It’s The Century: The Time Travelling Adventures of Captain Combover

We won? Again? I didn’t sign up for this when I started out 100 POSTS ago. Where is the Ramos depression- enducing complaint fodder? Boat well and truly missed, this ‘we won but it wasn’t spectacular’ era is becoming rather tiresome.

Let’s be honest, without the shoddy finishing, we could have been talking about a Wiganesque 9-1 score line yesterday, what with the way we begun, on a temperate autumnal Sunday afternoon, and even the colour of the oppositions kit being evocative of that fateful day. We should have had at least twice as many goals as we finished with, BUT, the Spurs go marching on and all that, a win’s a win, don’t eat cheese before bedtime, spirit of the blitz etcetera etcetera.

I didn’t see Match of the Scratch last night, but reports suggest they were rather glowing in their praise of our lilywhite heroes, with talk of a top 3 finish being thrown in there for good measure. Hmmmm. If you had a big shop selling only one product, I’d say you’d be pretty tempted to go loopy over it as well. Similarly, if you’re an MOTD2 producer with only one game to look at, you might sit back, pray for goals and incident, and generally over egg it when it came to examining the games finer points. Salt pinching of the large variety with last nights love in I shouldn’t wonder.

Still, what you wouldn’t have needed an enthusiastic programme editor to make obvious was how good Captain Combover was yesterday, or indeed ‘The Harry Redknapp ‘I Told You So’ Experience’, to appreciate that the guy really is a fantastic performer, and surely one of the buys of the window. 8 million for a 30 year old? Bargain. And speaking of evocation, far from the usual clichés, a comparison with a Spurs great of old was thrown in, with Harry tentatively comparing young Scottsdale to Dave Mackay. Unfortunately, I’m not qualified to pass comment on the influence or ability with which Dave played the game, but there’s no doubt that Parker was ‘immense’ yesterday, so perhaps Harry’s not a million miles off? With his, frankly, rabid determination, the biggest fear with him would have to be burnout, but while he’s only being asked to play one game a week, and with Sandro waiting eagerly in the wings, we look in good shape. Winning mentality (in depth) in the middle of the grass. Oh yes.

VdV continued his now record-equalling scoring run as well. Only Teddy and Bob Keane have previously scored in 5 games in a row for the Totters in EPL history (therefore, EVER), so next weeks trip to Fulham could be a record breaker. I wonder if anyone is still feeling sorry for Defoe? Mind you, would have been nice to see him for half an hour at the end. His flat-track bullying might well have been what we needed to improve that GD. Small issues though, Rumbly Cousins to look forward to on Thursday.

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