Sunday, February 24, 2008
Play Up!
Woodgate dispatches the Chavs.
Labels: Carling Cup Final, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur
:: Posted by pete @ Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Pure Genius
Labels: bad puns, jermaine jenas, soccer, Tottenham Hotspur
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Stuff Happens
Contrary to rumours, we've not travelled so far west as to fall off the edge of the earth. But, there has been a brief hiatus whilst the writer, editor and proprietor had another drink. Regular stuff (but not margaritas) will return sometime.
Meanwhile, Younes Kaboul lost his shirt, but saved Tottenham's blushes on the night the famous North London side celebrated 125 years of glory (tm).
Is it enough to save beleagured coach Martin Jol?
On the one hand, Jol has led the club to it's best ever Premier League finishes, to a UEFA Cup quarter-final, cup semi-finals and has the confidence of the players and most of the fans. On the other, Tottenham spent £40m to improve the squad over the summer yet sit 18th, which seems unlikely to dramatically improve in October as the club face Liverpool and Newcastle (both away) in their next two matches, Jol has lost the confidence of the board and the defence is a joke.
Replacing Jol seems a no-brainer (to the board) if a suitable candidate is available. But with Ramos of Valencia and Mourinho apparently uninterested, there is no immediate candidate. So, Jol will probably survive another few weeks.
Jol:
"...But my family are all in the Marines and a commander never leaves his troops. If he does that he's lost. I kept my head cool."
Late result, FA Cup 2nd round replay: Hitchin Town 5, Haverhill Rovers 0. Up the Canaries!
Labels: Martin Jol, soccer, Tottenham Hotspur
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Offside
On the radio the first Tottenham goal looked onside to me.
What is the top item that you think Motorway Service Areas should try to improve? Show your MSA dinner, too! But, where's Taunton Dean(e)?
Bog Roll: artistic use of the humble toilet paper.
"Best" blog on the web.
Last night at the Spitz: get there if you can and support the cause.
iPod-olatry
"King of Nothing Never" - Lambchop
"Pushkin" - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Trumpcard" - Jimi Tenor
"The Swarm" - Simian
"I Ain't Crazy" - Brute
"Darkest Dreaming" - David Sylvian
"Bittersweet Me" - R.E.M.
"Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach Orchester
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekkehard Ehlers
"One Chance" - Modest Mouse
"Bill's Mom Likes to Fuck" - A Minor Forest
"It's All Around You" - Tortoise
"Roman Candle" - Bedhead
"Tired Hippo" - Yo La Tengo
"Lyasnya" - Pullman
Labels: daily bollocks, iPod, motorways, music, toilets, Tottenham Hotspur
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Enjoy Your Pizza
Battle between EU Industry and Trade Commissioners over lowering the cost of energy-efficient light bulbs. German protecting his own industry at the expense of consumers and energy efficiency.
Bush pr0n
Another internet 10th anniversary. Yawn. Teh bloggers.
...the medium has radically changed publishing and communication. But not everyone is convinced ...For the blogging tribe, it's more like time to get out the red pencil, and dispute the premise of the anniversary itself.
Props to the Tottenham Massive.
Another football cardiac arrest? As Sevilla holds funeral for Puerta.
Rock Parque
Rubbish food: food rubbish.
iPodolatory
"Just Me and Phil" - Jah Wobble
"Dánarfregnir Og Jarðarfarir" - Sigur Rós
"Soot" - Sam Shalabi
"Cuban" - Sebadoh
"Worlds Melt Away" - Rothko
"Cadriopo" - Stereolab
"Buffalo606 - The Morning After" - Kid 606
"The Individual" - Spiritualized
"81" - The Marquis De Tren And Bonny Billy
"Knife Attack" - Timesbold
"Team Handed" - Mogwai
"Larks Tongue in Aspic Part One" - King Crimson
"Milkman" - Aphex Twin
"Threnody of Souls in Torment" - The Robert Fripp String Quartet
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, EU, food, football, internet, iPod, pr0n, Rock Park, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
A dead leaf trapped in the spider's web covering the rear view mirror.
Happy 10th birthday CSS: cascading style sheets what drives good internet style and what consigned flashing, nasty type-faced, table ridden web pages to the dustbin. Bring on True Type fonts and other aesthetic niceties. Or, perhaps we should concentrate on content that people will read.
The world's first ecologically sound prison. In Norway, of course. Prison should be about rehabilitation as well as punishment so a sustainable prison has a resonance to it. But, then I'm a limp-wristed liberal.
Berbatov is apparently staying at Tottenham, but JD on his way to AV.
Why we like chocolate.
British researchers ... found that the pleasure centres of chocolate lovers' brains lit up more strongly in response to the food than those who are less partial. "The take-home message is that if you want to limit [food] intake, you could limit the extent to which you are exposed to the combination of sight and taste. For example, you could eat in the dark"
Or you could eat dark chocolate.
iPodolatory
"Golfer Vrs Boxer" - Amon Tobin
"Camp" - The Anomoanon
"Anyway" - Genesis
"You Could Ruin My Day" - Four Tet
"Operator" - Grateful Dead
"Robot New York" - Add N to (X)
"Mogwai Fear Satan" - Mogwai (My Bloody Valentine Remix)
Labels: css, daily bollocks, environment, food, football, iPod, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Monday, August 27, 2007
We Know Where You Live Howard Webb
Opiniated football report follows.
Let's review Law 12 of Association Football:
A direct free kick is ... awarded to the opposing team if a player ... :
* handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)
...
A penalty kick is awarded if any of the above is committed by a player inside his own penalty area, irrespective of the position of the ball, provided it is in play.
Penalty dude. We're coming to get your guide dog.
On the positive side, Tottenham defended well for most of the game. There was only the occasional panic; much-maligned 'Keeper Paul Robinson had to make one outstanding save and only had one misjudgment that the Donut can remember. Anthony Gardiner - blimey - was strong, solid and hardly beaten. The patched up defence kept Spurs in the game.
Ricardo Rocha gave the odd heart flutter, but no costly mistakes (except in front of the Man U goal). Gareth Bale made several good runs down the left flank, but when presented with golden opportunity to put in a killer ball across the goal in the dying minutes he cut it back straight to a defender.
Dmitar Berbatov looked disinterested or frustrated for 87 minutes, then nearly turned the game with three pieces of sublime skill. The goals will come.
The midfield held firm in front of the back four. Yet, distribution was irratic throughout.
A good performance, but Man U (for once) were there for the taking - no Rooney, no Ronaldo, no bite in front of goal. Can it help coach Martin Jol avoid the sack? In the long run, probably not. It's Champions League or bust. What purpose would that serve?
Jol's guided the team to consecutive fifth place finishes. He's restored European football to White Hart Lane, helped attract great talent like Berbatov and Bale to the team and has the faith of the fans. This is a work in progress. I don't expect Champions' League football next year. Tottenham need to build for the long haul; assemble a better squad and develop younger talent. Jol's a vital part of the development.
Hot-Spur: Anthony Gardner (for once not the Cardiac Kid)
Tottering Clotspur: Ricardo Rocha (two misses: Row Z volley and free header wide from a corner)
Labels: Martin Jol, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur
Friday, August 24, 2007
I'm 100% Behind You ... (Pushing You Out the Door)
Oh shit. Tottenham Hotspur coach Martin Jol has received the kiss of death.
"Martin has my 100% support and I'd like the fans to understand that they need to take the last few days in the context of what we think has been significant progress over the last six years," [club Chairman Daniel] Levy said.
Well, that's that then. Spurs travel to Old Trafford for the annual 4-0 defeat to Manchester United. What, you expect Man U to avoid victory four games on the trot?
Gerry Adams airport hell. Yes, that Gerry Adams.
To quote a commenter: "I love post-mortems. The recurring death of English football is particularly entertaining."
More Steve "Steve" McLaren news:
"McClaren now has the worst record of any England manager after a dozen fixtures. It would have been folly for him to look full of good cheer when his side had just lost at home to an improvised Germany line-up but he hardly seemed traumatised."
Bused home via sunny Bideford.
iPod-olatory
"Exhausted" - Joseph Arthur
"Sim Gishel" - Autreche
"Foreign Hotel Garden" - Papa M
"Crest" - Tortoise
"Walk All Over You" - Mark Kozalek
"Valerie" - Broadcast
"Tomorrow is Already Here" - Stereolab
"First There was Jazz 2" - Wibutee
"Cody" - Mogwai
Labels: aviation security, Bideford, Gerry Adams, iPod, Martin Jol, North Devon, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur