:pl: :saints: Saints v Tottenham Hotspur :tottenhamfc: (Live on BT Sport)

Simon-says · 2 January 2020 10:34

This journo actually calls him out on it:

BTripz · 2 January 2020 11:05

Nice article but I must take exception with this line :-

Mourinho branded the 90 minutes “quite a strange game” where his team were in control apart from Ings’ moment of magic. It is now over a year since Tottenham last kept a clean sheet away from home in the Premier League.

Were they really in control apart from when Ings scored? I thought we matched them pretty well and were well on top apart from odd spells here and there?

saintbletch · 2 January 2020 11:10

Well he needs to do plenty of deflection - Sky reporting that Inter Milan have made contact over Christian Eriksen.

Simon-says · 2 January 2020 11:16

No you are right, they weren’t. That was as comfortable a victory against a top 4/6 team as you could wish for.

Even though I take nothing for granted when it comes to Saints, McCarthy wasn’t overly troubled and there weren’t many/any last gasp challenges apart from Bertrand on Lo Celso that I can recall.

Mourinho is just a transparent tosser. But that makes the win all the more sweet!

I do wonder what Sparkes said/did to deserve the ‘idiot’ label.

Fatso · 2 January 2020 11:45

Being honest, mourinho’s antics made me chuckle.

PhilippineSaint · 2 January 2020 11:47

What does a booking for a manager actually mean ?

Fatso · 2 January 2020 11:49

It means nothing. It’s a nice bit of theatre. I’d rather have the likes of Mourinho being a knob than the dark days of listening to that fucking dullard Puel.

PhilippineSaint · 2 January 2020 11:53

Did anybody listen to puel ? The team didnt

Simon-says · 2 January 2020 12:20

I did. Most bedtimes I listened to his press conferences, until I invested in the ‘Calm’ app to help me off to sleep.

Bucks · 2 January 2020 12:48

lifeintheslowlane · 2 January 2020 13:15

Be fair, he’s only checking for signs of life.

BTripz · 3 January 2020 14:42

Ings makes Garth Crooks team of the week :-

Danny Ings: For a striker to have scored more than half of his team’s goals when just past the halfway mark of the season is very impressive and that’s precisely what Danny Ings has done.

When you analyse the way he took his goal against Spurs you can see why.

Quite apart from leaving Toby Alderweireld in his wake, he then left Paulo Gazzaniga motionless in the Tottenham goal with nothing to do other than watch the ball pass him into the back of the net. A genuine striker’s finish.

Did you know? Since the start of last season, only Sergio Aguero (9) has scored more Premier League goals against the division’s ‘big six’ clubs than Southampton’s Danny Ings (8).