It was fun to watch good football on a Monday night.
Especially after suffering Arsenal’s apathy in that 1-1 draw with lowly Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon.
After 9 minutes it was Dembele to Kane outside the box and bang!
Right foot shot bending inside the far post, Harry’s trademark goal.
It’s Stoke 0 Spurs 1.
Looked as if it must be 0-2 when Dele Alli backheeled the ball into Eriksen’s run and the Dane had the whole goal to aim at and nobody near him.
He had time to place his shot either side of keeper Shay Given. But his shot smacked against the crossbar and bounced back over Eriksen’s head and it was still 0-1 at half-time and it that was still the score after 60 minutes.
For three days I’d been saying that Spurs would batter Stoke, I had no doubt about that.
All day I’d been telling friends that Spurs could win 4-0.
After 67, Eriksen lifted a chip into the long run of Dele Alli, who controlled the ball with the outside of his right leg and poked it nicely past Given.
This was samurai football that slices straight through you.
STOKE WERE NOT GONNA COME BACK FROM THAT.
Then Lamela spurted clear and put one on a plate for Kane, who made it 0-3 in 71.
Then Eriksen zipped through on the left flank in 82 and his chip allowed Dele Alli to volley expertly down and into the bottom corner of the net for 4-0.
Stoke 0, Kane 2, Alli 2
Sky studio guest Cesc Fabregas on Alli : “Very complete player, he’s all over the place.”
On that difficult volley, “It’s not easy, these kind of balls.”
Our Queen is 90 now but was just a girl in 1961, the last time Spurs won the league.
Leicester need 8 points to secure the first league title in their 131-year history.
Fabregas said, “For what they’ve done this season, I’d love Leicester to win it. I don’t want Spurs to win it.”
Spurs play Monday Night Football next week and the Monday after that.
Interviewed the before the match, Mauricio Pochettino was asked if he watched the Leicester-West Ham game on TV. He said he watched it in his house with his chairman Daniel Levy and a glass of wine.
The chairmen of some big clubs will have been dismayed to hear that.
Spurs can win trophies now, that much is obvious, and Pochettino, the hottest young coach in football, is going nowhere.
Hes a calm, likeable guy who just says,”All can happen in football.”
With the Piccadilly Line on strike, there will be even more empty seats at the Emirates for the West Brom game on Thursday night.
If I was a season ticket holder, I wouldn’t bother, as it’s on Sky.