Football

Fuck me!

I wish Defoe were a little taller, or a little bit more on the ball. He puts that away we're full steam ahead for a title challenge, confidence kicks on and we roll into this murderers row of a fixture list with a bounce in our step.

Now. We've got to take pride from a game we could have won, but ultimately lost..

First half was okay, lots of pretty football, but no real chances, couple of half ones, scrambled defense, but nothing dangerous. Didn't feel we were outplayed or overawed, at times we looked the home side.

Second half we start lively, walker loses nasri, doesn't track the run, sweet pass from silva, job done. 2nd goals a goal mouth scramble, ugly, but effective. Can see heads going down, typical spurs. Then Savic - who'd looked classy up till that point, making amends for his horror debut, misjudges the header, defoe's onto it and we're back into it. Confidence. Comes up, we get our swagger back.

Then bale scores a peach of a goal, and it's end to end, but with bales pace torturing the city defense it looks like only one teams going to kick on and win it. The. The Defoe miss. Fuck me he got sucked in by bales slow then dip of the shoulder and push on he gas. If he anticipates he scores, even then he misses by a fraction.

Chance is gone. 4mins of extra time and king who alongside Kaboul has looked solid all game takes away balotelli's legs, who could have been sent off for his step on Parker, which for the record I saw as accidental, but what do I know. Takes the pen and we've just shot ourselves in the foot.

Good game, really good to see the mighty spurs, playing football, Modric had a quiet game as did Parker and it was al down to vdv and bale to pull us out, but we played well and deserved at least a draw...

Roll on the other big teams..