Spurs 4 - Aston Villa 4

Sick as a dog !!!!

Now im calming down a bit, and looking at the stats, we were lucky to be 4-1 up. But these players are professionals and should be able to hold on to a 3 goal lead! And why didnt MON bring on Davies at the death just to have another defensive player? 7 shots and 7 shots on target makes a change though!!

I understand how disappointed and frustrated you all must be but in all honesty you didn't deserve to be 4-1 up in the first place, mistakes and poor defending allowed you that. Minus the defending that is the best I have seen Spurs play this season. Possession, chances we had it all. Having said that Villa were not awful and contributed to a very memorable game.

I agree that it was not good to sit back, imavillan, but it seems to me that MON was urging them forward, not telling them to sit back.

Gabby's goal was quality Pking. Absolute.

Very very disappointed. Was up at 3am to 5am watching this live in Singapore. Try getting back to sleep after that one...cue nightmares of Marlon. That guy is truly useless. If anyone says get off his back and give him a chance after that effort last night for the 3rd goal then i'll be truly amazed. That was 100% the turning point of the game, and there was absolutely no excuse for it. The guy obviously has more muscles than brain cells. MON's performance - slightly questionable substitutions?....perhaps, but putting Davies on might have further invited them to come onto us. Petrov didn't do too much wrong, but he's not really the guy you want to bring on if defending a lead. Yet again, those players should still have been able to hold on to a 3 goal lead & they have to be the ones to answer to the consequences. Spurs were hopeless in defence last night OAL, and that is a big part of the game, so I don't know how you can claim we didn't deserve to be 4-1 up. You guys were there for the taking, and only a similar implosion for us near the end salvaged a result for you guys. This p155es me off more than anything, as it is tantamount to a 6 point swing in terms of how things might shake up for the Europe spots come end of the season.

I feel physically sick this morning after that! When will MON learn that if you play your ***** players you dont win football matches! It happend vs Leicester, then at 4-1 up he brings on the ***** Harewood and the ***** Petrov, and it was bound to happen again and it did!

I would say we'd have taken a draw at the start and Spurs did play well in a memorable game. It would have been an ideal match to blood Davies. The December/Christmas period is key this season, lets hope this time we can string a run of results together. The experience we are getting can only help too.

Looking at these reactions, I'm also puzzled that when we were 4-1 up, we started getting jittery! I was at the Leicester game in 1995 (?) where something similar happened and I said to my son something very similar to Eltoro. If we concede a goal in the next five minutes, we'll end up drawing 4-4. Then we did, and we did. Call it the experience of being a supporter for the last 40 years, but look on the bright side - he doesn't think I'm stupid any more!!

the best form of defence is attack, we sat back for 30 minutes and invited pressure with some stupid tactics from oneill. why take gardener off? at least he tackles and gets stuck in un like petrov, and reo-coker. Why sit back? why leave one up front? why marlon harewood? why not go for a 5th when they are so shocking at the back? This result will paper of the cracks a bit for the spuds, but they did show some charactor i will give them that. Paul Robinson for England and the Champions League???? Give it a rest.

Well after being completely *****ed off last night i have clamed down a bit. my short anaylasis of the game is........ Harewood is a useless tosser not fit to wear the shirt again. surely no one can defend him today, and i'm not going to waste my time slagging petrov off........... *****. but other than them two, well played Villa, and MON get spending in jan, we could make europe with a couple more players.

ok, I didn't have a wink of sleep last night after that match. Saying that, did anyone else think that most of our main team played terribly last night? Reo-Coker was off form and got booked for that pointless challenge, Barry was anonymous, Young never really got a look in, Carson looked a bit unsure after goal 2, Mellberg was useless and left a massive space for Bale to play in, Bouma wasn't his best... I hate to say it but we probably never deserved that lead and really a draw is not a bad result and a point is better than the corresponding fixture last year. I know losing that lead is heartbreaking but for some reason we still look off our game when away from home (or at home to lower division opposition...) Is the coach really uncomfortable of something?

Did say Harewood was a bag of rubbish now maybe a few of you will agree with me? Also coker cant defend. Maybe you found out a little more about your so called great signings. C u Sat.

Shoe Hammer, you seem to have a vendetta against clearly our best player (sorry, I'm told I'm negative, so wanted to change that!!!! :o( )

I just don't understand MON's tactics with regard to substitutions. This is the second game when the wrong substitutes have blown the game for us. Petrov and Harewood are not up to standard and MON playing them, because he bought them, is not good enough. Osbourne and Davies would have been a much better option both want to play for Villa which is more than can be said about the other two. BUT, why change a winning team? It does not make sense, plus MON's excuse about a young team was tripe, as another blog points out.

can't see why Reo is being dug at, he wasn't bad at all last night.. great goal by Gabby.... Harewood has no ability whatsoever, gave the ball away all but one time he got it & ... well don't need to mention the penalty!

Hoss, you are right, although I feel more positivity coming on. How about: Its good to share. It was greedy of us to take all the points and goals and our reward for such generosity will be in heaven? As for losing 3 goals in 20 mins, I honestly don't think I could do it, I'll leave that to the experts at Villa! lol

Not to mention the fact that he tried to hump a Tottenham player in the penalty box....what a moronic effort....

At 4-1 you had to shake your head and ask just how we were ahead, let alone be 4-1 up. Five more minutes and we'd have lost, no doubt about it.

Word about their pre-game celebrations - very impressive. They put on quite a show.