Ramos and Roman need to hug it out

RAMOS: Roman! Push ball to left and run in a circle.


PAVLYUCHENKO: (stares blankly)

RAMOS: Make two-one with Bent!

PAVLYUCHEKNO: (dribbles into crowd of defenders and loses the ball)

RAMOS: Drop your...your... your back! Bananas, seven, to go!

/halftime whistle blows

PAVLYUCHENKO: Coach, no understand.

RAMOS: Then out. You...you... you must learn to then spe...speak like me.



PAVLYUCHENKO: (shakes head, sits down, wonders why he didn't sign with Arsenal)

h/t: EPL Talk

Notes from Villa-Spurs

-For all the money Spurs have spent in midfield and attack, their back four is still shaky. Poor clearances and miscommunication...basic stuff.

- Villa attacked much more than in recent games. The attack looked more organized, too. When I saw Nigel Reo-Coker starting again on the right side I almost choked, thinking, "Where's Milner?" But it worked. I guess Martin O'Neill knows what he's doing, after all.

- Spurs lack a true holding midfielder to direct traffic.

- Agbonlahor played more on the wings, which I think utilized his speed more. I always saw him more of an attacking winger than a true center forward.

- Gareth Barry got Man of the Match but I didn't see it. Some good passing Petrov and Young were much more effective.

Foot goes to the ball, not mouth

Quite the kerfuffle (I love that word!) in the land of underachievers as Harry Hotspur posted some advice from a Tottenham employee to new signing Roman Pavlyuchenko.

“A lot of dark-skinned people live there,” Rebrov said. “So naturally the crime rate is higher than anywhere else. It’s not nice to be a robbery victim. So I suggest that Roman doesn’t walk but drives around that area.”

Holy crap, that's some of the most patently racist stuff I've heard in a long time. I thought England was supposed to be better about that than America.

So yeah, the employee (Rebrov) is a pathetic waste of space. Had Harry Hotspur said something to that effect, we could have all made our derisive jokes about Rebrov and continued with our day. Unfortunately, Harry Hotspur perpetuated this garbage:

The immeadiate and arguably politically correct response to seeing his words is to bark RACIST!!! and demand... well. demand something or other.

Arguably? Arguably?! Screw political correctness, that's blatant. Harry then goes on to break down the rest of the statement journo-style for reasons I don't want to understand. He was obviously reprimanded and thankfully has issued an apology.

Now what to do about Rebrov?