Football Daily | Spurs live down to underdog billing as Arsenal paint town red
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Since comfortably beating Aston Villa at the start of November, Tottenham Hotspur have won only two of the 11 Premier League matches they’ve contested. Well, played in or at least turned up for. Indeed, a good lawyer might argue that technically they haven’t really won any because one of the aforementioned victories came against peak b@nter era Manchester City, while not even Spurs were capable of doing anything other than swat the current Southampton rabble aside, a feat that is not so much something to be proud of, but more the equivalent of helping yourself to the pennies covering a dead man’s eyes. Having taken just eight points from their previous 10 games, Ange Postecoglou’s knack-depleted team went into Wednesday night’s north London derby as firm underdogs … and duly lived down to their billing.
I would never dare doubt the accuracy and reliability of statistics from Big Website, but some of the match stats from the Holsten Pils Kiel v Dortmund game that you directed us to in Wednesday’s News, Bits and Bobs (full email edition) seem more inflated than a Roman Eagle handler’s tackle. By my maths, this works out at a shot every 52 seconds, a corner just shy of every three minutes, and more than a foul every minute. Pity the poor set-piece coaches and magic-sponge carriers, they’ll be needing a second winter break to recover from the exertions” – Neil McGwyre.
I’m not sure I need to get involved in this, but perhaps Thomas Ayre (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) meant to say that Lazio didn’t have the ‘cojones’ to sack the eagle/fascist bloke, rather than ‘cajones’, which would mean they didn’t have the drawers, or possibly coffins. Or maybe, as these are both Spanish, we’d be better off with ‘coglioni’” – Mark Taylor (and 1,056 others).
After Everton’s home defeat on Wednesday, perhaps David Moyes will actually need Leighton Baines to help him find a Pret (Tuesday’s David Squires cartoon) – as he has already lost his way” – Dedric Helgert.
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