By Hughie Southon
@David_Rudnick “Fair play to Gareth Bale. Away for seven years but from the moment he stepped on to that pitch, with 15 minutes to go, initiating one of the greatest collapses in living memory, he was the spirit of Tottenham made flesh”
An absolutely beautiful quote but nowhere near as beautiful as THAT goal and the resurrection of Manu Lanini.
That – even at my mighty age and after watching thousands of games all over the world – was bang up there as perhaps – World Cup Final exempted – the greatest game of football I’ve seen.
Words are never going to express mine or anyone else’s emotions as I personally bounced off the walls of my apartment.
Every emotion possible had passed through me over that 90 minutes as we went from disaster to heroism and I am so pleased that it was Manu who put the icing on the cake.
It’s a fact the club have been looking to sell him as his form has slithered to shocking levels but last night he put us into a footballing heaven.
In that one moment at the very end of the game, as his totally sensational 25 yard shot smashed into the underside of the bar and over the line, his confidence and belief must have hit the roof.
David Moyes reacted like man of 57 going on 15. God only knows what went on in that dressing room at half time but we now know the Hammers squad are reacting to his brand of management like few before him.
Said Benrahma you may be business but it’s now an exciting possibility that the little Argentinian will be after your job. The options and prospects we now see are mouth watering which is why the quote above is so amusing.
The other beauty came from a Spurs fan: “We bring on Bale – they bring on Lanzini.” Oh my goodness what a morning this is after the night before.
And those of us who have had our doubts and worse about Moysie need to eat acres of humble pie as a result because after lockdown and into the new season he has provided us with the most joyful brand of attacking football we have seen in ages and ages.
Arrogant Spuds and there suddenly not so special One were stroking the thing around whilst the Irons battled, fought and got one of the greatest points in their history.
As someone wrote on the ClaretandHugh Facebook page last night: “We’ll need a surgical operation to get the grin off our face.”
I’ve been watching West Ham for 60 years, I’m 64. I thought I’d seen it all. Just shows how wrong you can be. When that free kick was coming in I said to my wife nothings coming of this. West Ham dont equalise from 3-0 down in the last minute, West Ham lose from 0-3 up in the last minute!! It’s the West Ham way!! As the man once said ” it’s a funny old game ain’t it Saint”
Can’t believe how sad you lot are. You haven’t won the world cup, you managed to steal a point off us in your cup final. We don’t even consider you rivals, just poor relations.
Lol was your bottle of wine off mate or is that just sour grapes ? It’s not a cup final to us, your just our smaller relation, the second biggest club in North London but if you want to think of us like that go for it 🙂
Oh please go on. In terms of sad reaction that beats all! Loool JUST SWALLOW IT LOSER. You’ll be saying next you are gonna beat us all up LoooooL. Bit disappointed are we diddums?
Just poor relations huh? Last club to beat you at the Lane, oh and 1st club to beat you at the New Lane, The club that destroyed your top 4 finish, not once but twice in the last few years. The club that ruins Bale’s second debut and sees you give up a 3-0 lead. Us poor relations must really be a thorn in your side. It’s happening again spurs And we’re not even a quarter of the season gone. You aren’t poor relations to us, you are the side that just keeps on giving. COYI
We need to savour these moments don’t we, Hopefully Moyes and his backroom team should will be rewarded with a contract extension long before January. I worry as things stand we may lose them at the end of the season because DS has someone else lined up as he did before with MP, Rafa Benitez springs to mind… Ditch your unrealistic ambitions DS if so and give us someone that is more grounded but is building something sustainable and at an appropriate level of where we actually are COYI !!!
If you are in heaven after a draw the bar is set pretty low.
Spurs fan? LOL
The bar is set just about right-ask Lanzini.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha – brilliant