Football

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

yep

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.

first half was boring. very little pretty football. but i'll take boring and uneventful when you're away to a team that's top of the league, unbeaten at home and with their GD this season. friedel made one good foot-save and they missed one wide but not much goal mouth action for 45 minutes.

bale far too central first half and noone else filling in for him on the left

Can see heads going down, typical spurs.

when they scored two in a row like that i thought we were gonna roll over like we did at home. very proud of them for fighting 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.

^this. didn't show on MotD but from 2-2 til the penalty we were definitely the side on top. bale much more effective when not trying to play tevez role.
and i thought we'd won it when bale crossed at the end and defoe was in the danger area. coming back from 2-0 down to win that late in the game would've been immense. and to draw level on points. AAARGH!

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.

yep. balls-up by king. first mistake was letting him get goalside like that in the first place. gutted to see that from a man whose positioning is normally second to none.

i didn't see the stamp at all at the time, not until MotD. it was too far from the away stand to make it out. got to say it looks intentional to me on tv, not a natural way to put your foot down when landing.