Yeah, I kind of agree with you about the Owen-Martins combo to an extent. I think that Viduka-Owen or even Viduka-Martins is a better choice. But, with that being said, the team played cohesively today, and I'm not sure that anybody had a bad performance - at least compared to the performances we had last year.

Did you see Ashley after Kaboul nearly hit it out of the stadium. Giving it the 'weeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeee' with his arms out. Kemsley on his right looked gutted in his spurs shirt.

Mike Ashley is chavtastic!

Yup I saw that too.It was really funny! Hes a great guy to be around with Im sure.

Spurs were very poor. Their supporters really do live in cloud cuckoo land if they truly do believe that are set to challenge Arsenal.

Nelson Muntz moment for Martin Jol. The manager and the bloke off here who claims to be ITK.

I was pleased with the performance and result yesterday. In the first half we dominated without ever really getting going, Martins' goal came at the right time going into half time. We started well in the second half and deserved the 2-0 lead, they got back into it for a spell after Keane's goal, but as soon as Milner scored the game was over. I was impressed with the back line, it's only the second time they've played together and I think Faye and Cacapa look good together in central defence.

Hopefully we can now start winning on the road starting at Reading.

thought all the back 4 were solid last night with particular praise for Cacapa and Faye.
Enrique lookslike with a few games he will be a very good player.
Butt was superb tonight, playing full of confidence.
Seems to be a good team spirit amongst the players - everyone goes to celebrate and congratulate each other rather than just a couple of them. Everyone seems to get stuck in these days n all.

Better to come i can only hope, especially if we can start picking up more points away from home.

If we win our next game we will be on an avergae 2 points a game, which over a season you would imagine would be enough to get you champions league football. Admittedly we've not come up against any big teams yet, but its not a bad return.

Without looking to see if any of the others have played eachother I'd imagine that the group of us, Blackburn, Citeh, and Pompey will win our home games against eachother and therefore by default lose the away games.

Could be the winner of this mini league gets the European spot

I didnt mean to put a negative spin on that actually, sorry. I agree we've probably played the hardest game of the 6 in that group.

I also think we will get better, there was a lot of change at the club and only City have had similar circumstances. Nasty injury to Elano would certainly dent their run of form too.

Out of respect for Dr Speccy i couldnt possibly comment.

Given - 7 Good did virtually everything right ut didn't have much to do.
Beye - 7 Got forward very well. Found it tough defensively at times. Its great having good propper Fulbacks!
Cacapa - 8.5 MOM Great goal and Mr Cool defensively a great find , the lynchpin of our defence now.
Faye - 8.5  Outstanding. Won almost everything in the air, a real tower of strength.
Enrique - 7 Defensively sound, excellent passing and took Malbranque out the game.
Butt 8.5 - Did what Butt does at his best, gets stuck in, breaks down attacks, passes well and gets forward when needed.
Emre 7 - Very good passing and good link up play. Could have done more though (possibly will do if given a run).
Zoggy - 7 gave 100% battled hard trying to create, but didn't really get anywhere.
Martins - 7.5 Got the all important first goal that again, probably only he would have got. A big threat to them throughout. Had alot of blocked shots, i thnk he's fantastic love watching him play, very exciting, deadly on the break.
Owen - 7 good link up play but disapointing efforts on goal, could have had a couple on another day.

Roze - 7 Good
Milner - 7.5 Cracking goal to finish them off, held the ball up well too.
Barton 7 good.

Overall Started off fairly even, with both sides creating the odd oppourtunity, Martins brilliant goal out of nothing really was very very important and really shook them. We played a long (50 yards?) ball which the defender tried to control but kicked Martins who had run (like lightning) between player and ball then quick as a flash controlled the ball and smashed it goalwards onto the onrushing keeper and it deflected into the roof of net. Most strikers would not have even attempted to bother doing this nevermind have got there fast enough. The cracks then started to show in their defence and midfield and we exploited them superbly well and they were shockingly bad at times with defensive errors and misplaced passes gallore under our pressure. Sam got the tactics right. I hope we've learned from Derby and attack more against Reading.