Comments on: Match Review and Highlights: Tottenham Hotspur 2 Leeds United 2

By: dc samuel

dc samuel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:30:34 +0000

Harry decides to take Defoe off penalty duty with an announcement in the Guardian:

“I haven’t told Jermain yet but I will have a word with him,” said Redknapp.

Great man-management skills again. Just like slagging Pav off in the papers! Harry loves journalists more than his players. This would be okay if he’d proved himself as a genius manager, but most of these players have finished fifth in the league or higher – which is more than Harry’s ever done.

Is anyone else worried about some of his wacky decisions recently?

By: Shorts

Shorts — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:23:22 +0000

Sorry, senior moment – date was 9th January 1971

By: Shorts

Shorts — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:22:04 +0000

Don’t be too sure about winning at Elland Road too easily. The match statistics ( on your own website ) reveal that over all the years on record, Spurs have played away against Leeds some 48 times, and
Won 9
Drawn 16
Lost 23
Goals for 51
Goals against 75
So rest assured it should be a pulsating game, played in front of a full house – what a fantstic atmosphere.
Having been born in Leeds over 62 years ago, and a Leeds supporter ever since, I now live in South Africa. On 9th January 1970, I watched my first & unfortunately last game played between Leeds / Spurs at Elland Road, which ended with a 2-1 away win for Spurs, thanks mainly to the fantastically agile performance of Pat Jennings ( who was the England keeper at that stage, if my memory serves me right ), assist by all the woodwork, that kept Leeds from scoring despite their possessional domination of almost the entire second half, in front of a crowd of 43,867. Thankfully, despite the lowly status of Leeds in League One ( for this year only ), this game will be shown on our local DSTV and promises to be a cup-tie of note. MOT

By: DAVSPURStherumourmannwcockerel

DAVSPURStherumourmannwcockerel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:14:09 +0000

This year is baffling everybody in football we all no the FA has a History of giant killing throughout its long History .And if it was the only in the cup and teams where not playing way above there ability then we could all get caught up with the ITV Commentators bias towards the Minnows especially Jim Beglan..Whenever Leeds had a break the two Commentators got excited and when Defoe got brought down in the penalty area Beglan said the player got the ball yet replays showed it was a stonewall penalty he then backtrackedand this was the same all the way till the drama in extra time 6 mins of 5 its time Refs had the time keeping taken of them would Fatty Whiley have given the penalty in the SPURS end we will never nowho allowed the LEEDS fans to dominate one end of the goals done us no favours all Leeds goals came at that end and most of Leeds goalkeepers saves .The Leeds fan singing to whiley its Fergiewhen the board wennt up time was a classic bit of banter that in my mind earned Leeds a replay and Granada more Football .Yet again we have another Manager telling the media they are a club in the wrong division trying to explain is teams upsurge in form after Carlisle and Exeter defeats .This will happen a lot more because this is the desperate side of the season and every team will be Energized like the last three games have bean teams are stopping us from playing with every player faster and goalkeepers springing like cats to thwart goal bound shots and the FA there testers fall silent and ignore the reason for all these gaunt looking teams winning and drawing with there best players missing yet we have a couple missing and we miss them strange and it happens when we can steal a march on our rivals also strange could be having a team with a oil field has a check book chasing the golden top four.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:08:44 +0000

Good review, with a couple of exceptions. Keane’s goal was correctly ruled out for offside as the player who crossed it was proven to be in an offside position when the ball was passed to him. Perfectly clear on TV. You should have had a second pen though (foul on Defoe). Don’t be too hard on Jenas. It was not his clearance that led to the first goal for Leeds – it was actually Lee Bromby who beat him too it and flicked it into the 6 yard box for Beckford to score. I agree though that he was still rubbish!

You should still win at Leeds and frankly we are more concerned with League 1 so you might be doing us a favour. Don’t expect an easy game though – ask Liverpool who were very lucky to win 1-0 earlier this season, and only then after our pefectly good goal was chalked off (wrongly) for offside. Both of us are well capable of beating Bolton, so a real incentive there. Leeds have played Blackburn, Burnley, Liverpool, Man Utd and now Spurs this year and lost once – 1-0 to Liverpool.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Good review, much more balanced review than I seen on another site were it was claimed Daws had an exceptional performance. yeh right,

By: Stoney

Stoney — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:15:10 +0000

Jenas was absolutely shocking. A disgrace to the shirt. That boy couldn’t pass a parcel let alone a football. Apart from the goal crouch was shocking too. His flick-ons and distribution was just plain awful. Super pav deserves a run in the team. I can’t believe harry can’t see this.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:18:20 +0000

Good read and balanced review. Hope the replay is as entertaining and won’t be gutted if Spurs win. I just want promotion and the Cup games are hurting us. Not financially but in something more valuable right now – points.

Ed (Leeds supporter)
ps Luv ‘Arry