LondonLax

It makes sense to play long ball if you have crouch and defoe up front. Crouch wins a lot of knockdowns and defoe is very good at getting a shot off from a loose ball in the box.

Spurs fans think a lot of things...

Especially with the 'Property Boom' and the millions coming in from Stamp Duty Tax, Brown should have made sure that some of that income be put away for the feckin mess we are in now. The Austrailan Government did this and thats why they are not in the debt we are.

The fact that Australia has massive mineral reserves to export has nothing to do with that...

And the UK government had a massive financial market bubble it was skimming off.

The difference is, the Australian government was putting away its pennies (cents) for a rainy day whilst the UK government went on the biggest spending spree in UK history with its new found wealth.

I always find bickering between rival fans about whose club is best so so tedious.

It's not like the fans have anything to do with the success of the club (not directly anyway), it's usually whether they were lucky enough to support a club that turned out to be well run and have had good management over the years.

Also, which club you chose to align yourself with was your choice anyway so there is no real superiority to be had from a Man U fan telling an Accrington Stanley fan their club is so much better (or any other set of comparisons in between!) as if the Accrington fan didn't know the deal when they started supporting the club.

It's all just really pointless.

Having said that, I wonder how many candidates / MP's would get married (at all/quicker than they normally would) for the sake of their career - probably an awful lot of them.

It is a factor, probably not for many Villatalk members but there are enough votes out there for whom it would be important for their PM to be seen to have "strong family values" (what ever that means).

Can someone explain to me why they did not strenghten their defence this window?

The back four are their big weakness and if money is no object why have they only bought a winger and an over the hill midfielder?

They've tightened up with Mancini in there and have Kompany playing CB who is probably their best CB at the moment. I can't see Lescott getting in the team when he is fit. It was never about the players, it was the fact that Hughes couldn't organise the team defensively at all.

I don't really agree, they have had players out and are making do with that young centre back but he looked very shakey against Man U in the semi finals.

The only times their defence has been really teasted under Mancini was in the semi finals and against Everton so I think there is room for improvement there.

When you supposedly have unlimited money I can't understand why they wouldn't get some better quality options at the back.

Can someone explain to me why they did not strenghten their defence this window?

The back four are their big weakness and if money is no object why have they only bought a winger and an over the hill midfielder?

When Laursen was on form I truly believe he would walk into any team in the world.

Totally agree. Hmm, although you could just about say that of Richard Dunne as well

Couldn't walk into the AC Milan team could he???

Yes, Laursen's style of rushing out of the defencive line and winning headers doesn't go down so well in Italy.

As I said just going over to London tonight so dont have a ticket or wont be able to get one off any other source than at the ground tomorrow. Seen on the fulham website there that it says that it is sold out. I dont mind where i seat (just want to watch the game).

What are my chances of picking tickets up at the gate tomorrow?

You might as well go have a look see befoer kickoff.

My head says man u win in regulation time but my heart thinks we can take them to penalties if the defence is on top of their game.

I'm going to wait till after they are out of the FA Cup before I am gloating. If they avoid Chelsea they will probably go to the final.

Where do you start with that story??

Got there in the end. Probably could have scored a few more by the sounds of it.

Delph sounded great on the feed.

I will not be happy if Guzan starts at Wembley.

Ha ha, they have a player called "Dicker"

He must have been bullied at school

Unless he went to school in Brighton of course. Then he would have been very popular indeed.

Haha!

I keep getting visions of the wire every time McNaulty gets the ball.

Get in Delph

God sakes brighton, who are ya gonna injure next?

Ashley Young from the sounds of it...

Welcome back Davies

Typical Spurs showed no backbone against the plop last night. Could at least done with a draw.

It is a pretty good result for us though.

We are 2 points off 4th with a game in hand, I'd have taken that at this stage in the season if you had asked me in August.

Unfortunately we have a tough period comming up against Arsenal, Fulham away, Spurs Away and Man U.

We might have fallen back down by the end of that lot

As good as Gerrard allready IMO.

Yeah right

We would have had very different results against Arsenal and Liverpool if it was Gerrard running the midfield in those games instead of Milner.

Milner has been great in the middle against weaker teams but has not been able to take control of a game against top opposition yet.

Lets hope that develops.

Go down on the saturday and make a weekend of it.

Let me know what pub you all get to on the Saturday night and I will come out for a beer with the visiting Brummie hords

MON sounds strangely crestfallen on the radio.

Probably just exhausted.

Crazy game. Got there in the end. Milner and Dunne brilliant as usual.

I thank Guzan for all his amazing efforts so far but I think we need our best 11 out for the final.

I don't think Man City want to sell their player of the season, they have no reason to and he is still very young. He is only just coming back from injury so he will probably feature more regularly in the second half of the season.

It's funny how BNP members and the like have such similar views on justice to the Nazis.

Ever been tempted to breast feed her dante?