Domestic cups

[J.spurs]

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/sport/foot...in_league_cup_tie_against_liverpool_1_4724390
Spurs boss Pochettino set to trust his youngsters in League Cup tie against Liverpool
Mauricio Pochettino says he has no qualms about throwing his youngsters in at the deep end and selecting them for this month’s League Cup tie against Liverpool at Anfield.

The Spurs boss gave debuts to a number of academy products in the last round of the competition, on September 21, as the Lilywhites thumped League One outfit Gillingham 5-0 on home turf.

Eighteen-year-old centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers made his first competitive appearance for Tottenham and 20-year-old midfielder Harry Winks was given his first start, while 19-year-old Josh Onomah was also named in the starting line-up and scored his first goal for the club.

The three substitutes that night – summer signing Georges-Kevin Nkoudou, 21, Marcus Edwards, 17, and Anton Walkes, 19 – also made their first outings.

Spurs face a much tougher test in the last 16, having been drawn away against a Liverpool side who are not involved in Europe.

Reds chief Jurgen Klopp has therefore named strong sides in the League Cup thus far, and the Merseysiders have won 5-0 at Burton Albion and 3-0 at Derby County.

Nonetheless, Pochettino has suggested he will trust his youngsters again and give them a chance to show they are ready to compete against some of the Premier League’s established stars.

“For me, they are not kids or boys, they are players,” the Tottenham manager told Ham&High Sport. “To show and to prove that they can compete and have the quality to stay in the first team, it is the same to play against Gillingham at White Hart Lane and against Liverpool at Anfield. They need to show [what they can do].

“We believe in them and if my team is the same as against Gillingham or there are some changes, they need to prove they have quality. You know, always the big, big players start their careers [somewhere] and they need to make their debut sometimes in a difficult place like Anfield.

“We are involved in the Champions League and [Liverpool] are not involved in European competition so it’s a good opportunity for our players who don’t play too much, or the younger players, to build their reputation and build their career and confidence for the future.”

Sounds good to me.

 

[skiathospurs]

Bloody ridiculous,if in the EFL cup prem lge teams can basically put out an U23 side,how can this be right?
I remember before the 84 uefa cup final we got fined for putting a weakend side out (vs everton?) the week before,surely its down to clubs to put whatever side out for whatever reason as long as it is reasonable?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38002599
Luton and Portsmouth have been fined £15,000 for failing to field 'full-strength' sides in the EFL Trophy, with 12 clubs in total being punished.

Bradford, Blackpool, Bristol Rovers, MK Dons, Millwall, Charlton, Peterborough, Sheffield United and Southend have been fined £3,000 and Fleetwood £5,000.

Teams had to field five players who started the previous or following game, or five who had made the most appearances this season.

The clubs have the right to appeal.

The English Football League (EFL) say they considered "mitigating factors" and considered "transgressions that were not within the spirit of the rules".

Sides that did not put out 'full-strength' teams were liable to a fine of £5,000 for each group match by the EFL.

League Two Portsmouth and Luton and were found to breach the rule in each of their three matches in the opening round of the competition, with the Hatters' fine coming out of their £20,000 prize money for progressing to the next stage.

Pompey went out of the trophy after finishing third in their group.

'We are staggered'
Luton chief executive Gary Sweet said the club do not feel they should be "paying 'fees' to get our youngsters experience".

"We entered those teams with our eyes wide open and we accept that we would be fined for doing so," Sweet said.

"We are staggered, however, that we have been fined the maximum amount for our first offence, which was winning away from home at a club from the division above with half-a-dozen first-team regulars in their team.

"We played nine graduates of our academy in that game at Gillingham, and seven against a West Brom side containing four players, two of whom who were internationals and had been transferred for several million pounds, and still beat both."

 

[skiathospurs]

Also on BBC 2 at approx 7.10pm monday

 

[skiathospurs]

cupid stunt

slippers errr,nah flip flops out here....
fuck off all of you i am jet lagged....lol

 

[Dorset]

Do what geezer? Are you trying to make me feel like I am going more mental and forgetting stuff like where I put my slippers? Now where did I put them - do you know? Someone has stolen my slippers - was it you?

 

[Don Diaz]

Am I missing something? this isn't the FA Cup it's the League cup???

 

[Dorset]

Am I missing something? this isn't the FA Cup it's the League cup???

He is fucking with our minds, just because he has perfected time travel and can go back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we had not been knocked out the League Cup - cunt!

 

[skiathospurs]

It was the voices in my head......

 

[Dorset]

I'm looking forward to our CL quarter final against Real Madrid, can someone send a reminder back through time to Harry - don't play the lanky cunt!

 

[Dorset]

cupid stunt

slippers errr,nah flip flops out here....
fuck off all of you i am jet lagged....lol

Oooooooh fucking spooky! Looking at the posts on the page, this one appears BEFORE the one where I asked you what you had done with my slippers! If you have a warty nose and float then we will have to burn you!

You are either a time travelling witch, or edits re-order posts, get the bonfire started!

Edited to see if it goes back in time! NO It didn't so...... it's witch burning time!

 

[skiathospurs]

Oooooooh fucking spooky! Looking at the posts on the page, this one appears BEFORE the one where I asked you what you had done with my slippers! If you have a warty nose and float then we will have to burn you!

You are either a time travelling witch, or edits re-order posts, get the bonfire started!

IRE will tell you I am a fucking wizard !!
ok he will probably add sleeve to that...

 

[Don Diaz]

It was the voices in my head......

Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?

 

[Don Diaz]

I'm looking forward to our CL quarter final against Real Madrid, can someone send a reminder back through time to Harry - don't play the lanky cunt!

Don't....I was there and Lennon called off sick half an hour before kick off and Adebayor scored two and my mate got pick pocketed and.....oh bollocks it was one of those days, I don't want to revisit. The beer and the fat lunch beforehand was good though.

The lanky cunt did us proud in Milan the round before.....so did Lennon, which is why the worldly wise amongst us here in the nice place, don't go slagging off players week by week like they do in the place that shall not be named.

 

[Dorset]

Don't....I was there and Lennon called off sick half an hour before kick off and Adebayor scored two and my mate got pick pocketed and.....oh bollocks it was one of those days, I don't want to revisit. The beer and the fat lunch beforehand was good though.

The lanky cunt did us proud in Milan the round before.....so did Lennon, which is why the worldly wise amongst us here in the nice place, don't go slagging off players week by week like they do in the place that shall not be named.

Yep, I never had a problem with him or nearly all of our ex-players - what was it that Rudi (I think) called him? The tall circus man?

Robbo had a good game at the weekend, cripes, still playing in the PL eh? I am enjoying seeing Nacker Chabli do well and obviously legendary Yiddo JD. Who else do I look upon fondly even now they are playing in other teams? Andros, Azza, Daws, Ryan Mason (not with us long enough for a nickname, how about Massa?) , Pritcha, Capoo, Kaboom - and loads more, I wish them all well.

I wasn't that umpty with players like Bent in the olden days, who some folks seemed to hate, Bentley, well he scored 'that' goal so I can't hate him eh.

Paulinho and Dempsey? Yeah fuck those blokes. But even Dempsey I don't hate, much, just a smidgeon and I would probably piss on him if he was on fire, but the other one (and Gshatly Garli of course) can fuck right off. So, there's probs only 2 I am umpty with, but not remotely enough to give a fuck about them and keep kicking them in the goolies for years and years and years.

I would still whisper in Harrys ear to drop the lanky cunt if I could go back in time, that does not mean I dislike Twizzle!

 

[Motspur Hotspur]

Yep, I never had a problem with him or nearly all of our ex-players - what was it that Rudi (I think) called him? The tall circus man?

Robbo had a good game at the weekend, cripes, still playing in the PL eh? I am enjoying seeing Nacker Chabli do well and obviously legendary Yiddo JD. Who else do I look upon fondly even now they are playing in other teams? Andros, Azza, Daws, Ryan Mason (not with us long enough for a nickname, how about Massa?) , Pritcha, Capoo, Kaboom - and loads more, I wish them all well.

I wasn't that umpty with players like Bent in the olden days, who some folks seemed to hate, Bentley, well he scored 'that' goal so I can't hate him eh.

Paulinho and Dempsey? Yeah fuck those blokes. But even Dempsey I don't hate, much, just a smidgeon and I would probably piss on him if he was on fire, but the other one (and Gshatly Garli of course) can fuck right off. So, there's probs only 2 I am umpty with, but not remotely enough to give a fuck about them and keep kicking them in the goolies for years and years and years.

I would still whisper in Harrys ear to drop the lanky cunt if I could go back in time, that does not mean I dislike Twizzle!

How could you not be mad at Bent? Even after THAT miss? I was in the ground THAT day and f*ck me my wife could have scored it! But then he did score THAT goal after Bentley scored THAT goal and got us back in the game for my favourite comeback of all time against the red peril so yeh, maybe I can't 'hate' him THAT much, but then he is proper pants.

 

[Ted the Yid]

Yep, I never had a problem with him or nearly all of our ex-players - what was it that Rudi (I think) called him? The tall circus man?

Robbo had a good game at the weekend, cripes, still playing in the PL eh? I am enjoying seeing Nacker Chabli do well and obviously legendary Yiddo JD. Who else do I look upon fondly even now they are playing in other teams? Andros, Azza, Daws, Ryan Mason (not with us long enough for a nickname, how about Massa?) , Pritcha, Capoo, Kaboom - and loads more, I wish them all well.

I wasn't that umpty with players like Bent in the olden days, who some folks seemed to hate, Bentley, well he scored 'that' goal so I can't hate him eh.

Paulinho and Dempsey? Yeah fuck those blokes. But even Dempsey I don't hate, much, just a smidgeon and I would probably piss on him if he was on fire, but the other one (and Gshatly Garli of course) can fuck right off. So, there's probs only 2 I am umpty with, but not remotely enough to give a fuck about them and keep kicking them in the goolies for years and years and years.

I would still whisper in Harrys ear to drop the lanky cunt if I could go back in time, that does not mean I dislike Twizzle!

Just the two? surely one more?

 

[Don Diaz]

Just the two? surely one more?

He shall not be named in this parish unless referred to as Judas

 

[Dorset]

Just the two? surely one more?

Now look what you have done! I had wiped that cunt from my brain and now he's back, pouring his poison into the bits I had scrubbed clean, his nonstop bitching about how racist we were for calling him a cunt, how racist the FA were for not making him England captain and probably how racist the voters were were not making him mayor - NOT racist, cuntitst. I admit it I hate cunts like him, I am a cuntist. Now I will have to go back into therapy to try and make the voices stop, or maybe not, they are my friends and the things they tell me to do are not unreasonable, illegal maybe, but ........

 

[skiathospurs]

Right you asked for it,what a cunt eh !!

 

[Don Diaz]

Right you asked for it,what a cunt eh !!

Look what you've gone and done...you've tarnished this shiny new forum, payback will surely come in the form of a huge loss in the Prediction league this weekend. Forever hang your head in shame. Forget 'Black Friday'...it's 'Black Wednesday'......

 

[skiathospurs]

Look what you've gone and done...you've tarnished this shiny new forum, payback will surely come in the form of a huge loss in the Prediction league this weekend. Forever hang your head in shame. Forget 'Black Friday'...it's 'Black cunt Wednesday'......

Fixed that for you

 

[Ted the Yid]

Oooooooh fucking spooky! Looking at the posts on the page, this one appears BEFORE the one where I asked you what you had done with my slippers! If you have a warty nose and float then we will have to burn you!

You are either a time travelling witch, or edits re-order posts, get the bonfire started!

Edited to see if it goes back in time! NO It didn't so...... it's witch burning time!

You are never alone when you have voices in your head. Just follow the advice of the kids from Grange Hill and Nancy Reagan and just say no.

 

[skiathospurs]

You are never alone when you have voices in your head. Just follow the advice of the kids from Grange Hill and Nancy Reagan and just say no.

thats all bollox,honestly few years back I did an apple bong with one of the main stars of grange hill. But must be some truth in it cos he did have a whitey.

 

[Ted the Yid]

thats all bollox,honestly few years back I did an apple bong with one of the main stars of grange hill. But must be some truth in it cos he did have a whitey.

That's probably what inspired him to say no!

 

[skiathospurs]

That's probably what inspired him to say no!

lol was well after his grange hill days.I dont think he ever said no from what i remember.

 

[Don Diaz]

The Pikey boys fans are giving United's lot a fair bit of good old banter...it's quite funny actually. United's home support is pretty poor on a consistent basis....just waiting for a chorus of 'You're not special anymore....' a personal favourite.

 

[Yid]

No reason with the squad we have we cant have a go,even with the rotation required for CL and PL,we are much stronger than last sept,even if its just cos fazio wont play to fuck it all up!!
We can name an excellent XI that arent starters in the league and have a chance IMO.

There's one complication removed. Piece of piss now then...!!!

(Apart from the time travel, that's still an issue)

 

[skiathospurs]

There's one complication removed. Piece of piss now then...!!!

(Apart from the time travel, that's still an issue)

I am gonna travel back in time and stop all these injuries!!and commenting cos isnt it always a fucking jinx when we do!!
Really i meant to say "europa league"

 

[skiathospurs]

FA cup draw in 5mins !! on bbc or btsport
cant help but get excited by this cup,been part of my spurs life,even the 3rd rnd draw!!

 

[skiathospurs]

west ham v man city
lol