Comings and Goings.

Coventry Cathedral completely rebuilt after total destruction:

Coventry City FC, no such luck just yet.

The JimmyG2 Column

 Not being actually there and with no television coverage or streams to gatecrash, makes this match review somewhat difficult. I did listen to the commentary on Radio London when I finally tracked it down but I will spare the blushes of the two participants by letting them remain anonymous.

There's always two presumably so that they can share the blame. Listening to the Tottenham /Coventry cup tie broadcast was like overhearing two 7yr.olds locked in a Wendy House for an hour and a half. By half time they had forgotten what they are supposed to be talking about.

Anyway I've watched the 34 second clip of the goals on ITV and read the newspaper reports and blog site critiques and I think I know roughly what happened. We scored three in half an hour and would have liked to have gone home but FA regulations prevented us from doing so.

Why ITV needed an anchorman and two pundits on silly money to review these blips of footage is a mystery to me. It made Match of the Day look like a serious philosophical analysis of a current social trends. A brief introduction and a voice over would have allowed at least an extra ten seconds of each game to be shown.

Anyway, Bale was the best thing on two pieces of sliced bread; Dempsey got a couple of cheeky goals; Adebayor apparently had more pressing things on his mind and everyone else did more or less what they had to do without breaking sweat or wind.

 Parker and Benny ran around a bit more than others but then they needed the exercise.. The hoodoo of 1987 much talked up by the press evaporated before it had had time rear its ugly head..

The return of Scotty and Benny gives the game a brighter gloss over painted by a final matt finish with the exclusion of Carroll and Townsend until long after there was any signs of life in the tie. Either or both could have started but AVB was not to know that before the game. 'To Dare is to do' it was not.

So we progressed 'ruthlessly'; 'professionally'; 'efficiently', 'coolly', ' with the minimum of fuss' depending on your preferred information source. Not words that have always been associated with Tottenham over the recent years. Long may it last, preferably with 'exciting and stylish added to the lexicon.

Nine changes from the previous team which won against Sunderland suggested that we might have hidden depths but it was after all an unequal matching against a lower league team whatever history may have been dredged up to suggest differently. Upsets do and did happen on the day but not at White Hart Lane this time.

Rumours: (Best Fleetwood Mac Album)

Adebayor

1. Going to change his mind about the Africa Cup of Nations. He seems to have gone already by the accounts of Saturday's game.
2. Is leaving us for QPR shortly probably on loan. ITK info. denied by another ITK, You pays yer money...

Musings likelihood rating; 1) 3/10....2) 1/10

Bid for Leandro.

Oh yes we are. Well we think about it every other window so why not this one? (8/10).

Moutinho

We're getting really serious on this one now. Levy is going to offer less than we did last time.

Yes that should work Daniel. Don't try this in Tesco's. (8/10)

QPR. 

Harry is having a clear out and is restocking with Huddlestone, Livermore, Gallas and any one else kicking their heels on the Tottenham High Rd. (5/10). Livermore (9/10). Better the devils you know.

Next Round: Away to Leeds or Birmingham. That's a fact not a rumour. (10/10)

QPR v Tottenham Forecast:
 Spurs 3-0

Jimmy's Video Spot.
And here it is in all its glory. ITV's 34 seconds. Is this what we pay our licence fee for? No,wait.
Unless you were there you know about as much as I do. ('Clint Dempsey pwning nOObs' apparently)
I would have thought  that was seriously illegal.