Spurs see off 2023 in style by getting a hard-fought three points off a Bournemouth side in great form and brimming with confidence. Goals from Sarr, Son and Richarlison helped put the Cherries to bed and Ange Postecoglou almost got in a punch-up on the sidelines. That moves Tottenham back up the Premier League and still within touching distance of the top places.
Let’s get this one shared out first sorry bear with me if you are watching this not live just skip ahead a bit you know the drill right let go oh what a lovely way what a lovely way to end the year three points for Tottenham and a loss for Arsenal like
Could couldn’t be any better an afternoon could it like that’s a that’s a Bournemouth side that’s resurgent they’ve been in great form they’re brooming with confidence playing some really good football iola’s Iola he’s got them playing some really nice stuff they’ve spent a lot of money
They did have a big Takeover in the summer it’s not really a fairy tale they’re a good side they’re a good side I was very worried about this afternoon but we’ve only gone and done it and that’s it doesn’t matter doesn’t matter anymore moving back up the table more
Injuries than any of us can you know keep track of here we are still there one point behind one point behind the Arsenal as Billy T pointed out on Twitter the Arsenal who what is it their floor is everyone else’s ceiling one win in their last five oh it’s brilliant happy New Year
Happy New Year um it’s it’s miraculous the the fact we’ve managed to keep up here when you know we’ve just got no right to we’ve got no right to be as close to the top of the table as we are considering the amount of injuries we’ve had the amount
Of really not only just it’s not the quantity of injuries it’s the quality of them as well the type of players we’re missing as a result of this and let’s call it a crisis you know I’ve already been accused on Twitter this afternoon of succumbing to hyperbole come on who doesn’t who
Doesn’t um it’s just stunning it’s abs absolutely absolutely stunning to see Arsenal after look I know I’m here to talk about Tottenham but Arsenal’s Misfortune goes hand inhand with tottenham’s success look we all know this we don’t need to justify this don’t care about anyone saying this is a timot
Mentality Arsenal last year with a historic a historic bottling of the Premier League the the team the club the fan base that has the temerity to talk about Tottenham Hotspur being Butlers never ever again do I want to hear that from any of them after last season this historic bottling all
Records like revised after that right historic bottling gave themselves a gold trimmed kit a gold trimmed kit you can imagine that was artetta no that’s it we’re going to we’re going to commit to the gold trim kit because we are we it’s this manifesting our destiny [ __ ] when he’s not waving light
Bulbs around and drawing brains and hearts on whiteboards comes up with and excusing the reprehensible behavior of his playing staff he is coming up with all this [ __ ] and you can imagine he’s probably driven this a gold trimmed kit that they’ve since turned into what is their thing oh
Actually it’s commemorative of the invincibles or hyri or some [ __ ] we all know why you had a gold trim kit and then you try to turn it into well it’ll be all the sweeter when we win the League this year in our gold trim kit and look at what they’re doing
Pathetic same same afternoon that Tottenham Hotspur have gone and nobody’s backed us to do it gone and beaten Bournemouth which sounds ridiculous it sounds ridiculous to be so pumped after beating Bournemouth at home but they were good side they were a good side and they were very good today they didn’t
Capitalize on their chances um I’ve been sort of raving about salanki I put him in my fantasy team you know that’s the mark of uh you know the the highest form of Praise right I was sort of thinking all throughout this he’d actually do very
Well in our team he was so wasteful man like if I I was sort of thinking about this if if I was watching him play for us and we were creating as many opportunities for him as Bournemouth did I’d be absolutely raging absolutely fuming with him he was you know was not
Good today um one of the other good bits about this obviously that I’m I’ve completely brushed over here this happy New Year of tottenham’s Victory Arsenal’s defeat is the just absolutely no itk completely out of left field what the [ __ ] Rodrigo Banker’s return not was
He not not sat on the bench oh maybe maybe he’ll get 10 minutes at the end of the game starting the game Rodrigo Bank happy Christmas Santa has come late um but we’re all very happy about it I mean Sensational what a what an afternoon I
Mean that that I’ve got to say the game was ugly felt like it was never going to end but I don’t care you know as soon as the final whistle is gone we’ve got those three points we Shuffle back up the table a bit I don’t actually know if
Our positions changed at all but still mentally at least a mental Shuffle right I don’t care game was tough but we’re running on fumes you can see it Sonny looks shattered Sonny looks absolutely dumb but didn’t stop running gave it his best got a good goal out the back of it
As well a crucial goal at that and if you consider he’s maybe a bit of a yard stick of this like they they are absolutely blowing out their asses they’ve all put in a Herculean effort these past few weeks past couple of months really nearly right um to still
Be in this position is you know credit to all of them come on like I know I’ll say it up front right I got a lot of pels after the last one me digging out hya coming off the bench and I’ve always I’ve always to be fair I’ve always said
He’s all right coming off the bench he when sa went off today he allowed us to have another foothold in the game because we were we were abs absolutely floundering as soon as sa went off the game completely went to [ __ ] we had no control over the game benano you can
Tell is not fully fit couldn’t do as much running as he normally would sa was doing a lot of the running for him benen Co was allowing you know he was sort of shielding allowing s to do what he could do but as soon as sa went off we went to [ __ ]
Skippy look was not good when he came on I didn’t think anyway and you know I’m a fierce advocate of Oliver skip I love him and all this type of thing to be fair we got a foothold back in the game as soon as Pier Moyer came on so hold my
Hands up to that one but no I don’t I don’t hold my hands up to anything right no I don’t I don’t I’m not I’m not hearing it I’m not hearing it get rid of him but still when he comes off the bench he usually does all right it’s
Just not starting games can’t have him starting games but look don’t want to go on about that I just want to talk about Tottenham winning what a glorious just a great result because not even not I guess is the literal definition of pessimism isn’t it but I didn’t feel
Pessimistic going into this I just thought we were GNA lose but that that pessimism to me would suggest I’m going into it thinking like ah Tottenham we always lose we’re [ __ ] with this we’re just trying to be bit realistic about it Bournemouth were flying very very good
We’ve got loads and loads of injuries we had no idea rrio benano was going to be playing for us and then you know lo and behold we managed to uh we managed to just get this one done and we should be be like with all due respect all that
Bollocks right you know how we all have to like everyone like these days right these days you can’t say anything no but we always have to like [ __ ] foot around all these kind of things where it’s like you can’t just you know people get all
Like funny if you just say we should be going into a game of back in Bournemouth we should be we’re with Tottenham [ __ ] Ur right we should be absolutely walking all over these lot now but but these days if you say you should be walking all over Bournemouth you get
Locked up and thrown in jail um I’m not I’m not going to ape Stuart Le all uh all thing that’s just such a typical 30 something like you know thinks he’s smarter than he is man thing to do isn’t it oh I watch Stuart Lee I do you watch
Stuart Lee do you yeah I watch Stuart Lee I do do you watch Stuart Lee yeah I watch St that’s yeah never mind um [ __ ] [ __ ] what am I going on about happy New Year New Year’s Eve let’s get on it hey um I’m not I’m not actually drinking at the moment but
I can get on it with joy there we go um board games more eating all that type of muck that I’m doing this evening having a family one didn’t get to see my family on Christmas again we’re not here to listen to talk about that anyway are we
Um good one good one I’ve managed to go 10 minutes just blabber mouthing about not actual football at all see what a few people have said um Connor Mumy hair looks glorious Sun title charge is on thank you K dog um DUS suus wild Rodrigo banur what a
Player what a lovely surprise I mean he is unbelievable who was it somebody said um I’m not sure who it was somebody might have been that what’s his name that coach lad Harry Brooks or something he said that Rodrigo meno needs to be considered tottenham’s best
Player I don’t I don’t know if he’s incorrect really right he said a few others I think he said like Madison I’m pretty sure it was her can’t remember if it’s was him or that invert the wing person but it was saying it’s either Ben tenko Madison Romero couple of other Sonny
Um I think there’s something about benan cor right and I will talk about the players individually a lot more at the end but just while we’re sort of sping anecdotally um I do find with benen Co there’s something about him that I haven’t felt really since
We had lley King in the respect that like whenever if you’re old enough to remember and anyone who is will know exactly what I’m talking about it would be always like 5050 whether or not lley would be starting games for us and we’d all be sort of huddled around a phone in
Like you know a pub Garden outside the ground or something like that when you know reception was only 3G and you could barely get it when there were loads of people about right and you would just be waiting for the team lineup to drop and you would just hear somebody like maybe
The other side of the pub just be like lley starting and everyone would just be like yes there was just that feeling of just like instant relief of like a game that because Tottenham back then it was always it was always a crap shot whether we won lost or Draw there was never
Really any sort of like you know Rhyme or Reason to us we just sort of existed we played football and it was a bit of a laugh right but when I think l was probably like one of those players that you just kind of thought when he was on the
Team we might not lose today actually we might like we actually might not because he’s so good in benen cot I just find he has a similar Aura this there’s something about him that when he does start for Spurs when he is playing for us I suddenly feel just like I feel more
Assured I feel just a bit safer I feel tucked up in a duve of just Tottenham Bliss I don’t know it’s a [ __ ] metaphor is it but he’s just he’s he’s he’s a brilliant player he brings such a sort of level of calm to to the Midfield and just to our
Overall play and he’s just he’s got such an authority such a presence like there that it’s like I don’t know like I say he’s a bit ladly kingish and he’s sort of got a similar sort of frame to lley the way he sort of like Glides around the pitch is actually quite is
Reminiscent in some way but in the same way he’s just got this kind of especially when he’s on the ball um and when he’s sort of roaming around the Midfield he’s he’s got this like authority to him this kind of for have a better expression big dick energy like
Must dembele had where they just know they’re good like they they don’t ever seem to be worried about like you know big game today I’m going to disappear into my own head a bit I’m facing up against whoever do you know what I mean Kevin De bruyne or or this or that like
I’ve got to be on my guard like I I always feel like Ben tenko like must dembele did they always sort of went into a game as in like they’re playing against me like I’m here and they have to they have to compete with me
Um and it I I just think that that sort of bleeds that aura that he has bleeds into the rest of the team bleeds into the players around him um you saw the you saw the photo that Spurs dropped um but before kickoff when everyone was suddenly like does this
Mean what we think it means and you just see the Lance they were all just like in a of b benen car in the middle just like cool as you like in this sort of like puffer jacket walking along the sidelines and you can tell the rest of
The lads are just like that’s big brother like that’s that’s that’s the guy like that’s him um yeah there you go there there’s just say wild I hope uh me riffing on your love of Rodrigo benano there was uh was good um Juan Hodges massive for Benton C to come through
Unscathed 55 minutes under the belt yes yes yes agree with that mate agree with that big time um Newman come on you Spurs I love you jack I love you too mate thank you very much um to Ean yes chat gold trim kit Mega [ __ ] lws very much agree very much agree
Um look this is uh oh there just a lot of people very very happy here very happy I’m just saying um Mark Curran not so happy says sell skip in January um with a he’s done a little okay which some I know some people say it’s got uh
Dodgy connotations but I don’t you know he’s saying okay in this instance I would say um oh whitefoot um says bigger need for Gallagher now I don’t know yeah I don’t know about that one I’m not as keen on C Gallagher as a few people are but you know whatever whatever you
Know let them they’ve Spurs have recruited well for the past few years so let them let them do it right let them choose okay um Tony Stark says anyone else feel God some of these are just young boys when vill went off in tears exactly that mate
Exactly that like Charlotte and I when we were watching it we just like at the end of the day right he’s he’s a little boy is he like he’s he’s halfway across the world he’s he’s probably absolutely gassed because he scored a goal last week he’s thinking
Like right I’m gonna get more of a run now Sonny’s off to the Sonny’s off to the Asia cup um there’ll be more opportunities to me here unless you know spur signs somebody and then he’s gone I reckon done a hammy do you think it looked like a hammy but he was so
Distraught he was so distraught and you think it must be such a such a [ __ ] to be that young to probably be missing home a lot this time of year to I don’t know just to be in the hail to be in the hail over here having
Done your hammy I don’t know I think you know it is what it is I know I know like look Latin people are very very emotional people right we are I can I can allowed to say this all right but anyone’s allowed I don’t know I’m not getting into that right very emotional
People heart on the sleeve probably thez crying like that is you know a product of of culture and everything as much as it is a reflection of his actual kind of how upset he is at that point right is it’s probably a careful balance but yeah
I I agree with you like it was sad and I did think God he’s he’s just a little boy and it was nice I think for an to give him a nice hug and just like you know even if an was probably thinking Bloody wimp do you know what I mean like
Um he uh he gave him a nice big hug and all the you know I think Lelo and Ben enko were there to you know really sort of pick him up give him a good one and SAR as well you know SAR in tears might
Be I don’t know if that’s going to be it depends what you know what sort of injury he’s got but that could be his afcon um which I know we all have a moan about our players going you know halfway through the season and all this type of
Stuff but on an individual level come on it’s it’s such a it’s such a privilege and such a joy for these Lads to be representing their country um especially for a young lad like a lad as young as s 21 to be playing in sort of you know I
Mean he did play in the World Cup didn’t he not I don’t think he was didn’t don’t think he played a massive part in the world cup but um I think he was being tipped I think you know a lot of people it seemed to be from Twitter and
Everything are all quite excited about um sa on an international level and everything like that I think he was kind of one that people keeping an eye on and if he is sort of you know going to miss that I mean it’s a shame for him um and
It’s always do you know what because when people say well you know if they if these players are going to be missing International Football that’s good for Spurs I’m not always sure that it is though right because I I do get the Temptation and
There is on a sort of like shitty and a bit it’s a shitty part of me that thinks like you know when when our sort of players can’t make international football and they can’t play in these friendlies or this or that the big tournament’s a bit different I do feel
Bad for the players in the tournaments but maybe more when it’s like friendlies and things like that I do kind of think oh well it’s good for Spurs right you know used to annoy me when Romero would go and just play in like friendlies for Argentina and stuff like that I think
Come on man like you’ve been injured for months and months and months and now you’re suddenly look we don’t need to go back there but you know the point I’m making right um but there is that part of me I thinks is it that is it that good for
Spurs though if a player’s morale is down if they’re sad about the fact they haven’t managed to go and represent their country if the fact that they’re sort of coming back from injury and their whole focus is Spurs and if Spurs if their format Spurs isn’t that good or
Spurs is form as a team isn’t great and they get kind of stuck in that mire I think bigger picture-wise the players get to go back to their sort of like their national team training camps you know link up with old friends learn from other players learn from like more
Especially in the case of s learn from more experienced International Players to get that I guess to get that that inspirational feeling of like I want to be one of the leading men for my my country like if they get that sort of it within them they bring that back to
Spurs and they they really kick on in every I mean I don’t think s needs that s’s been absolutely Sensational but I’m just using him as an example to make a wider point in that I just I think there’s there’s a careful balance between us as fans which is our you know
Generally is our prerogative to want the best for our club right in an immediate sense each fixture you know is as soon as we’ve won one we’re on to the next right and what is it who is I think it it might have been con that said there’s
No as there’s no fixture as important as the next fixture right um and it’s true and I know that like in that immediate sense we want everyone all our best players available to us but there is that little bit of me it thinks like you know you also want your players to be
Happy you want them to feel like they’re achieving something that they have something to achieve in their careers that they have goals aspirations aims and Ambitions and yeah you know it’s hard for us to accept sometimes when it’s not always I want to win the league with Tottenham right but I think these
Things go hand inand like you know I want to win the afcon and then I want to come back and as a winner of that absolutely smash it for Tottenham in the second half of the Season not be kind of lamenting the fact that he didn’t get to
Go out and play there I don’t know did you know what I mean I’m sort of sort on a little bit um about that one but it’s uh you know it’s uh it’s a glorious one isn’t it it’s a glorious one um Tim Eaton um says was it you that said on Twitter
Let’s not get Gallagher and go for Gibbs white totally agree with that I can imagine him as an eight for an I really like Morgan Gibbs white I thought the thing is though I thought Forest had only spend because I was saying look if we’re going to spend 40
Mil on Gallagher why not offer 50 OD mil for Gibbs white um because I thought they’d I thought they’d signed him for 25 or so not in Forest but somebody said somebody said to me on Twitter and I know nobody lies on Twitter that they signed him for about
50 mil so that probably makes that one not very realistic umis say and E two of the big names as as generally are the case that got through about thrown back to me as well um I think Alise’s Man City bound isn’t he like you get that feeling about him
Man city or maybe Chelsea do you know what I mean um a people seem to have gone a bit more cold on him but I think his quality like I I love the pair of them I think they’re absolutely unbelievable um you feel like they both go very well in this
Team would there be a bit of a conflict between eay and kisi maybe maybe don’t know do they sort of operate in similar positions sort of either off the right or through the middle I’m not so sure um and I’m not so sure that e is better than kvki I don’t
Know sort of different players in a way um as they maybe a more you know I don’t know I I wanted to say like maybe he’s got a better end product but I don’t I don’t even know if that’s true um but whatever sign him um Callum thfc says
One point off the ass and yeah it’s glorious isn’t it for all the for all the [ __ ] we were seeing about them about little old Tottenham about an somebody called him I’ve got to say one one insult of an that did actually make me laugh was a some called a mate
Nance um which amused me a bit they’re one point off of us and I mean like last year their excuse was oh well you know we would have won the league if CBA wasn’t out but you know he’s playing now isn’t he he’s playing now Martin odard dipped
A little bit hasn’t he K have you know what I’m gonna say with them just to go back about on them a bit I kind of I feel like the the biggest thing the biggest [ __ ] up arteta has made in this is binning off Shaka and
Bringing in havs it’s it’s it feels it feels weird like havs let’s be honest and yeah you can clip this up if he scores a winning goal at whiteart Lane later on in the season or whatever fine you know havs is [ __ ] isn’t he like he’s
[ __ ] and it was it would seem really bizarre when they signed him for 80 mil or something however much they spent a lot of money on him weird one that Dean rice as well good player now Dean rice is a good player it was it was
Nice to see him have a howler against West Ham though um it’s quite funny that a it quite funny um Arsenal for Life says still below us yeah but one point mate like you lot been going on about how amazing you are right like Absolut like and you one point you’ve been going
On about how brilliant you are and about how bad Tottenham are but you’re one point one point above an injury ravaged Tottenham Hotspur and we are injury ravaged absolutely massively so um Luke Allen says I couldn’t resist dipping into Arsenal into Arsenal Reddit um one of the one of the comments he’s
He’s pulled out here is Etta promised to some [ __ ] Five-Year Plan so if I’m not seeing the Prem title soon he can go there we go I mean it wasn’t going to take long for that was it wasn’t going to take long for that um especially with unai
Emry tearing up trees at Aston Villa doing absolutely unbelievably there right um spur Simpsons on my e stuff e has only just signed a new contract um plus he’s injury prone um but that is our REM that is our remit mate that is our remit um
But if he had signed a new contract yeah he would uh he would cost a lot of money wouldn’t he he would cost a lot of money look yes just a good win good win very good win very good win words fail me at the moment but just delighted with that absolutely delighted
With that um delighted with with tottenham’s win also I was talking about F oh very funny right um should I do the Players let’s do the Players let’s do it go on uh julo Vicario didn’t have a lot to do today really did he but again what he always
Does well he does well um probably apt an at point to have a nod to Hugo Larice who I think I I think he’s his closing words to to Tottenham today with pretty poignant in that it’s only the the player Hugo L that’s left not the man
Because I’ll always be a Spurs man and I thought oh you know what because look I’m look it’s it’s probably not the time to say it but like I I’ve never been in love with Hugo Lise right I’ve always found him a bit of a cold character in a
Way I’ve always appreciated him as a as a player I think he’s a sensational shot stopper um I’ve never I’ve never really loved him and then I think I guess see he sort of closing mon like montages and just that those last little words from him I
Thought all right fair enough I think that that has got me a bit maybe I’ve internalized a little bit of this um an end of an era at least um so you know farewell Hugo but we are in a good hands now hey right is the season for a good
Old cracker joke is it but yeah um we’re in safe hands with Vicario who yeah just looks Sensational um I can’t really think about whether or not he did much wrong or right today Royale like Emerson kept playing all manner of like horrible horrible short back passes to him um which
He was dealing with and you could tell he was getting so pissed off about like so pissed off about um but uh yeah he he still managed to deal with it because he’s he’s class isn’t he he’s really really good Emerson Royale this sounds this sounds almost
Ridiculous to say I almost feel like in some ways he was worse today than he was the other evening um I felt like he was a bit more erratic tonight I feel like so the way I’ll qualify this is is that I feel that against um Brighton he was just kind of getting
Shown up for not being a natural Center back for not being an amazing Center back or an amazing Defender at that but was still kind of sort of trying to put in a performance I felt like today like I say I just felt like he was
Quite erratic I felt like he kept doing things like I say these sort of like really under hitb passes to Vicario to sort of dwelling in possession in sort of dangerous areas of the pitch not really kind of monitoring who he was marking not really almost like he was just a sort of
Like a a training cone of sorts like I just I just didn’t I didn’t think it was a good performance from him today um and I still carat all this by saying that you know as an just said he has stepped up and he’s done a job in a
Position that he’s not comfortable or familiar with and fair play to him for that the only point I’m trying to make is that I weirdly almost think he was worse today than he was against Brighton in some ways um so that’s that really um Ben Davis I thought was really good
Today actually I thought it was really good performance from him um I don’t really know if he was called on to do much um but I think he kind of I think he he tracked San well a couple of times um and yeah I just think it was I
Think it was a standard kind of solid Ben Davis performance um pedoro just you know he’s brilliant isn’t he I think he he helped out Royale a lot and the way he gets down the wing the way he kind of I think he kept taking on I’m not sure who it
Was that was playing for Bournemouth but he kept in somebody he’s a lovely player lovely lovely player um similar with Destiny ad doggy who I was a bit worried to see pulling up at one point hopefully that isn’t going to be again one of these type of injuries like with Romero where
We hear after the match that he’s got some because it looked like a hamy maybe I think it was with a doggy but he he got up carried on didn’t he um so you know maybe maybe just a bit of cramp cu that’s what that’s what they were speculating
About sorry my throat’s very dry um speculating about on the television I don’t think like I don’t think it the thing is the thing is about right about this is is like you say something people think that you’re making some like point about the player in general I’m just sort of saying about
This afternoon that I didn’t I didn’t feel like it was a a vintage of doggy performance right if I’m honest but I think he was good at what he what he did and he is babysitting really especially like it’s it’s not and it’s not even like a dig at Royal and Davis’s
Individuals it’s them together like that defensive unit with just those two needs extra care and attention from porro and AD doggy and and that does affect their game respectively like both of them um so you know I just kind of think that’s you know the way I would look at
It um Pape matar I just I love him man I love him I so gutted see him go off lovely finish he’s just got the legs on him man like I say like the the way in which he manages to sort of carry the ball forward but not only that when we’re out
Of possession the way he gets back to break up break up opposition kind of counterattacks break up opposition play passages of play all of it he’s just I think he’s I think he’s a brilliant young player he showed today playing alongside Ben enor how much better he is and then
Versus like the Brighton game when I think he started to come under a bit of flack um for you know people saying he can’t deal with presses and all I don’t agree with that at all I don’t agree that Pape matar can’t handle op press I
Think he can I think he’s a I just it’s it’s it’s it’s mad to me to think he’s 21 years old um I I do really I wonder what his ceiling is because he’s such a he’s such a brilliant player um he’s I said on Twitter and I I do
Agree with this I think he I do agree with myself yeah um biger me he uh I think he’s one of the best young players I think I’ve ever seen sort of Step Up at Spurs I really do I think the sort of the the the calm Authority that he plays
With has no right to have that at 21 years old do you know what I mean like he’s just he’s he’s Sensational um backs himself I love how ballsy he is with his passing um I love how direct he is when he is you know in possession of a
Football always looking for forward passes always looking to move into space in an advanced position he’s brilliant he’s he’s brilliant I think he’s I think he’s Sensational um I really do love him he’s he’s one of my favorite players honestly um and Luke Allen says we look it’s great to have B
And Co back but I think we’ll really miss SAR over the next few games and I do yeah I agree um 100% Deus wild says the eventual Madison Benton Kar Midfield is going to be Sensational yeah I mean that’s it’s mad isn’t it it’s mad um that you know basuma might actually be
The the the casualty is that is that what we’re saying I don’t know um might be the player that sort of steps aside for that but Sensational Rodrigo benen Co you know I was waxing lyrical about him at the top just lovely to have him back what a presence
Um a lovely footballer just great good smart time to bring him off you could tell he’s not fully fit you could tell he like he doesn’t fully have the legs there yet but the fact he’s back the fact he’s managed 58 minutes Sensational Giovani Lelo mixed bag for
Him today I thought um obviously have to shout out his amazing assist um absolutely Sensational at a very very important time for us as well so he deserves that I I do like his marauding runs I’ve always said that of him they remind me weirdly of Gareth Bale when he
Gets on the ball and he’s got a bit of space ahead of him the way he can just kind of gallop into space with the ball um I think considering we’re always very quick to dig out Brian Hill for his lack of physicality I find it’s like I do think
Lelo gets away with that a little bit um I maybe I just noticed it more today um but it felt like he he he got knocked off the ball very easily quite a lot in this game um and I don’t know if that was partly him just you know exercising
A few dark Hearts trying to trying to go down get as a you know a few whatever free kicks in important positions and all that type of thing at various different times um but yeah I do think he I do think he took a tumble a few too many times a bit
Too easily but look for the most part I think he was very good I think he kept the ball moving around very nicely he the way he sort of knocks the ball about is always very clean always very crisp technically very gifted footballer um again like I say the
Assist was Sensational so you know fair play to him and he gave and he gave elz a nice big cuddle when he came off the pitch so Props to that Sonny um son lovely goal lovely finish probably wasted a couple of I’d say at least two golden opportunities before he
Got that goal which is somewhat surprising from him um but I think my main sort of observation about today is he never stopped trying but he looks knacked man he looks I don’t know if he’s carrying a bit of an injury or if he’s just fatigued I think we you know people have
Been sort of speculating about his ankles and stuff being taped up and all that type of thing I saw thread on Twitter some people saying look at Sonny’s ankles they’re all taped up he’s playing through this kind of pain and suffering and other people are like all
Players like tape up their ankles what are you talking about you melt um so but I think it’s probably somewhere in between right I think we know he’s he’s been carrying a little bit of a knock um since who was it they play was it um in that preseason not a preseason friendly
But in the International Friendly I can’t remember he picked up a sort of injury there from that late tackle on his ankle um so maybe he’s still still just wary of that um but I do think he’s you know he’s getting on as well he is getting on
Probably a mixture of it all pack schedule carrying a bit of a knock getting on a bit he just looks tired he looks like he needs a rest but he’s flying halfway across the world to play in the Asia cup so you know is what it
Is everything I was saying at the top you know about players representing their country and I mean look son you have capped in your country and you have won an International Tournament with them right I we can be a little bit more annoyed of you no no I’m not I’m just
Joking just joking um we’re gonna miss him we’re gonna miss him that’s the thing we are um and I don’t really want to think about that at the moment if I’m brutally honest because yeah I don’t really get I don’t really get what we’re going to do um with not here but we’ll
See Brennan Johnson I think he got an assist there didn’t he an assist for the third goal I want to say for Rich charon’s goal which was nice I do think he was largely Anonymous today is that harsh is that harsh don’t know tell me tell me um but I do feel
Like yeah like I say I do feel like he was he was largely anonymous um he didn’t do an awful lot and I know it’s one of these he didn’t do an awful lot aside for assist a goal which is his job so right completely take that on BS um
But I just he just seems to be lacking in confidence a bit this is what we sort of everyone’s been saying you know we’re not inside a player’s head but it feels like he’s lacking in confidence a bit and and getting an assist today will probably give him a bit of that
Confidence back and look we sort we’ve spoken about like Sonny going off to the Asia cup V is going off injured Brenan Johnson’s going to play an important role isn’t he so you know let’s just get behind him um and yeah hope he can main not
Maintain but you know kick on from here there we go Oliver skip uh he he looked better he looked actually better funnny enough um alongside Hyer I think when he first came on it looked like the game was passing him by he looked a bit all over the shop um I
Thought he was going to get sent off at one point I’m not going to lie um felt like he was a bit rash a bit panicked in there sort of stepping in for S it felt like he wasn’t really 100% sure of what it is that he was supposed to do very
Different type of player to s I don’t know if you can ask him to to to to do what s does um and it showed right it showed that he I think when we were trying to play a bit more progressively if you like he he
Was sort of struggling a bit um when Hyer came on and it felt like there was a bit more structure there if you like um it seemed to be that okay those two are there to sort of hold the Midfield together one of them can roam forwards
As and when needed or just as naturally occurs they can do that um it felt like they were a bit more aware of what it is that they were supposed to be doing it it almost felt like skip steps onto the pitch alongside bentan Kern’s like oh
You know um he’s got Balou players running at him and everything so yeah it was again like like as I was saying of LEL so a bit of a mixed bag for him but I think he was I think he was okay um okay Newman says everyone at the pub
In Memphis hates skip he’s a perfect depth player won’t cause a fuss for not starting six out of 10 when he plays though what more can you ask for and I think that’s the point I always sort of default back to as you said there Newman
Mate like I I just think he is good you know and that’s all right so K have some good players not everyone is going to be Rodrigo benen Co and we’re seeing more skip because of the injury suspensions and the like that we’ve picked up along this season
Um whatever you know just it’s just the same old thing saying Time After Time on skip really isn’t it so whatever Pierre Moy be as I’ve said and I don’t say through gritted teeth I I do say earnestly good performance when he came on I have always maintained that he’s
Better coming off the bench he helps us sort of shore up a game sh up a fixture um and that’s what he did today but with a plum a plum um he was very very good not only did he sh up the fixture he actually provided the foothold for Spurs
To go and get two more goals um so you know credit where it’s due find Pierre mooy you’ve won this round I’m not going to [ __ ] about you today or even 50s Round of Applause well done um Robert says I can’t hate skip agree um Ben says one point behind the scum
Not too bad is it considering we we’ve been down to the Bare Bones for seven weeks agree mate absolutely agree can’t like can’t argue with that it’s what was waffling on about at the start it’s just it’s beautiful it’s be there’s a beautiful beautiful symmetry to days
Like today it’s like do you know what it is you know like to to use another like fantasy football analogy when you Captain somebody and it’s kind of worth double points Arsenal losing when Spurs win is like a sort of captaining effect it’s it makes almost makes our wind feel like
Two times you know it’s like it’s just glorious it’s like look it just brings this smile to my to my face already I just that trollish satisfaction you get from thinking about how miserable they’re all going to be right think about them think about them now right they were all probably half of
Them all the away lot they’ve all been on the tins all day and whatever else getting all kind of like filled up to go to F them away think all right we’ll dispatch this lot we’ll see the Arsenal win away and Fulham we’ll all be like
Nice and merry by that point and we’ll crack on into the rest of the evening for New Year’s Eve and we’re gonna have a class one now now they’re gonna have a [ __ ] evening and it’s just true it’s just true any football fan knows it any
Football fan knows it the just how much it ruins ruins the rest of your day ruins your evening right you can all go out now Spurs fans go out and have a laugh after you and I’m sure up and down up and down dance floors throughout the country across across the world right
Wherever you are people when it gets to midnight and I mean I know Midnight’s already been for some people so you know for this half of us after you’ve had a few on the dance FL just get a nice old round of D show about the Arsenal going and I
Guarantee you you’ll see that one that one Spurs fan across the pub or the bar that’ll be like yeah you might make a friend for life you know you might also get a smack in the mouth depending on what type of Pub you’re in and who you’re surrounded by
But you know it’s the risk we take isn’t it it’s the risk we take but uh it’s it’s just glorious it’s lovely the Tottenham win and an Arsenal defeat hang on Tottenham win and an Arsenal defeat all on the same day lovely lovely lovely lovely stuff
Have I missed anyone out yeah have have a night Eric Dyer came on 8C minute um I think he was fine would he although as soon as he came on Alex Scott did score so I don’t know how much that’s his fault or not I can’t really remember
Alex Scott by the way you little rat don’t you got all this my family are all Spurs I’m Spurs fan of my whole life you [ __ ] miss it right all this you know when all the commentators were saying all this like oh he’ll he’ll love this coming back to Tottenham his Boyhood
Club I don’t think he’s ever played for us but you know he’s always loved Spurs think he’s is he from gy Jersey one of the two isn’t he Isa man maybe um apparently a Boyhood Spurs fan and they was saying oh how nice would it be
For him to get a goal today why why does he want to score against Spurs right you know I’m still at at 38 years old I’m still holding out hope that maybe I can make my debut in the Premier League at some point you know still
Working got a good five years left of me um and if I if I was coming on for you know let me if I was to be kind of modest about who might sign me and play me if I was coming on for wolves say right Wolves at White heart Lane against
Tottenham I just have a stinker you know who want to I don’t all this BS about oh they’re not really fans anymore when they become play never leaves you does it never Leeves you at all at least he doesn’t seem to leave any of the [ __ ] players that used to support arsenal
When they were growing up none of them doesn’t matter who they’re playing for they can’t help themselves going on about Arsenal especially when they score one against us or want to play like [ __ ] two times as well as they normally do when they’re playing against us
Um but all we get if people are supposed to be Spurs fans scoring goals and wanting to score goals against us could you all just leave us alone what have we to hurt you all I mean we all know we’ve all been hurt by Spurs haven’t we that’s
What it is isn’t it [ __ ] answered my own question there that’s what Scott’s doing Scott is taking out all that how old is he was he old enough to seen things like Sal Campbell going to Arsenal maybe not probably not old enough to remember that actually I’m sure there’s much misery
That he’s experienced as a Spurs fan that he’s thinking [ __ ] you lot I’ve had to support you and you’ve put me through all this and you didn’t even sign me me you didn’t even try to sign me you needed a player like me and you didn’t even try fair
Enough he looks class though doesn’t he he he actually looks like the real deal um and ever so many people so many people involved in like youth football and stuff we’re all saying how much of a ball we dropped not signing him um because he’s going to cost an
Absolute mint from Bournemouth Now isn’t he um good player but still little rat scoring against Tottenham what are you doing fella have a word with yourself have a word hope his dad has a go at him um don’t I missed that richison I started talking about Subs before richison good okay today nice
Goal he frustrates me a little bit saying I just don’t think he reads the game very well I don’t think his positioning is particularly great A lot of the time but he tries f um and good goal Rich vayer form five and five for Rich Arison now so fair
Play to him and uh Newcastle Newcastle play tomorrow I think so I have to see how many Callum Wilson scores then um there you go who else came on Brian Hill how did he miss that how did he miss that I don’t get it how it’s e
Harder to say this last time I said one of these things on here somebody was like oh and you would know how hard or easy it is to do something on a football pitch didn’t really need to read it in that voice did I but I get the point
It’s fair enough you know podcast man tells Premier League footballer how to do his job but you know look we can all say this [ __ ] come on we’ve all play five as side right you know like how did he miss that how did he hit the crossbar from there um and Adam
Nathan on Twitter I remember his prediction I can’t remember who it was we playing one of those like dogm Mark Europa conference games when Brian Hill first signed and he had a really really good game I don’t know if any of you remember he had a really good game but
He fluffed like every time he got in front of goal and he had like in this game in particular he had like three four golden opportunities to score and he kept on fluffing these opportunities but played well otherwise I remember that evening Adam Nathan said uh he’s never going to score for Spurs
At least that’s what I thought he said he’s yeah he he feels like one those players is never going to score for Spurs um and it you do get that feeling I I asked Adam about that during the game he said he actually said he does he won’t
Ever score more than five goals to Spurs which seems very kind right now doesn’t it um I do think I do think Hills you know I think he’s okay we’re going to need him so is what it is isn’t it um does he have a long-term future at
Tottenham probably not right it’s kind of starting to I don’t maybe even it’s a little bit Hasty now but it it kind of feels like just the way his career’s been the back forth going out on loan how old is he let’s see how old he is he’s 22 he’s 22 years
Old to be fair to him actually [ __ ] it he’s got plenty of time he’s got plenty of time to come good I think honestly I thought Brian Hill was about 24 25 he’s 22 right he’s fine it’s it’s give him we can give him more of a chance than that
I’m not going to write off his Tottenham career right now um it’s fine isn’t it it’s fine but look we’re back there we’re back where we started in it’s Tottenham three Bournemouth one beautiful win um which puts us where does that put us in the table now that puts us fifth one point
Behind the US [ __ ] man city man a game in like for all this just such a they’re just a hor like they’re like the [ __ ] T1000 aren’t they Terminator 2 they just never stop ever we’ve all been F everyone’s been focusing on about no they’re not going to do it this year
Their heads aren’t in the game properly they’re third third with a game in hand not on Liverpool admittedly but a game in hand on Aston Villa it’s just they’re just obscene aren’t they um but Arsenal one point above Tottenham bit of a better goal difference but still halfway through the
Season sitting in fifth place 39 points considering there was even a little inkling for me at the start of this season Harry Kane going an unproven in the Premiership Premiership [ __ ] hell show my age now Premier League an plus kogo was that bit worry of me of
Like if this doesn’t go right right this this could go one or two ways could maybe go into what we’re seeing now or this could be horrible like we could end up and especially when we were conceding you know a fair few goals in preseason and all that type of thing at least
Goals in a certain way we were hearing about how an plays this expansive style it was just that little bit of me thinking could this be a bit oie ades I don’t know um no pun intended and it hasn’t been we’ve been brilliant we’ve ridden and are still riding the injury and suspension
Storm and we’re looking pretty bloody good for it like I I do think some of the starting Els we’ve fielded in the past few weeks have no right to be sitting fifth place in the in the Premier League they don’t but here we are and you have have to say
That is probably most likely almost definitely down to the work and Brilliance of an POA kogo so it’s going to be an exciting second half to the season isn’t it I think it is nice to win the FA Cup although is it just me that feels that we could just
Get done by Burnley annoyingly like in the cup that I mean that can happen that is an actual you know possibility i’ would like it not to be I would like us to win the FA Cup actually i’ would like us to win the double is that too much to ask
For but I just say this now we’re not out of it right we’re not out of it I was thinking do you know I if I was thinking today if we lost today if we lost to Bournemouth I was like that’s it we we’re like fully out of it
We’re back to like now like scrabbling with West Ham man united Brighton Newcastle probably Chelsea who I think is starting to look a bit better but still right now I think we can still look up I do think we can um got that nice little cushion
There got some good big players to come back there’s a lot to look forward to there’s a lot to look forward to um hopefully we’ll be signing a few players in the next couple of days as well seems to feels like it’s it’s going that way
It feels like it might be one of those windows where we just get business done nice and early but look we’ll save that for another day um for now thank you everybody for joining in um thanks for sort of listening watching everything across this year um for
Getting involved for putting up with my incessant prattling um be it here or on Twitter or wherever um if you think it’s bad spare a thought for Charlotte who has to live with me um yeah thanks thanks for the support if uh if you are interested do have a patreon patreon.com rtrp pods
Fine great um if not don’t worry about it just share the pods leave a rating leave a review if you’re on YouTube like And subscribe all that type of thing um have a happy New Year have a healthy and a happy 2024 if it’s been a [ __ ] year for you 2023 let’s
Try just in a kind of you know in a twe Instagram meme let’s leave that year behind us and look to the Future it’s going to be a good one hopefully for all of you hopefully for Tottenham Hotspur for all of us happy New Year much love come on you Spurs up the
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Scott wants to impress Spurs because he would like to play for us. Shop window.
Happy new year Jack 😊 2024 might be kinda good #coyfs