Thanks Harry.

Pleased to see that Benty CAN score goals but he really was given a lot of time and space by the Canaries.

here's my notes..

1. fair play to Bent. but now let's see him do it in a game that matters.. so far so good.. i remain hopeful, open-minded but unconvinced..

2. the Spurs fans who started cheering every pass in the second half embarrassed us all.. there's nothing outstanding about ball-retention against Norwich..

3. Here we go again with Jenas..

4. Gio will be a star.. being nurtured at Barcelona is the bast footballing education a lad can get.. however the fact that they let him go so readaily has me worried.. do they know something we don't??

5. Berba was caught smiling on the bench..make of that what you will..

6. i'm glad we kept on to Ekotto.. i always said he'd be good and last night seems to have proved me right.. although again it was only Norwich..

7. Great to see Baler back in action..

8. O'Hara is eager but i still don't know..

9. Gomes looked sound enough..

that's all for now..

Reply to Bimmi:

here's my notes..

1. fair play to Bent. but now let's see him do it in a game that matters.. so far so good.. i remain hopeful, open-minded but unconvinced..

2. the Spurs fans who started cheering every pass in the second half embarrassed us all.. there's nothing...

lennon looked as fit as my mum, really sharp i thought. Fair play to DB, lets get behind him; i think he needs the yid army firmly on his side

agreed todd..

Bimi - yeah, only Norwich but get a grip mate; I feel suicidal after your comments. And as for contradictions "i remain hopeful, open-minded but unconvinced" what the fuck is that all about ?!

coys

Gio is exciting me! Comes laden with as much enthusiasm as talent. His name is going on my new jersey. Mdric, although a little light will be magic too. Its a pity that the fella from Darndale didn't stay on as he would have been magic latching onto to those balls knitted through the defence. We wait and hope. Bent could be the man to pick up the scraps as he did last night. And with the imminent arrival of Bently we look to have come from one of the worst midfields in the Prem last season to one of the best. The usual pre-season optimism is about the place now .. why do I get the feling its going to be different this year??!

We all have our opinions and we're all Spurs.

Normally I'd never slag off fellow fan's opinions or call them names, BUT watching some of our 'fans' interviewed before last night's game was more sickening than seeing Robbie 'I Loved Spurs, but now I Love Liverpool more' Keane, wearing that red rag.

I felt nothing less than ashamed to have those geeks affiliated with our great club and if any of you are reading now, go and take a running head first jump into your next moving spastic bus.

The game (especially the second half) was good though. Well done Bent.

Reply to theoriginaldannyboy:

Bimi - yeah, only Norwich but get a grip mate; I feel suicidal after your comments. And as for contradictions "i remain hopeful, open-minded but unconvinced" what the fuck is that all about ?!

coys

ok..

hopeful & open-minded that Bent will continue to bang in the goals like he did last night but unconvinved that he will..

it's a perfectly simple sentance..

Reply to OneDayRamos:

Gio is exciting me! Comes laden with as much enthusiasm as talent. His name is going on my new jersey. Mdric, although a little light will be magic too. Its a pity that the fella from Darndale didn't stay on as he would have been magic latching onto to those balls knitted through the defence. We...

It's going to be different because we have a very good manager and Gus !

Did John Kennedy play for Norwich last night?

"it's a perfectly simple sentance.." written by a perfectly simple bloke? what's happening to the real Berba then Derba? Is he still sulking? Warming benches? Has he gone yet? The sooner the fucking better. Anyway, great result last night Spurs - only Norwich, but who cares? Oh yeah - Bimi !!!

I hear Bentley is having yet another medical. SSN

anyway.. what were your views on the game Dannyboy?

Somehow it only seems like the real Harry Hotspur blog when Dannyboy and Bimmi are bickering.

Keep it up lads.

just like the old days ODM.. i miss blogspot..

Reply to Bimmi:

anyway.. what were your views on the game Dannyboy?

No idea, didn't watch it.

"Somehow it only seems like the real Harry Hotspur blog when Dannyboy and Bimmi are bickering." Bimi started it

Cheers for the link to the goals from last night Harry!

Some observations following recent events:

1. Not a flicker from Ramos sat in the dug out as Bent scores four. Read into that what you will.

2. Berba sat on the bench finally cracks a wry smile when he realises that he will be joining he former strike partner on a fat wedge and CL football. Who are we kidding does he really care about our club?

3. Gio looking really at home on the pitch and interacting with his team mates. Barcelona's loss...

4. Bentley medical. Worse kept secret in football that he is coming to us. Your shirt is on your peg!

5. No coincidence that Dos Santos, Modric and Gomes formally introduced by the club today. Takes the sting out...

6. Keane trying to be diplomatic at today's press conference. Biggest traitor since Campbell.

7. Incoming replacement strikers. Take you pick!

8. With spine of a side from last season King, Woodie, JJ, Baler, Hutton, Lennon, Thudd there are a lot of new boys that will need to bed in. We need to be patient. However knowing Ramos he will probably prove the doubters wrong (including you Defoe) and go and win us another cup and snatch 4th place from the Reds.

Reply to theoriginaldannyboy:

Reply to Bimmi:

anyway.. what were your views on the game Dannyboy?

No idea, didn't watch it.

"Somehow it only seems like the real Harry Hotspur blog when Dannyboy and Bimmi are bickering." Bimi started it

i did not!! I'm telling Harry..

Reply to theoriginaldannyboy:

Reply to Bimmi:

anyway.. what were your views on the game Dannyboy?

No idea, didn't watch it.

"Somehow it only seems like the real Harry Hotspur blog when Dannyboy and Bimmi are bickering." Bimi started it

Follow the guardian link below for the opta stats from last year. Bentley featured high above the only Spurs player in the list. One Dimitar "Ray Reardon" Berbatov. So we get 28 mill, lose a miserable nobber, pay 17 mill get a younger converted world-beating gooner who will do the whole job for us as well as being the highest number of crosses in the league for Bent or Palyuchenko or whoever teh 1 striker we play is. It is MAGIC business. We don't need Keano or misery guts, we just need a great lone striker who can nail them in surrounded by twinkletoed maestros.
Gomes
hutton - king - woodgate - bale
modric - jenas
bentley - arshavin - santos
bent

simply world beating - keep our 1st XI fit and we can beat any of them. Even lose a couple and we can juggle (Hudd/Lennon/Zok/Dawson/O'Hara/Paluchenko/Taraabt/Boateng/Gunter - all top class) With a bit of luck we will be top 3.

We lost 33 poitns from winnign positions last year (thanks Paul Robinson)and would have finished 4th on 79 pts with those in the bag. We hit the woodwork 15 times - another record. And our team is better this year.

Ah, foolish Spurs optimisim, this is my favourite time of the season, for until the 1st of September it always seem so clear that we are going to win the league.

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Give Bent a chance...Hell look what Ramos did with Freddie Kanoute!!!

Reply to Jerry Shearer:

Give Bent a chance...Hell look what Ramos did with Freddie Kanoute!!!

Sensible observation Jerry. JR we have faith, what else can we do?

I hope Juande sees Bent's display this pre-season and won't want to let another one slip like with Fabiano. Fabiano didn't seem to get a proper look in until Ramos came to Spurs, but then scored 34 in 44. Perhaps he wasn't impressing when he got his chance, was injured, or couldn't budge the massive strike partnership that was Kanoute and (er... playing as lone striker).

Dazzler Bent's 'crisis' last season in my view was probably two-fold. 1. the keane-berba partnership was on fire. As good as JD and DB are, there's no way that any manager in their right mind would break that team up when it was having a proper streak.
2. Money. Huge fee = huge pressure to deliver. Fair do's though, he put the goals away when he did start. Perhaps a decision was made to play him less then they wouldn't have to pay so much for him last season? i.e. additional payments based on apps etc leading to the max £16.5m?

Yes, it was only Norwich, and we'll see in the next month or so whether he features regularly and who he plays with. Red rag mirror says that Arshavin is coming for £19m in next 24hrs. Well done HH for bringing the price down - and here I was thinking that either the Dame was in Russia as a decoy, so we could get ourselves a spanish Villa, and that your phone calls to the ex-KGB lot would do nothing but increase Smoothbum's price. With Bentley due to sign today as well, anonymabbut's line up looks psychic-ly spot on.

More decent signings soon to show Robbo what 'rebuilding' can do. Hopefully they'll be the sort that won't lose the fire in their belly over "2 seasons or so". What a quote! So Ramos came in and told everyone what...that he would not put up with Tubs of lard and mediocre players in his squad?

What I am worried about, is a lack of experienced leadership. Perhaps Luka with his character is a contender for VC and Gio as our new pep-squad? From the vid, he reminded me of RK just by being first to jump on Bent every time he scored.

Robbie who?

'Notes and observations,eh...?' I'll have some of that...

General ones.. Stephen Fry isn't going to score from the stand. Roeder needs to bite the bullet and give the boyt a go. Ferdinand is a snide git and the sooner he's on QVC sellling reversible flip flops the better.

1. Goal one. Johny Two Saints gives us the first indication of his very fast footwork and his boundless desire to attack.

2. Goal two. The ballbearing they put in King's knee needs oiling.

3. Goal three. O'Hara's sheer will produced the assist. Benty demonstrates the sort of finishing that made him expensive.

4. Goal four. Poacher's choice. Bent missed a number of them last season.

5. I think JR was emotionless as he EXPECTED Bent to score endlessly against an outfit like Norwich.

6. Goal five. Lovely.

7. Goal six. Lenno's wicked ball to Gunter.

8. Anonymabbut: "One Dimitar "Ray Reardon" Berbatov"

9. Bob Keane is an idiot.

10. Zokora & Jenas both largely invisible against a Championship side.

Bentley, Milito and Arshavin is comming to Spurs! When Blackburn saw how much we got for K***e the prise for Bentley rise. Spurs are still "working" on Capel, Villa and Veloso. Spurs are looking for a defensman with class, it´s a lot of talk about Bremens Mertesacker.

I see SSN are running some rubbish about Bentley being on his way to Spurs. They've even made up some nonsense about a bid having been excepted.

Just to clarify Harry Hotspur and his made up sources got this all wrong. There was no medical, never will be and this player has never even been to London. Nor is he planning to.

You are an embarrassment to real fans like me who spend their entire empty life trolling the Internet knit picking and whining. Will you never learn?

Anon 00.00

Reply to Jerry Shearer:

Give Bent a chance...Hell look what Ramos did with Freddie Kanoute!!!

a good point indeed, god knows how good your brother could have been with the same coach behind him

Perfect - do you rate Mertesacker then? My fantasy football vote goes to Juve's Giorgio Chiellini from Italy - a country that dishes out good defenders for fun. Something in their water?

How good is Arshavin really? I watched a live tv stream of Zenit v Locomotive Moscow the other day, and he looked average at best - didn't track back. It also looked like he sweats acid - his eyes were barely open for most of the match.

As for Bentley - anyone else feel a bit dirty knowing that at least £5m of our good money is going to le arse? >