Calm down dear, its just a derby.

A positive article, my thanks TC, can't wait to see who the blaim boys decide to go after this time....By the way? Did anyone else get a flash back to Gascoine losing the plot in the FA cup when they saw Ady's challenge?

Liked AVB's aproach a lot. (sorry Raging) Did not like watching Bale carry on like a spolit brat at half time and getting right up the refs face, bloody stupid thing to do and what exactly did he think it was going to achieve?

good article

am amazed by how much you lot defend the clown avb, yet when anybody did that to HR last year they were scum of the earth. I am fans of neither but i am fascinated by the two faced approach of it all. Amazing.

jimmy-yid. Harry did a great job for 4 years. But in the ned he had run out of ideas. It was refreshing to see AVB go to 3 at the back with 10 men and attack Arsenal. Very different managers. Since you like neither, who would you like as manager of Spurs?

Levy gave Harry nearly £50million in the January transfer window in the infamous 2 points 8 games season (Harry conveniently always left that out )
AVB needs the same because between Levy & Harry our squad was left in a mess .
Sigurdsson & Dempsey shockingly bad buys , even though i`m surprised by how poor Dempsey is ,Siggy was predictable .

I hope we get a DOF back personally .Our transfer windows need improving

big c - agree, because DoF's actually sell players and we need to sell another boat load. AVB has one hand tied behind his back because we still have a massive squad with the likes of Jenas, Bentley, Khumalo, Dawkins and Rose out on loan. We also have a new crop of 21 year olds in Caulker, Townsend, Smith, Mason and Parrett who will need to be registered next season. AVB just needs to get the squad numbers down to 25 or below so he can manoeuvre in the transfer market. In my opinion we have so much to be positive about with a great group of core players. We just need 2 or 3 more and a fit squad to make it a really competitive unit.

Totally agree mutley. Also, a couple of my gooner mates have stated that they believe without the sending off yesterday they were in for a hiding and think we will get 4th. They are die-hard fans and season ticket holders. They said that all around them yesterday thought it was a hollow victory, but didn't stop the scum form cheering!!!

ledders77 - yes, ade can play on thursday

and I agree with you guys on the 4-4-2, teams just don't know what to do with it. For the 20 minutes both defoe and ade were on the pitch together yesterday, arsenal looked clueless at the back when they were up against these two. Same with the ade and saha partnership, we tore newcastle to shreds at WHL last season. And also last season against WBA and Fulham that partnership had succesful results...except last season we couldnt really use that partnership due to vdV, he was just too good to leave out.

2-4 at home against Chelsea. 5-2 against Arsenal. Last season 1-5 at Wembley against Chelsea. 5-2 against Arsenal. I hope you will get off your farking high horses and realise that you are indeed the laughing stock of London now. Let the big boys challenge for the honours. Always in our shadows. Always.

Where was this £50M that Levy allegedly spent in the Jan window when HR came in. That is perhaps what he told the tax man, or what the cooked books said, but just a point why did we make a bee line to sign 3 former, and recently "sold", Spurs players in Keane, Defoe, andd Kaboul. Answer because there were still massive proportions of the fees left unpaid, so they were re-possesions by consent, rather than purchases, so the £50M like so much that Levy says, is either economical with the truth, or more often a down right lie, or to be kinder if we must, creative accounting.

oops, typo, Chelsea are the laughing stock of West brom

On the back of Lamp lighters post, comes news that Levy is planning for us to play our home games at the Apollo Hammersmith, not certain about that one being true, but then chelski fans know everything.

Lamp's have QPR moved to the north of england? Surely the time has come for Harry Redknapp to take over, your 4 from 12, not the 2 from 8 he likes more, but it's a talking point, the star of david has more points. spu 4 life Read more: http://www.qpr.vitalfootball.co.uk/stats.asp?a=300190#ixzz2CaEh29Et

Just read that Bendtner is open about a move to spurs! How many of You would welcome him to the team?Just curious!

can't wait for this Ade-Defoe 'upfront' pairing to take off after Ade returns.... the synergies flowing to all the players are all too strong to ignore anymore.... if we can keep them in team together, 4th should be reached with a few games in hand. Arse players always raise their game against Spuds (but even then looked the lesser team against 11 men). they will go back to their stupor soon enough, bank on it

Yep, you forgot to add West Brom 2-1 Chelsea. I also forgot to add Spurs 0-1 Mighty Wigan and Spurs 1-1 West Brom.

I'm fed up with the stick already....we better beat Spam!!! no if's but's or maybe's - no excuses!

I like AVB,he just needs a chairman ready to move up to next level.Levy could have bought Suarez,Cazorla,Ruiz etc and for reasonable money.But he didn't.With those 3 we'd be nailed on certainties for champion league.You don't make the top table with second raters like Dempsey & Siggy.

I disagree jonathon01, but of course we will never know. I think that he wanted the break to go through the untried system of three at the back to ensure that the players knew exactly what was expected of them, if he had just made the changes in the first half it might have been chaotic. I think he would certainly have implemented the changes had we gone into the break 1-1 or 2-1

AVB problem is that he has inherited average players and old players and lost our best players.

Take BAE injury AVB has tried Vertonghen at LB which although he did ok he was exposed, he is a CB and that also left us short in CB as Caulker is young and Gallas, well Gallas is hopeless and Dawson although I love and prefer to Gallas is fantastic technically and lacks pace just like Gallas.

Naughton hasn't took his chances made too many errors after starting ok.

Then Walker has been pants and what cover do we have? maybe it is time to try another youngster, Smith. basically we have no reliable cover for our full backs.

Now I think with Kabule and Vertonghen and Caulker we are fine at CB with Dawson for emergencies and cup games but CB has been weak because we have used Vertonghen at LB and we have had to play Gallas.

So we need full backs imo.

CM we lost our best player there and we brought in dembele who imo is not as good but he is better than others such as Hudd. However, with Dembele injured we have had to have Hudd and he is not good enough. He is a Dawson a squad player for the cups. sandro is improving and doing well but how long is it before we lose him with the amount of yellow cards or red waiting or fatigue as Parker has been a long term injury so Sandro gets no rest. livermore was used to cover but he is not good enough, again a cup player at best. So AVB has not got the midfield he needs so very difficult for him.

Up top two strikers is criminal and one of them was late coming. now Dempsey and Siggy brought in as players to play behind a lone striker and non of them have taken their chances. Siggy I think was too expensive, not as though he had a few good season in the PL and gained his reputation. he may well improve and it may be just a settling in but another problem for AVB. Dempsey absolutely woeful, against Arsenal he gave the ball away outside their area and he stood still and watched, did nothing to win it back. Shouldn't be in the team imo and a very poor buy, can't see AVB getting much out of him. So more problems for AVB and now with Ade suspended and going to Nations cup we are so short. Imo I would draft in a youngster, nothing to lose.

Back to midfield I actually think Carroll would be better than Hudd but AVB has to be careful not to throw too much at him too soon. Short stature means he will take time to develop, be older than the average footballer before we see the best of him but he is coming along nicely.

The wings, no cover for Lennon or Bale. Townsend showed us nothing when given the chance although falque may come good but is he good enough now.

This leave the GK we have more than enough but who is the best now? AVB has not got any players he wanted imo. I would rather carroll play in the middle and put Dembele behind the striker when he is back. I can't imagine AVB would have gone for any of these players his job has been made difficult.

Start Carroll against Lazio, AVB. And Give Falque a chance...lt Lennon knows is has someone on his heels.

Who wrote this? Tactically challenge or mentally challenge? We needed Ade to be sent off to beat you? Funny we beat you a few months ago by the same score and you had 11 on the pitch. Is Cazorla still in Sandro's pocket mentally challenge? :-D