out for the season

stick to your own board you ass!

He's on strike until we buy a striker

Definitely the best CB in the PL, it would be such a shame if he missed the start of the season.

Worse than expected, both legs needed removing. The club are now seeking permission for him to be the first player to wear blades.

Thomspur

I'm a spurs fan and was making light of the fact that when one of our players gets injured it tends to see them missing for months

Verts is being used as a makeweight in the Bale - Madrid transfer.

Levy has agreed a deal where we swap our first 11 for theirs.

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Why AVB and Di Canio agreed to play that game on that pitch is beyond me

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charming innit

I don't think they had much say in whether the match went on judging by these comments from Scudamore...

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has told Sky Sports that player safety was not compromised in Wednesday's pre-season friendlies in Hong Kong.

Torrential rainfall meant Tottenham's match with Sunderland was played out on a very wet surface after a half-hour delay and defender Jan Vertonghen may now miss the start of the Premier League season after injuring his ankle.

Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas was angry about the state of the pitch but Scudamore says it was right that the Barclays Asia Trophy match, which was followed by a Man City v South China contest, went ahead.

"The heavens opened, it was just what we didn't want," said Scudamore. "But we'd thought it all through and had various contingency plans in place.


"With modern technology, we had a pretty accurate picture of what the weather was going to do in terms of the storms coming through, so we put the games back half an hour.

Right call

"The referees made the call, I think it was the right call. Our senior referees, Neil Swarbrick and Anthony Taylor, made the call that it was safe to play, but I think the half-hour gave us a chance because it meant we got both games in.

"Yes, I think it was safe to play. You play games in the Premier League and in the Championship in those conditions. There will be games played next season in those conditions, albeit temporarily.

"But if, at any point we thought it wasn't safe, we wouldn't have played it.

Vertonghen

Fair enough.

In the paper it said AVB & Di Canio were consulted before allowing it to go ahead.

Spurs fan posted on Facebook that he'd be out for 3 weeks max - Decent source on Twitter apparently.

Spurs fan posted on Facebook that he'd be out for 3 weeks max - Decent source on Twitter apparently.

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What happened? did he break both his hands?

"The heavens opened, it was just what we didn't want," said Scudamore. "But we'd thought it all through and had various sponsorhip deals in place.


"With modern technology, we had a pretty accurate picture of what the weather was going to do in terms of the storms coming through, but we just thought of the cash and put the games back half an hour.

Right call

"The sponsors made the call, I think it was the right call. Our senior sponsors, Skynet and Omni Consumer Products, made the call that it was safe to play, but I think the half-hour gave us a chance because it meant we got lots of cash in.

"Yes, I think it was safe to trouser the...I mean play. You play games in the Premier League and in the Championship in those conditions. There will be games played next season in those conditions, albeit temporarily.

"But if, at any point we thought it wasn't lucrative, we wouldn't have played it."

They may well have beenconsulted, along the lines of 'do you want to disappoint all the fans that have turned up?...and the refs have said its ok, so you're carrying the blame if its postponed'

Would you wanna dissapoint all those footy fans with knock off shirts!!??
I know I couldn't

Skynet!!

Vertonghen

And on a flip point, can you imagine the stick the teams (& sport) would have got if it was called off because of rain.

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Definitely the best CB in the PL

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fack off mate

Yep, the match was going ahead no matter what, there was too much riding on it both financially and protecting the brand(s)

"Skynet!!"

You do realise that Skynet is real, and existed before the Terminator movies (was always uneasy when when gigs were offered to work on Skynet5 - fortunately the low pay prevented that) .

Chronic

Best cb in the prem last season (not overall)