New Season - Same Old Tottenham!

[Michael P]

C'est vrai mon ami

[Louise]

Michael,

Woodgate is in my opinion England's best defender when he is fully match fit - which isn't very often. He's brilliant, his shocking fitness record is what has wrecked his career.

If it were up to me I'd pay his sky high wages even for 10 games a season. I rate him that highly.

[Lesley Foster]

Hello Peeps,

I have just returned from a week in Sharm el Sheikh on the Red Sea swimming and snorkling in a fish tank and lazing beside the pool. The different varieties of fish was amazing and I am now waterlogged and sunburnt!

Whilst I was obviously upset to learn that Spurs lost I am too tired to worry about it at the moment. Let's hope they play better on Thursday.

Andrew, it is indeed a small world, what's your brother-in-law's name, perhaps I know him. If you'd rather send a pm please do.

Lesley.

COYS

[Michael P]

A good day for us both Louise. Well done to Newcastle and Glenn Roeder.

Any chance of hearing from the COYS mob?

They have become remarkably quiet these past few weeks as they always do when things start to go wrong, as they always do

[Lesley Foster]

I'm still here you don't get rid of me that easily

Lesley.

COYS

[Michael P]

Good for you Lesley.

I hope you had the chance to see a great team win yesterday ( and I don't mean Chelsea).

[Lesley Foster]

Michael,

I didn't get to see the whole match but I switched on just in time to see the goal.

A great team, we'll see

Lesley.

[Louise]

Thanks Michael, Sunday really was a great day for both our teams - and quite unexpected from my point of view.

Hats off to Roeder, conducted himself very well. West Ham thugs - sorry, "fans" showed themselves to be the idiots that they are.

As a Newcastle fan I've had to watch Dalglish dismantle arguably the most entertaining team the Premierleague has watched, then witnessed Gullit drop a 28 yr old Shearer, then the farce that was Souness, but under no circumstances would I expect any proper Newcastle fan to try and attack any of these former managers should they ever return to St James' and wave to their own fans. Pathetic!

A really great result for Arsenal. It must be even sweeter knowing that they did it wiithout Henry! Congrats!

[Michael P]

Louise, I heard about the West Ham fans going mad. The trouble is the whole world is going mad so nothing surprises me any more.

It seems in this day and age you have to be so careful about what you say and do.

I can't imagine it ever occurred to Roeder that he would provoke such a reaction.

Funnily enough Arsenal's results have always been pretty good without Henry and rubbishes criticism that they are a one man team. In fact I think they could be better without him.

Lesley, one thing everybody is agreed on I think is that Arsenal are a great footballing side if not a great team. There is no team, certainly in England , which plays so sweetly as us. Man U thought they could outplay us and paid the penalty. If they had tried to kick us of the park as usual, they might have got a result

[Louise]

That's pretty much what we did to Arsenal at St James' last season. A wonder performance from Parker, a stunning save from Given and a sneaky goal from Solano got us the 3 points.

Typical Souness tactics - none, just go out and kick them. Worked though

I must admit, I don't follow Arsenal's results closely, but I have probably bought into the notion that Arsenal are heavily reliant on Henry. Nice to see that isn't the case.