...and finally, the Arsenal game post-mortem

All too often, the game we most look forward to becomes the game we want to forget. I did invite comments in my match report of Wednesday night's game, and so many of you made the effort to respond, so I feel obliged to publish a representative sample to illustrate your feelings about the game.

The initial responses in the spursometer were highly negative, but improvement was seen after a little time, although the trend, and scores remain in the negative zone.

Federico Fazio drew the most negative comments and the poorest mark of just 3.5 out of 10. Examples included:-

"We need a minus option for Fazio, the millennium edition of Ramon Vega"
"Puzzling decison by the coach to pair Fazio, who always looks like he has a mistake in him, with Wimmer and change back 4/5 completely"
"See Fazio on the teamsheet, know we will lose"
"Fazio was so bad he shouldn't be allowed to play with the U-14's"

With the loss of The Capital One Cup from this season's calendar, Fazio's first chance to redeem his reputation will probably be the away trip to Azerbaijan in late November.

This comment about Vorm's inclusion particularly reflected my own views - "Vorm is not the 'keeper to replace Lloris even in these games - after all a goalie doesn't have to run around the pitch!". At the end of the day, the feeling will always remain that Lloris would have pushed Oxlade-Chamberlain's shot away rather than straight into the path of Flamini.

By the way, it was Flamini's first appearance of the season, as well as Fazio for Spurs. There was a bit of an "effing" difference in their influence upon the game! Flamini had never before scored two goals in a game for Arsenal, and only scored one last season. No wonder the Arsenal fans chanted "he scores when he wants!".

How we'd all love Harry Kane to start scoring again. Yes, he was certainly unlucky not to score when Kieran Gibbs managed to head Kane's second half scissor kick literally off the line, but without Kane's goals we do look like a side with all too few goals in our feet. Kane's 31 goals last season hid a massive defect in our squad's scoring ability.

Tom Carroll is not impressing the majority of voters, and this comment was made regarding Andros Townsend - another product of our academy:- "Because I have coached in the past and when I watch Spurs play, I end up pulling my hair out. I see players trying to beat another player when a simple pass will do. E.g. Townsend and he ended up watching as the scum broke and scored."

Regular correspondent Peter Coton doesn't hold back - "Here was an opportunity to put one over the Arsenal and we totally blew it. Never mind this 'resting players before M.City' nonsense, this was Arsenal for Christ's sake. We had to win and with rag, tag and bobtail at the back, it was never going to happen. The manager has yet to tune in to Spurs and clearly picked an adequate side rather than one to win."

....and finally:- "I am re-listening to Pochettino's after match interview same old bull. He picked a very poor team and should carry the can. This is one game he couldn't afford to lose. So City at the weekend, Hmm, must go into the loft and get my Leonard Cohen records out for the Great Depression."

Personally, I enjoy Leonard Cohen's work!

The gist of my Manchester City preview, to be published later today will be to invite Spurs to "prove me wrong", because I too fear for our fate tomorrow.

Thanks for all comments received. Danny Rose and Eric Dier were voted Spurs' best players in Wednesday night's game.

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