From despair to rampant optimism in the space of two games? We're forever Everton.
Because if you let your mind drift to the dark crevices of late, we were really preparing the fort for a season to surpass all tosh before, then suddenly we start keeping clean sheets, scoring and beating the [Poor language removed] in that order.
It was genuinely enthralling and relieving to watch an Everton team that well drilled on Sunday, hungry for the ball and making most of the play, and importantly exorcising the mental block we sometimes seem to have against that lot. We need more of that, if the God of Injuries don't smite us with an absolute tw*tting to our players, as per usual.
Obviously being a blue has taught you to ground your daydreams a little and that would be prudent as a visit to White Hart Lane is a tough proposition indeed these days, as Spurs are a bit of awright.
In a way, they're the team that Man City want to be, packed with some real talent in a quality squad that play good football and get the results. Harry Redknapp, with his flotsam face, has brought an edge to Spurs that had been missing for beards and as a result, they have the small matter of Inter Milan in the Champions League midweek before taking on our good selves. Which will leave us wanting them to suffer one of them Euro Hangover things that the media talk about, as though they'd been on bar crawl in Benidorm the night before, drinking "local brand" spirits and waking up in a pool of their own piss. I've heard.
I made the case in the previous match preview of keeping a settled team together now and aiming for some consistency, all well and good but I clearly didn't factor in injuries. During the week we will find out if we indeed have any midfield left as Arteta, Osman and Heitinga had to be took off due to injury in the last game, to join Fellaini, Pienaar, Rodwell and Anichebe on the sidelines. So that will determine whether you see Neville at right back (and did any one notice how well he did in the derby?) or in the middle. Moyes seems to favour Jagielka and Distin at centre half, which won't do anything for Heitinga's supposed titty lip. Up front, Cahill and Yakubu are showing that our best 4-5-1 include a fit and hungry them. Saha may make a welcome return to the bench for this game.
Prior to last season we had built up a couple of years of grabbing results and pissing them off at White Hart Lane, it would be nice to return to that rather than the ghost of Robbie Keane scoring a shitty second half goal becoming the norm again.
Come out of this with a point or more and were placed well enough for a little run. Get into them Everton.
Because if you let your mind drift to the dark crevices of late, we were really preparing the fort for a season to surpass all tosh before, then suddenly we start keeping clean sheets, scoring and beating the [Poor language removed] in that order.
It was genuinely enthralling and relieving to watch an Everton team that well drilled on Sunday, hungry for the ball and making most of the play, and importantly exorcising the mental block we sometimes seem to have against that lot. We need more of that, if the God of Injuries don't smite us with an absolute tw*tting to our players, as per usual.
Obviously being a blue has taught you to ground your daydreams a little and that would be prudent as a visit to White Hart Lane is a tough proposition indeed these days, as Spurs are a bit of awright.
In a way, they're the team that Man City want to be, packed with some real talent in a quality squad that play good football and get the results. Harry Redknapp, with his flotsam face, has brought an edge to Spurs that had been missing for beards and as a result, they have the small matter of Inter Milan in the Champions League midweek before taking on our good selves. Which will leave us wanting them to suffer one of them Euro Hangover things that the media talk about, as though they'd been on bar crawl in Benidorm the night before, drinking "local brand" spirits and waking up in a pool of their own piss. I've heard.
I made the case in the previous match preview of keeping a settled team together now and aiming for some consistency, all well and good but I clearly didn't factor in injuries. During the week we will find out if we indeed have any midfield left as Arteta, Osman and Heitinga had to be took off due to injury in the last game, to join Fellaini, Pienaar, Rodwell and Anichebe on the sidelines. So that will determine whether you see Neville at right back (and did any one notice how well he did in the derby?) or in the middle. Moyes seems to favour Jagielka and Distin at centre half, which won't do anything for Heitinga's supposed titty lip. Up front, Cahill and Yakubu are showing that our best 4-5-1 include a fit and hungry them. Saha may make a welcome return to the bench for this game.
Prior to last season we had built up a couple of years of grabbing results and pissing them off at White Hart Lane, it would be nice to return to that rather than the ghost of Robbie Keane scoring a shitty second half goal becoming the norm again.
Come out of this with a point or more and were placed well enough for a little run. Get into them Everton.
