Anyhow good weekend for the top 3.
So what does that make Spurs? 
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“Spursy” needs to be added to the English dictionary as an official word.
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Tricky run of games next and will possibly be a defining one in terms of expectations.
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It has been suggested:
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Oh the infamy !
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Top of the table. W6 L1. Conceded by far the fewest goals.
But we only played teams lower than 9th in the table.
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Ange so fed up 
Coughing, sighing, looking at the floor, scratching the back of his ear.
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Have been our Achilles heel over the years mind.
Tougher games coming up after the break, that’s for sure. Would be nice with a good start, ie take at least four points from Chelsea and Arsenal. Six points there would be massive.
Really hope Slot rotates in CL and the league cup. I would prioritise the PL at the moment
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Feels like he learned a lot from what happened at home against Forest so I’m quietly confident of his rotations.
Now if only Darwin would stay onside.
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He (Darwin) is so eager…
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Like a German Shepherd pup that wants to bite and chew everything in sight!
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I watched that match last night, knowing the final score in advance. It is actually an interesting match to consider in light of our own struggles to close out the game against Palace (giving up a couple of dangerous chances, not getting a second). We weren’t perfect, but we were fundamentally sound.
Spurs didn’t really blow that game so much as regress to the mean. They didn’t have a comfortable 2-0 lead in a game they were controlling, they had 2 goals from attacking effectively from the wing while Brighton had not converted from 3 good shots taken around the penalty spot. Spurs were not defensively solid in any sense, and once Brighton started running through the midfield in the 2nd half (mainly Mitoma) it bit Spurs in the arse.
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I really do think there needs to be a specific thread for banter.
All those agreement say aye. Wait don’t.
Just go start a thread for every other thread to be filtered.
@Arminius yeah that’s a good observation. Also relevant I think is that neither Spurs goals came from them picking Brighton apart with good football but more from Brighton shooting themselves in the foot, first with sloppy passing in their half and then with terrible keeping.
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Dale has some blind spots in how he approaches these pieces, but thought this was a particularly good and clear one on why we should not expect an incident like VVD on Ghuei to be given as a pen or see intervention by the VAR while the Tarkowski one was despite it sharing key elements (a player no where near getting the ball)
His take on Merino is wild though. He jumps for the ball on the edge of the 6 yard box and the goalie clearly has to account for the potential of having to save a header from him. But it goes over Merino’s head onto the foot of the goal scorer with no time at all for the keeper to adjust to where he’d want to be to save that shot. There is no way Ramsdale could have been set to defend the Martinelli shot the way he would have been able to be had he not had to account for potentially trying to save a header from Merino.
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The refwatch lot on SSN were equally as weird on this one, especially when compared to one a couple of weeks ago.
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Fofana and Cucurella already suspended.
Hope they ban Jackson too.
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