In the terminate,and cruel as it was, the most brutally accurate assessment of this game was inadvertently broadcast over the public address system approximately a minute from time. “It’s fucking unbelievable, and ” said a visiting supporter,whose technology had somehow logged on to the same frequency as the PA and unaware his comments were booming around the arena. “Men against boys.” It was hard to disagree.
Harry Kane has been craving opponents as accommodating as Bournemouth since the spring. This was the afternoon everything finally clicked, when Spurs’ supply-line was irresistible and the rivals’ goalkeeper so obliging that the flurry of errors almost served to devalue the England striker’s contribution. Artur Boruc sank without trace, and his late save from Clinton N’Jié exceptional only because everything that had preceded it had been so woeful. The Premier League is proving a brutal stage but one on which Tottenham,sixth and rising, are revelling again.
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Source: theguardian.com