"The scoreline flattered Spurs, who were disappointing in the first half and lacked creativity in central areas, with Rafael van der Vaart (hamstring) and Luka Modric (ill) both out."
Now there's a surprise. Like I keep saying, Parker is a useful cog with quality around him, but ask him to be the playmaker in midfield and his limitations are quickly exposed. Three goals scored, none by Parker and no assists for the former Hammer either. So the record still reads no goals and just one assist.
Parker gets six mentions on the BBC's text report. I quote:
11:35 Foul by Steven Reid on Emmanuel Adebayor, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Scott Parker.
15:02 Youssouf Mulumbu challenges Raniere Sandro unfairly and gives away a free kick. Scott Parker restarts play with the free kick.
55:23 Scott Parker takes a shot. Blocked by Gareth McAuley.
63:30 Effort on goal by Scott Parker from outside the area goes harmlessly over the bar.
89:32 Scott Parker gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Jonas Olsson. Ben Foster takes the free kick.
90:00+0:25 The ball is sent over by Somen Tchoyi, Scott Parker manages to make a clearance.
It seems that without Modric and Van der Vaart, Parker isn't half the player in a Tottenham shirt. Now there's a shocker!
I THINK YOU SHOULD WATCH SECOND HALF AND LOOK AT STATS! DO NOT POST UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN FULL PICTURE, OR YOU WILL LOOK STUPID!
ReplyDeleteyou are a silly man
ReplyDeleteYeah, you clearly didn't see the game....
ReplyDeleteand the idiot from the BBC is blind.
Parker was F@cking awesome in the second half. A couple of brilliant runs and two more defense splitting passes that should have resulted in goals.
I didn't want him in the off-season but he has been nothing short of brilliant.
Watching him and Demba Ba this year must make any Hammer fan sick.
jealousy will get u nowhere - our 2 most creative players out and we still win 3-1 away from home - COYS
ReplyDeleteBitter, not much? lol lets all laugh at the Spammers
ReplyDeleteActually, Parker did put Adebayor through on goal on one occasion, with a nice pass, but Ade fluffed his lines. Although Spurs rode their luck at times, in truth it actually could have been a win by a greater margin if you see the chances Spurs missed. As for Parker, I agree he isn't a creative midfielder but you can't expect players to be able to do absolutely everything, I would imagine that Messi would make a pretty poor holding midfielder. All in all I would expect hammers fans can now appreciate what a good move this was for Parker, he can now gain the plaudits for a doing a good job in a role as part of a team, rather than trying to carry a team.
ReplyDeleteNot bitter at all. Glad you have him as we couldn't afford £83k a week for a holding midfielder who neither scores nor creates - as his career record and Tottenham record this far shows. How many games? One assist, no goals, in a team that has been rampant!
ReplyDeleteSpot on 2204
ReplyDeleteFAILBLOG.
ReplyDeleteNow there is sour grapes if I ever heard it.
ReplyDeleteHe is not a playmaker, he does exactly what it say on the box.
I think Scott Parker has been the single most important factor in Spurs' success this year. I know West Ham fans adored him and we do too. Something in common, surprise surprise !!
ReplyDeleteHa ha, if his limitations weren't exposed in that West Ham team he obviously doesn't have any. Friedel hasn't scored either, does that make him crap too? Muppet.
ReplyDelete2208 He Parkers the bus?
ReplyDeleteHis limitations were exposed in a West Ham shirt, that's the point!
ReplyDeleteDouble player of the year in a relegated team that played some shocking football? The man is clearly an imposter posing as a footballer. I really don't get your point. He's been man of the match in almost every game he has played.
ReplyDelete"True Spurs won but, by all accounts they were lucky. I didn't see the game"
ReplyDeleteAnd the argument ends there...What a Toby
Double Player of the Year? So what award did Bale get then? Call yourself a Tottenham fan? You don't even know the history of your own club!
ReplyDeleteIf the argument ends there, why did you contribute? What a China!
ReplyDeleteparker was man of the match your bell end
ReplyDeleteYou got me, well done. I haven't a clue really, I'm off to brush up on my knowledge with some MOTD. What time is the hammers game on ? Oh yeah, stupid me.
ReplyDeleteParker's always man of the match! He gets it for being on the team sheet!
ReplyDelete2221 Enjoy MOTD.
ReplyDeleteAt least be proud that he used to be your best player and you could even claim that you helped to make him the player his is today.
ReplyDeleteInstead you take the bitter route and make yourself and West Ham fans look jealous.
Parker isn't a creative type, hence why we played 442 today instead of our normal 4411. But what he does do is invaluable.
We were missing vdV and Modric. Yet we still created over 20 chances and scored 3 goals.
Get your facts right mate. I was there and the score flattered West Brom. Still you are a West Ham fan so why should I expect you to get your facts right. I am surprised that you can read and write!
ReplyDelete"If the argument ends there, why did you contribute? What a China!"
ReplyDeleteDidn't contribute to the argument, there is none. You have no base on which to build an argument on. I was merely commenting on how much of an idiot(and by all accounts, a bitter idiot) you are.
I thought West Ham fans were supposed to be knowledgeable?
ReplyDeleteYou have as much knowledge and class as those who own you.
Academy my hole.
No attack on Spurs here and I am not claiming that Parker is a creative player, I'm claiming the opposite. My point has always been that we were using him incorrectly. He holds, he doesn't create.
ReplyDeletelove the so easy to wind sp*ds very amusing
ReplyDelete£80+ k a week. So he took a pay cut to join Spurs. What a legend. If he only plays well with good players around him how do he get player of the year last year?
ReplyDeleteYou tell me! Four goals, two assists all season playing in midfield!
ReplyDeleteSurely even a bitter idiot such as yourself can realize there is more to the game than goals and assists.
ReplyDeleteHow many games will you win without goals and assists. Useful cog if quality around him.
ReplyDeletejust to add to this farce, the independent's MOTM was Parker:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/adebayor-and-defoe-too-hot-to-handle-for-albion-6268583.html
Like I said, he gets Man of the Match for being on the team sheet. He was Man of the Match for West Ham at West Brom last season, even though Noble assisted with all three goals and Parker gave away the free kick for West Brom's third goal. I think he changed his initials to MOTM by deed poll! Man of the Match against Spain too, even though Lescott was much better and Parker so so nearly cost England the game losing possession with one of his sill half turns. Jagielka saved his skin!
ReplyDeleteI think you have some sort of mental health issue.
ReplyDeleteIt's called Parkermysons's Disease. I keep turning in circles and shake all over if I get within shooting distance of a goal!
ReplyDeleteYou bloody fool?
ReplyDeleteA player is judged by assists and goals?
How about winning the balls, tackles, defending, distribution, passes, possession.....
American journalist William Saletan had high praise for Parker's defensive skills after seeing the QPR match in person at White Hart Lane. "Parker doesn't score or get credited with assists. He leaves that to the guys up front," he wrote.
ReplyDelete"What Parker does instead is win games. He does this not by punctuating the match but by controlling it. He smothers oncoming attacks. He forces opponents off the ball. He orchestrates distribution out of the back, setting in motion a Spurs onslaught that will culminate 60 yards downfield ... You can't watch the game up close without noticing Parker."
Even an American journalist writing about "soccer" is more on the ball than you. Congratulations!
U didn't see the match - Nuff said!! Spurs could have easily got 5 or 6 more& don't believe the bollox on the beeb that WBA should have had a penalty or that Friedel carried the ball over the line - they shouldn't have and friedel didn't + was fouled - the ref got the decisions right. Parker btw had a sparkler!!
ReplyDeleteDrip. 3rd in the Prem. Your in the Championship.
ReplyDeleteIf you didn't see the game, then it would be better if you didn't pass comment on it! If you looked at the stats of chances created/shots on goal, plus if you had observed our second half domination you would have concluded that the win was thoroughly deserved. Far from having his limitations "exposed" Parker was brilliant again for us. He was also instrumental in creating several of our best chances. Does he have some limitations? Yes, on the evidence so far, he is definitely not a clinical finisher. However for the role that he plays, as a ball winner and distributor, he is outstanding. Plus he also has excellent leadership qualities, a great attitude and is a role model on and off the pitch. What is there not to like about the guy? Nothing! Your loss is our gain. He's been superb for us all season.
ReplyDeleteHell has no one as stupid as a wet spam fan spurned
ReplyDeleteThe fly in the ointment of your silly article is the fact that Parker was playing with one of the biggest group of useless players the prem had ever seen last season and almost (thank god he didn't) kept the spam heads up
ReplyDeleteWhat a reaction! Do I say ANYWHERE that Parker is a bad player or even that he had a bad game? I say whaty so many of the angry Spurs fans say, that Parker is not an offensive player.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble is, West Ham used him as a midfield general and schemer, not as a holding midfielder, and that is one of the reasons why we were relegated. He doesn't offer enough going forward. Yesterday, paired with Sandro, he was asked to offer more creatively and, first half, he wasn't at the races in a creative sense.
The Express report on the match doesn't mention Parker, nor does the Telegraph. This is from The Guardian:
"Having drafted in Scott Parker and Emmanuel Adebayor since then, Spurs are on a remarkable run. Their ability to fulfil their lofty ambitions for the season, however, will depend to a large extent on how they cope when deprived of a key players. This game was instructive, as illness to Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart's hamstring trouble meant Spurs would be without their two most imaginative players for the first time in the campaign.
While a relative lack of creativity might have been expected given the absentees, the sight of Spurs being outbattled in midfield early on was surprising. Modric's replacement, Sandro, did have the first menacing shot, bringing an awkward save from Ben Foster in the fourth minute, but most of the play was heading in the other direction. In the 10th minute the hosts took a deserved lead."
The Guardian adds, "Fortunate to be level at the break, Spurs were more urgent in the second period, Parker proving the point in the 54th minute with a powerful run through the middle before teeing up Adebayor 14 yards out. Foster thwarted the forward with an excellent save."
"We were poor in the first half and I told them it was not acceptable," said Redknapp. "In the second half we upped the pace and closed them down more and we looked a different team."
Hodgson was left to sum the match up thus: "The shape of our team was good, the passing was good and the movement was good. The result was crap."
Doesn't sound like Scotty had his usual "blinder" to me. In fact it sounds like Adebayoor and Defoe were your heroes.
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo a west ham blogger posting articles about spurs players and a spurs game away to west brom.
ReplyDeleteNever thought i would see the day.
i doubt many spurs websites would be commenting on west hams games.
did west ham play yesterday???????!!!!!
By the way, somebody said Parker was MOTM in the Independent but this is from their match report:
ReplyDelete"Adebayor was a constant menace while midfielder Scott Parker was more of an influence in the final 45 minutes."
So he performed for half the game then! The same report says, " Tottenham made a bright start to the second period and Parker teed up an early chance for Adebayor." There's no other mention of Scotty!
A West Ham and FOOTBALL fan commenting on an ex West Ham player actually. Mind you, I want Spurs to win the Premiership so I'm not sure why we have such school yard spitefulness. All I'm saying is that Modric, VdV, Bale and Lennon offer the creative dimension and that if Parker is forced into that role, as he was at West Ham, then he is ordinary at it. Very good at holding, very ordinary as a midfield general.
ReplyDelete'Tottenham's Defoe's limitations exposed'
ReplyDeleteDefoe's limitations are cruelly exposed when you play him in goal. If you play him in that position he will almost certainly not score.
Ridiculous that you wasted your time writing this, just to appear edgy and different. I watched the full game and Parker was tremendous. He linked the play nicely yesterday, and it was only for the fact that the Spurs couldn't finish yesterday that stopped him having 2 or 3 assists
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the title used for this column was a cheap attempt to gain more readers. Definitely worked though to be fair. Parker has come into the Spurs team and done exactly what is expected of him. Maybe the whole world is mad and only the writer of this article knows his football? I think not.
ReplyDeletesour grapes springs to mind. Do people post this tosh just to get a torrent of comments correcting there narrow minded simple out look upon football? do they feed of negativity? i'm a football fan through and through and while i don't like decent players leaving my beloved Spurs, when they do i always think 'thats football' and get on with it. posting this tripe about a former player, having a pop at his talents is lame on a massive scale. Appreciate what decent players bring to the game and English football.... and maybe grow up.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that on various posts, people have mentioned that it is possible you may have some sort of mental illness. I also think this is true. Scott, you are in need of medical help and support from your family. In the last month I'm sure you can count at least 20 times people have referred to your illness. Maybe you should pay attention.
ReplyDeleteLOL, Spammers Fans.
ReplyDeleteMate u are a fool. I watched the whole game in Singapore and Parker was awesome. Made 4 or 5 great runs and some amazing balls through that on another day we would have scored. Watch a game then write a story. Don't rely on bbc commentary!
ReplyDeleteHahaha, the author of this "article" needs to know about football 1st surely..... Written by a numpty, prolly still a virgin, living at home with his parents.
ReplyDeleteThis is too silly.
ReplyDeleteUnsubscribing from this!
Dear oh dear. What a bitter little man you are.
ReplyDeleteHaving been easily proven wrong about Parker's contribution yesterday in a game that you didn't see, you now claim disingenuously that the article is a treatise on how Parker was played out of position at West Ham. Yet your article doesn't mention West Ham, Avram Grant or the coaching staff.
ReplyDeleteIf not Scott Parker then who was supposed to be your creative flair on last year's championship calibre team?
Yes, Parker doers have limitations. He doesn't shoot or score enough. if he did, he'd be bloody superman and playing for City, Chelsea or in Madrid or Milan. Yet, he's 9-1-0 in the Premier, been the MOTM on, conservatively, 3 occasions and looking forward to Champions League soccer.
Meanwhile, who is West Ham's creative midfielder in this Championship campaign? Kevin Nolan (55K a week) ? Thanks. I'll take Parker.
not just amusing anymore really do have a mighty big chip on their shoulders the Sp*ds don't they?
ReplyDelete1402, had you followed this blog for the past 24 months you would understand fully the context. I called for Parker to be sold two years back because he could not offer what we needed in terms of creativity and goals from midfield. I genuinely believe that Nolan, for all his limitations, would have kept us up last season by scoring the goals from midfield that we desperately lacked by creating the openings for others - which Parker couldn't do. You don't need Parker to do that job, because you have VDV, Bale and Modric. But lose VDV and Modric, as yesterday, and Parker's limitations as a creative player will be exposed. That's all I'm saying!
ReplyDeleteANOTHER totally idiotic comment by a totally idiotic writer. You posted this bullshit time after time when you used to be allowed to spout rubbish on the Org. Dear oh dear. Its not just blinkered. Its rambling at best and total strupidity at worst. Dear what a demise. Always knew it was coming though. The judgemental attitute on Gary Speed just finishes it off for me. Tried to give you numerous benefits of the doubt but no more.
ReplyDeleteOH yes, I should have just posted RIP Gary Speed. That's the done thing apparently. Then move on. RIP Scotty's Dad. RIP Gary Speed. RIP to all the others in the world who died today. RIP. RIP. RIP. RIP.
ReplyDeleteWith Modric put yesterday Parker took a bit of a different role, made some good runs forward and set up a couple of chances. You need to watch games before blogging because once again he was one of the best players on the pitch
ReplyDeleteWest ham don't have the fans so to gain more hits he needs to get tottenham fans on his blog
ReplyDeleteLOL West Ham fans aren't stupid enough to go for the bait perhaps?
ReplyDeleteyou shouldn't be allowed to start a blog by saying "I didn't see the game..." - go watch the game and then comment!! Waste of space!!
ReplyDeleteWhat gives you the right to say how a blog should open?
ReplyDeleteSame thing that gives you the right to say Parker has limitations when you didn't see the game I'm guessing. I do a spurs blog and I'd never judge something I didn't see myself
ReplyDeleteHaha bitter little Hammer. He's a top player, and didn't want to play for a shit, small club in the Championship. Get over it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the blog 2017?
ReplyDeleteA pointless article, clearly written without any knowledge or understanding of the game. Congratulations for exposing yourself as a numpty.
ReplyDeleteScott Parker has been awesome so far this season, although he isn't as good being the creative of the two in the middle when compared to modders, vdv and niko, he did his job creating a few chances and we won comfortably in the end. He is a the ultimate professional, great side parting too!!
ReplyDeleteAt West Ham, I think he was the best person for that role even though it wasn't his natural position?
Oh dear now their bleating is just boring not sure how boring ran out the will to read anymore sp*d drivel
ReplyDeleteSchott Parker Hammer of the Year, 3 Years running definaltely not sour grapes LOL
ReplyDeleteHow the F**k can you comment on something that by your own admission you haven't seen..... You Sir are a fool.
ReplyDeleteWorst. Blog. Ever
ReplyDeleteWhat. A. Wit.
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