SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER, 2000
FA CARLING PREMIERSHIP
COVENTRY CITY 2 (2) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 1 (0)
Coventry scorers:-
Aloisi, 12
Eustace, 26
Spurs scorer:-
Rebrov, 53
Referee: P Jones (Loughborough).
Attendance 21,435
Teams:-
Coventry (4-4-2): Kirkland; Telfer, Shaw, Breen, Edworthy; Chippo, Palmer, Eustace , Hadji; Aloisi(Roussel 73,), Bellamy(Hendry 81).
Sent-off: Palmer.
Subs not used:- Zuniga, Quinn, Montgomery
Tottenham (4-4-2): Walker; Carr, Perry, Vega, Thatcher; Anderton, Freund(Iversen 76,), Sherwood, Leonhardsen(Dominguez 83); Ferdinand, Rebrov.
Booked: Carr, Vega, Perry, Anderton, Thatcher.
Subs not used:- Segers; Thelwell, Clemence
This report comes from Jim Duggan of the Spurs List. You can catch Jim's website here.
Just got back from my weekend in the Midlands which again made me realise
why Ginola was so reluctant to leave London! The "demo" was pretty quiet -
with a few anti Graham chants early on met with some resistance, although
there was much more anti GG stuff at half time. When it was obvious that the
protest was organised by TAG it was only ever going to be a publicity stunt
without any substance. George will be out pretty soon because he is making
us shite, Francis-style and this inept performance will be another dose of
bad medicine that eventually cures the patient of the Goon cancer.
Coventry scored out of the blue after 12 minutes when, Aloisi cut inside and
as Roberto Carlos (Thatcher) declined to make a challenge, he smashed a great shot
past Walker. Spurs again attacked without any width and only down the
right. Spurs' possession consisted of ooooofs from Thatcher in the vicinity
of Ferdinand who to give him credit won one of the 25 or so aerial
challenges, hospital balls from Sherwood, any number of backward or square
passes, with only Anderton and an increasingly deep Rebrov getting anywhere.
Coventry scored again after 25 minutes through a bloke called Useless, which
should mean Graham will snap him up.
After the second goal Coventry conceded much of the ball to Tottenham and
resorted to counter attacks. This cruelly exposed Spurs' lack of ideas and
the young keeper replacing Hedman dealt with most things pretty easily. (Ed:- This was Chris Kirkland's second game for Coventry, and his Premier League debut. I recall that Kirkland's father won a considerable sum of money when Kirkland made his one and only senior England appearance in the second half of an August 2006 friendly against Greece)
Spurs managed to pull one back with another 37 minutes left on the clock. Leo
found Rebrov in space on the left hand edge of the box and the little fella
belted the ball home. With this amount of time remaining, we should have
managed to at least get level against a team like Coventry. On a rare
Coventry counter attack, Walker saved well and Perry cleared the danger from
the rebound. Perry had a good near post flick from a corner and we created a
few other half chances before Sherwood got the ball in the net, but probably
fouled the keeper in doing so. Iversen replaced Freund and Little Jo came on
for a late cameo.
Palmer got sent off for kicking out at Perry. The bloke behind me saw Perry
belt Palmer a little earlier as they chased back after a Spurs attack.
Whatever the justice of the situation, Palmer is an a***hole and deserved
his sending off for crimes against the English football team in the early
90s. There was still time for Sherwood to hit the bar with a late header
from a Carr cross, but like the game at Leeds Spurs did not get the
equaliser they probably deserved.
I was dismayed at the end of the match that only Perry and Carr gave half-hearted thanks to the 4000 or so of us who travelled up and sung our hearts out for 90 minutes. They might not like our "fickle - not putting up with
second rate shite" attitude but its up to them to prove us wrong like Armo did to great effect last season. Did Graham put them up to this to generate "team spirit"?
Things are going from bad to worse and Graham has no idea how to reverse
this - press statements have gone from "trying to get a top 6 team" to "when
I took over it was relegation threat season after season so be happy with
this crap". A good start would be to never pick Ferdinand, Vega or Fatcha
ever again - all £15m of talent that they undoubtedly are.
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