Having my child’s party to oversee, I only managed to watch the last 25 minutes uninterrupted and haven’t seen any of the replayed action, so am unable to pass comment on Defoe’s goals, or Hutton’s lucky escape at only a yellow card. Flicked it on and we were 1-0 down. Came back 20 (ish) minutes later and it was 2-2. Without looking, I already knew we’d taken the lead and let it slip, because I’ve watched a lot of Tottenham in my life. I did manage to flick back to catch Pav’s awesome finish, and was fully engaged at the point at which their ‘goal’ was disallowed (quite rightly, IMO) and to see their late equaliser loop over Gomes into the score bag. ‘Agonising’ would perhaps be an over-statement, but certainly head-shakingly unimpressed at seeing us drop points so late in the day would be… fair. It’s the first points we’ve dropped from 82 minutes onwards all season, so the shouts of ‘bottle-jobs’ may be a tad harsh on a squad that has shown a lot of resilience this past calendar year.

So yeah, 11 days since Blackpool, a trip to Dubai, 1 point, 13 days until the spammers at home, 2 league games in the whole of March, 6 in April, plus however many more extras if we get to the quarters/semi’s in the Champo League. My foot hurts. Suarez would have been great at Spurs. Chelsea will destroy Blackpool tonight. All problems with no resolution.

Strange team selection from Harry, whose intentions seem clear. Whether he see’s winning the whole Champions League shebang as being an easier route into next years competition than finishing in the top 4 is unclear, but there is no doubt that he is going all out to save our soldiers for the European battle, to the dismay of several. He did it against Sunderland, but we won so any voices of discontent were hushed, and Harry bought himself another free pass. It looked like working again for 87 minutes yesterday, but it didn’t, so he deserves his share of the blame for resting Lennon and saving Bale until late in the day. Sandro looked good from the bits I did see, and seeing young Gareth haring down the wing, albeit the right one, should give us all a lot of encouragement for the final CL and PL pushes.

This is all getting a bit rambley now, so I’ll stop here. Milan on Wednesday. Twaaaaaaaaaaah.