Spurs dig into Benitez.

August 16, 2009

I love seeing Rafa Benitez go on one of usual moans about penalties and bad decisions after a game. It was if he had never had a break and just took up exactly from where he left off last season. This time Rafa’s rant referred to what in the old days would’ve been called a fair shoulder. These days however, in the world of the pampered Premiership prima donnas, it’s almost classed as a red card offence. Come on lads, harden up!

It was good to see Robbie Keane lead out the Spurs side and make it a very respectable 3 Irish captains out of the 4 teams on show today. He also had a decent game and carved some chances that he might put away later in the season when his sharpnes is better. He was replaced by new signing Peter Crouch with almost 20 minutes to go, which will remind Robbie that’s there plenty of competition for places this season in White Hart Lane. Hopefully it will spur him on (pardon the pun!) to better perfomances through out the year and have him in top form by the time June comes around.

On a lighter note, have a look on the web for Keane’s reaction when Spurs ‘keeper Heurelho Gomes has one of his now infamous moments of madness by sending Glen Johnson 3 foot into the air with a crazy lunge at his feet. Normally you would expect a team captain to argue and defend the corner of one of his team mates in these situations. But so clear cut was this one, and so crazy were goalkeeper’s reactions that Keane does not attempt to hide his anger and frustration and promplty throws his hands in the air in disgust and then collapses to the ground in a move most petulant 5 year old’s would be proud of. Indeed, it might even come back to haunt him when his own recently born son decides to look back on some of his dad’s career footage.

All in all a strong weekend for the majority of Irish stars on show this weekend. Whilst the good form may not continue all year, we can only deal with one weekend at a time. Hopefully Liam Brady will have been pleased with what he saw and can relay this back to Tardelli and Trappatoni while they are enjoying some tasty little Tuscan Chainti’s…Slainté gentlemen!

OVERALL WEEKEND IRISH PERFORMANCE: 7/10

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