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Six goals in two Carling Cup games for The Beast but still not good enough for a Premiership start I see?

 

I'd trust Wenger to know what he's doing tbh. There's no one better than him at introducing players to this country and bedding them in properly.

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Six goals in two Carling Cup games for The Beast but still not good enough for a Premiership start I see?

 

I'd trust Wenger to know what he's doing tbh. There's no one better than him at introducing players to this country and bedding them in properly.

He's probably right - just a bit confusing really. Wenger stated not long ago he needed to work on his fitness.
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I don't do the whole trolling the Spurs forums thing, but I bet that somewhere there's a quality match thread knocking about with them going on about how great they are at 2-0 up, and now crying like a bunch of fannies. :D

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Love to see Arsenal turn this round for another 3-2 at the Lane. Paul Robinson is Billy Bunter an'all.

 

The away goal is massive like, totally changes the game.

 

Away goals don't count in the CC, do they?

 

Heard it mentioned in commentary that they do.

 

Although the BBC match report doesn't mention away goals so i'm not sure.

 

Still a good result for Arsenal regardless.

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Fabregas was sensational towards the end of the game. Cracking player.

 

Not as good as Huddlestone if you believe the Spuds fans :D

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Spurs fan on Talksport this morning: "Hopefully Jenas will be back for the second leg." :lol:

 

Weren't they slagging him off before he got injured.

Fans in having differing opinions on a player shocker. ;)

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Good read in the Express today.

Tottenham fail to sell out North London derby

 

In the days of Jimmy Greaves the North London derby was one of the biggest fixtures on the calendar. Since 1970 alone there have been 7 gates in the North London derby of over 50,000, prior to that in Tottenham’s double winning season of 1960/1961 saw a massive 65,962 see a 4-2 home win, while 72,164 saw the fixture at Highbury in one early fifties game.

 

For a lot of Arsenal fans the North London derby is still up there as the highlight of the season. With the influx of new fans since the SKY boom it is fair to say fixtures against Manchester United and Chelsea are as important or if not more so than games against Spurs.

 

However the same can be said of how Spurs view the fixture. As much as Tottenham fans hold the club in high esteem, the club have only managed to come in the top five once during this period. It’s fair to say they are viewed as a perennial mid-table club, who have more money than a lot of their counter parts but can’t seem to get it right. They have a good young squad, Martin Jol has give the masses hope for the future certainly, they’ve even began to sell out their little 36,000 capacity stadium on a regular basis something which was far from evident through-out the 1990’s.

 

There was a claim recently Tottenham had a season ticket waiting list of 30,000, a quick phone call to the ticket office reveals tickets are actually available for next season.

 

Tottenham’s last silverware was the League Cup in 1999 when an Allan Nielsen goal gave them a 1-0 win over Leicester City at Wembley. Like a lot of clubs who haven’t had a great deal of success like Everton, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Aston Villa, there’s a great deal of hunger for success. Or is there?

 

Surely this seasons League Cup is their best chance in years of winning some silverware. A semi final at home, surely the biggest fixture for Spurs fans in recent seasons, but not only that, a fixture against the bitter enemy, often described as the “Woolwich refugees”, surely 100,000 would want to attend such a fixture.

 

I think it’s fair to say given the nature of the tie, one step from the final the ticketing demands of Liverpool v Everton, Newcastle v Sunderland, Manchester United v Manchester City or Rangers v Celtic, would surely reach in to six figures. Not at White Hart Lane. The self proclaimed best fans in London failed to sell out their biggest game in years. On advice of the police, the ticket office stopped selling at 12pm yesterday and 800 tickets remained unsold.

 

You could argue that ticket prices are to blame, some of the seats unsold cost as much as £71, you could argue Arsenal use an under strength team in the Carling Cup, you could even argue, that Tottenham only had 12 days to sell the tickets. All of these are pathetic arguments, the fact remains the club couldn’t sell out their biggest game in years against their bitter local rivals, with tickets on general sale on the day of the game. If Tottenham had a ground the size of Arsenal, Manchester United or even Newcastle United, virtually half the ground would remain empty. Last night proved their little White Hart Lane base is perfectly adequate for a club of their size..

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No written by a leading national journalist, Scottish I think he is, absolutely nothing bitter about it at all. All it does is state facts. One of the best articles I've read in recent years

 

I will Alex.

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