Always sucks having to work on Boxing Day and miss all of the football, but seeing as how the Spurs/Fulham match wasn't going to be on TV in my household, there was no great loss in forgoing following the match live online, particularly since the visitors had been in bad form as of late.
The good news: Ledley King was back on the defensive line and Robbie Keane and Tom Huddlestone both netted a brace of goals to lead the attack past the indeed-woeful visitors. Keane's goals were more the benefit of placement, the first of a rebound off of a missed kick and the second a deflection from a shot on goal from Dimitar Berbatov, but Huddletstone's goals were nice shots that, maybe, a better keeper might've kept out. Jermaine Defoe ended the home side scoring with a goal late in the contest to send the home crowd very happy indeed.
The only good news for Fulham came with the goal scored, on a rebound, by Clint Dempsey, the rest of the afternoon, at least from the highlights I saw, was that of being hopelessly outmatched. That was Dempsey's second goal against Spurs, his sixth for the season, and the third time his goal was the only scoring. In those games, Fulham lost twice and forced one draw. With the loss on Wednesday, Fulham is now in the relegation zone at the halfway point of the season.
However, there was more good news from the south coast with the Arse drawing nil all with Portsmouth, losing first place in the EPL to Manchester United, who thrashed Roy Keane's Sunderland 0-4. This is definitely not a bad thing at all. The match I watched a lot of was quite entertaining indeed, with Aston Villa visiting Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Anybody who thought this one would end up a 4-4 draw would've made a lot of money, particularly with the home side who hadn't scored that many goals in a couple of months.
Villa took a 2-0 lead via an error from Chelsea goalie Petr Cech in addition to a good shot, but the Blues came storming back to a 3-2 lead after playing some aggressive football, the quick strike by Alex in the 66th minute to take the lead was a lovely bit of skill indeed on a quick pass from a teammate before the defense was cognizant of what was happening.
Some questionable defending, particularly by Chelsea's Ricardo Carvalho, with an thuggish two-footed tackle on a Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor allowed the game to deteriorate into controversy as well as the 4-4 draw, which probably left neither side particularly happy with the outcome.
SPURS SITE REPORT
POMPEY/ARSE
CHELSEA/VILLA
Anyway, the next match, at White Hart Lane, is this Saturday against Reading, who have yet to win away from the Madjeski this year, compiling an 0-3-6 record so far. This is not a time for the Royals, a scrappy team that I kind of pull for, to change that record. COYS!.
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