Spurs Odyssey – Norman Giller”s Blog (No. 501

NORMAN GILLER’S SPURS ODYSSEY BLOG No 501
Submitted by Norman Giller

For months I’ve held off being too excited in print (okay, on line) about Archie Grey, for concern of placing an excessive amount of strain on his younger shoulders. However now his potential is so apparent I can’t assist however shout from the rooftops: “The longer term’s Grey.”

I might say he’s the very best younger Tottenham participant I’ve seen since a younger, angel-faced Steve Perryman made his debut as a seventeen-year-old “unknown” again in 1969. Steve went on to play a membership file 854 video games for Tottenham and skippered them in back-to-back FA Cup triumphs.

Younger Archie has solely performed yesterday’s FA Cup third spherical tie on the sloping, plastic pitch at Tamworth however already to this outdated man’s eyes he’s wanting (prepare for a brand new phrase) Perrymanish. Which means he’s a born chief.

He comes from a thoroughbred footballing household, and lots of moons in the past I used to put in writing about his granddad Frankie Grey and nice Uncle Eddie, whose ability on the ball for Don Revie’s sensible however brutal Leeds United was legendary.

Archie has introduced the glowing household footballing traits with him from Leeds and – together with Mikey Moore, Lucas Bergvall, Djed Spence, Future Dogie and Radu Dragusin – it means the longer term for Tottenham Hotspur is shining shiny.

And the way about goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky! He actually seems to be the enterprise and has but to choose the ball out of the Spurs web. He might give veteran goalkeeper Fraser Forster classes in footwork on the ball. Thoughts you, he’s an “outdated man” of 21.

Grey, particularly, stands out and I will probably be astonished if he isn’t captain of Tottenham inside a few seasons. We’ve got but to see him play in his favorite midfield position, however his emergency defending to assist Spurs by means of an harm nightmare has been thrilling and exemplary. Archie is getting an awesome schooling (just a little pun for the older of you amongst my readers!).

Yesterday’s go to to Tamworth was a banana-skin match during which Spurs might so simply have slipped to an ignominious defeat. Sadly, there have been a variety of Ange-haters who you could possibly sense had been really hoping for this end result. The vitriol the affable Aussie is going through even after the nervous 3-0 victory over the keen Tamworth part-timers is past my comprehension. What on earth occurred to good old school assist?

So lots of the supporters aiming for Levy and Ange (in any order) might be described because the enemy inside. After I get on a one-to-one dialog with any of them, I discover they’ve by no means performed soccer professionally, have by no means taken on a constructing challenge bigger than a loft conversion and don’t know of the financial system of soccer. And plenty of of them conceal in a cowardly means behind a defend of anonymity as they fireplace their wounding bullets on-line.

Do they not realise they’re bringing down morale and confidence with their everlasting criticism of the crew? Simply as dangerous are the ITKs who will hyperlink the membership with any participant for click on bait. I finished counting at 54 gamers linked with strikes to Spurs final switch window and never one in all them arrived at Tottenham. Do not imagine it till you see them holding a Spurs shirt. What number of of them acquired wind of Kinsky’s transfer? Not one which I do know of.

If any of Ange’s and Levy’s critics really feel I am mis-representing them and assume they know how you can run a soccer membership and a multimillion pound enterprise please e-mail me at [email protected] and let’s hear your facet of issues. Meantime, shut your moaning and groaning and do what true supporters do – assist the crew, NOT get in its means.

You possibly can learn our Spurs Odyssey guru Paul H. Smith on how Tottenham struggled however ultimately triumphed at Tamworth HERE. I felt sorry for the gallant Nationwide League crew, who within the good outdated days would have survived to a money-earning replay at Spurs. They deserved that a lot after 90+ minutes of sweat and toil.

However in the long run class informed, and it was ultimately Spurs who clinched a fourth spherical draw in opposition to Aston Villa at Villa Park. Now that IS going to be troublesome.

The Ange baiters will little question be again in full voice if Spurs fail to get at the very least a degree on the Emirates on Wednesday in a North London Derby that has come round too quickly. I want them laryngitis.

COYS.

Week 21 of our eleventh season of the Spurs Odyssey Quiz League, and the query is:

Who was the son of a prime jockey, the one participant to attain a hat-trick for Spurs in a North London Derby and what quantity Tottenham shirt did he normally put on?

Please e-mail your reply to me at [email protected] and make the topic heading Quiz Week 21. Deadline: midnight this Friday. I’ll do my finest to reply to all who participate.

The foundations are the identical as within the earlier ten seasons. I ask a two-pronged query with three factors at stake – two for figuring out the participant and one for the supplementary query. Within the closing weeks of the competitors I break the logjam of all-knowing Spurs-history consultants with an actual stinker of a tie-breaking poser that’s primarily based on opinion somewhat than reality.

This 12 months’s primary prize will probably be a framed certificates asserting the winner as SOQL champion 2025, plus three signed books to be revealed at a later date.

Final week’s query: Which Antwerp-born midfielder received 82 worldwide caps and from which London membership did he be part of Spurs in 2012?

Reply: Moussa Dembele/Fulham (Please notice for the file that I requested Dembele how you can spell his first identify and he informed me, “Everyone spells it with one “s” so I am going lengthy with it, however on my passport and beginning certificates it’s double “s”.”) (Ed:- All my information spell his identify with one S)

See you again right here on Monday. COYS!

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