Chelsea v Tottenham

By Andy
October 27 2004

Arsenal fans and players must have been laughing their heads off in their armchairs at home, or down the pub watching an expensive Chelsea team fail to breakdown a 100% defensive minded Tottenham team.

Right from the kick off you could see that Spurs had come for a point and that they would do anything in their power to achieve it. With the Ref's help, a certain Mr Riley, Tottenham surely did nick a point they didn't deserve. To be honest if it wasn't for a flying save from Chelsea's GK Peter Cech brilliantly saving a Robbie Keane header from a Simon Davies cross then Spurs would have driven away from Stamford Bridge, no doubt under police escort with three points safely tucked away in the kit bag.

JM's frustration seemed to get the better of him subbing YET again an impressive Joe Cole in the 65th minute replacing him with Duff and Tiago with Kezman who in turn was completely ineffective. Although Duff caused Tottenham problems with his left wing runs and super crosses, begging to for ANYBODY in a blue to get on the end of, Coley caused Tottenham no end of problems - showing class, skill, vision and pace. Holding behind Drogba and Gudjohnsen, Coley was buzzing. This boy is going to become a cult Chelsea hero, but only if he gets more than 60 odd minutes every game he starts.

Six games played, 6 goals scored, 14 points from a possible 18. Not bad you would think. No not for a 'normal' team. But with the expensive array of so-called talent at the disposal to JM something is wrong. In two successive Premierhsip games Chelsea failed to score. Ok they didnt concede either, but with the 'Arse' dropping two points against Bolton the previous day, three points against Tottenham would have brought Chelsea back on track.

Is Drogba an European enigma? Only doing the business on CL nights like he did against PSG. Although he scored with a super header, leaping like a salmon against the Palace, he surely can't get away much longer with the loss of the final touch where it matters - inside the penalty box.

I am afraid on today's performance Chelsea are OVERPAID, OVERRATED and the fans are OVERCHARGED.

Wednesday 22/9/04

How is this for a laugh. I have just watched Chelsea Reserves beat West Ham Reserves on their patch 5-1 and I have to say that Steven Watt looks class. Anyway, I have just turned over on Sky to see Keane score to make it 2-0 to Spurs against Oldham and then a couple of minutes later see Keane get substituted by Defoe, and the 'great' Chris Kamara say when Defoe came on , the hottest striker at the moment. Laugh!!! I did!!! Hottest striker!!!! He didn't even get a pass on Sunday, in fact he didnt get a touch. What does that say for Tottenham's tactics!!!

Just as I write, Defoe has just scored Tottenham's third. Well what does that say?? Scoring at will against a league side and not a championship side!!!

21:41 Final Score Oldham 0-6 Tottenham. It is such a shame Tottenham weren't as attack minded on Sunday. Does this mean I can sue Tottenham now, under the Trade description act, for pretending to be a football team one day and another on another day against lesser opposition.