Sunday, February 24, 2008

Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur

Congratulations! Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 2-1 in extra time at Wembley today to win the League Cup (aka the Carling Cup). Nancy and I watched it at the George & Dragon pub in Fremont (Seattle). Bit rough getting out of bed and down to the pub at 7 AM, but a hundred or so people did, about 2/3 Spurs fans by the looks of it. We roared them out of the house when Jonathan Woodgate bumped in the winner, a slow bobbler that came off Petr Cech's and then Woodgate's faces; it bounced once, twice, three times into the net. Spurs' first hardware since the 1999 League Cup.

Now on to the double: the UEFA Cup is next.

Next year we'll win some serious silverware as we return to major-club status. We're too good to sit down at eleventh in the table, and in the lesser cup competitions at home and in Europe.

2 comments:

ally. said...

the world cup a few years back that brought us games in the morning was a marvelous thing - loads of well intentioned juices that turned miraculously into beers by the second half. well done by the way. now if north end can just stay up...
x

Fnarf said...

Good for you, maybe; '06 games were in the middle of the working day for me, but in '02 I had to get up at freakin' four AM to watch. And then go to work.

PNE are safe, I can feel it. Really.