The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yeah we had most of the difficult games at the start and now in the middle of a lovely run of games with: West Brom, Bolton, Stoke, Sunderland, Chelsea (home - 3pts then), Norwich, Swansea, West Brom, Everton and Wolves before we play Man City on 22nd January.

We could quite easily be 2nd by then.

[Lineker]

Except it's the lower tier of teams such as Sunderland and Wolves that trip us up. Our biggest weakness is complacency and has been for years.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The last two years the problem has been lower level team goalkeepers playing their best game of the season at White Hart Lane.

[Lineker]

And that!

That performance last year was ridiculous.

Also, just looked at our end-of-season run-in. It's lovely. Swansea , Sunderland (A), Norwich , Bolton (A), QPR (A), Blackburn , Aston Villa (A), and Fulham . Really optimistic for the top four, for the first time in years, I see no real flaws in our team. We just have to keep it together.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I've never ever been happier with Tottenham's squad.

Or Assou-Ekotto's hair.

[Lineker]

Yeah I saw that on his Twitter before the game:

AssouEkotto Benoit Assou-Ekotto

Tonight disco is bk lol no time about my hair LOL com on u spurs lol

21 hours ago

On a side note, @AssouEkotto is something everyone needs to be following. lol.

[Plubby]

He tweets lol like a 12 year old lol.

Lol lol.

lol.

[Lineker]

So funny tho lol.

Press Association reports that Nicolas Anelka could be set to join Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua in January.

[stokeriño]

Would surprise me. He's been rejecting moves to other clubs, including his old favourite PSG, for a while now and everything I've read has seemed to indicate that he's intent on seeing out his contract to the summer. I'd expect a move to the US after that.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Bk from France so naturally straight to sale place eat my Malaysian food loool I ll b kum Malaysian if I continu lol

lolz. he wud too u no.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Brilliant.

[MDK]

Him and Super Mario need to have a tv show.

[Lineker]

BAE > Super Mario.

There, I said it.

[MDK]

But you are obviously biased

[Lineker]

No it's becoz it's fkin true lol

1412 GET INVOLVED: Arsenal.com on Twitter Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on Jack Whilshire's bet with Spurs fans: "Jack made a contest [his bet regarding Tottenham] I hope the charity will get a lot of money because Tottenham have a lot of fans. #bbcsportsday"

Go fuck a railroad spike, old foreskin face.

[Lineker]

The Daily Mirror are reporting Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean has signed a new deal at the club.

Really.

[Berober]

I reserve judgment because this was the same website that reported Gareth Southgate was a suprise candidate for the England job.

[Lineker]

To be fair that would have been a massive fucking suprise

[DavidMarrio]

Supposed to be getting a bit of a pay rise as well ain't he Steve Kean?

Also why is Benoit Assou Ekotto knicking my old gimmick of always putting "haha" after most stuff but changing it to lol....bastard

[Jimmy]

Yeah, Spurs just need to avoid their horrid run of form they sometimes get (last year towards the end of the season.) It must be quite nice as a Spurs fan knowing you have depth to your squad as well. I mean, you've got a clear first 11 which is very rarely changed - but have the likes of Sandro, Kranjcar, Dos Santos and on his day, Pav or Defoe to come on. A few young kids coming through as well who're getting a good run out in the Europa League.

Arsenal are on a great run of form at the moment and Van Persie is on fire, but I do worry about the depth of the squad if they got hit by a few injuries, especially RVP. That being said, they do have Wilshere and someone else to come back.