Not really, no disaster at all, we came up against a bunch of determined men probably playing the most glamorous fixture of their careers. Besides, our reserves used to play there, a lot of Spurs support in the local area, let’s try and give them a break… not like, lay down, but, you know, just maybe not try a million percent at all times. Who said ‘fix’? Because I certainly didn’t. Jesus, you lot need to leave it out with your 9/11 style conspiracy theories and get real. This is Football, not… a… bloody… Bronx Tale.
Now we’ve well and truly dealt with any of those nagging doubts you’ve been having about the result, Harry isn’t usually a man to over think things, but he probably got it a bit wrong with that 5-3-2 stuff. The guy knows the FA Cup, and he knew that with a pitch fit for monster trucks, Somme re-enactments or rugby, that Stevenage would probably try to hit ‘em high and generally be a bit physically pesky. If our plan was to deal with this then I see the logic, but perhaps being 50-odd places higher in the league standings and playing some delicious stuff, we might want to have let them worry about we could do instead? Also, perhaps someone more learned than I can explain why that goal was chalked off? My understanding is that Parker would need to have influenced the outcome of that attack. Not sure that had he not been there for the ball to skim his backside, that the outcome of Saha’s effort would have been any different? Oh well, credit to them and I don’t begrudge them their money-spinning replay and subsequent drubbing in the return. Magic of the FA Cup? Form book goes out the window? This is their cup final? Battling performance? *gets clubbed to death by the cliché police*
Credit to Stevenage they played well and we didn't. We should get through at home no bother.
ReplyDeleteBolton at home should be overcome too then it's another semi.
we've lost our past 5 semis in the FA cup, it's about time we made the final again
A smart enough summary. Not sure about match fixing. Looked to me like it could go either way right down tot he wire. All in all I wasn't too concerned about the result. Couldn't help but think that a couple of years ago we'd have lost that one. But then I seem to be thinking that all the time these days.
ReplyDeleteWe out-twinned tower them by playing a third central defender, blimey you've got me at it now.
ReplyDeletePoor performance, poor pitch, poor tactics and we still should have beat them.
Too much respect, too much fear of the pitch.
It was bobbly not crocodile infested.