Beef Bagel

It was an ever so slightly edgy atmosphere down the Lane last night until Kaboul headed the first. With every day a twist in Tottenham drama, you’re never quiet sure what to expect any Tottenham fan would be lieing if there wasn’t a very small part of their brain saying ‘They could give us a nasty surprise you know.’ Thankfully of course, the shoe was most firmly on the other foot with a little six appeal from the Messers Kaboul, Dawson, Keane, Bent, Defoe and a little help from the ball boy…

…love the way you can hear and see as we point at little guy shouting ‘Yiddo! Yiddo! Yiddo!’. Needless to say there were a few following rounds of ‘Ball Boy is a Yiddo, Ball Boy is a Yiddo, tra-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la’ to Let’s all do the Conga and even a ‘Ball Boy, give us a wave, Ball Boy, Ball Boy, give us a wave.’ Naturally the little tyke obliged. He actually got the same kind of praise at the end of last season when he repatriated our confiscated beach ball from the stewards for the crowd bat around the stands. Can’t remember who we were playing. Man City? Someone like that.

The Anthropomorphic Fanadjuster supports were packing out the away end but it’s all came very clear when they started singing ‘arsenal, arsenal, arsenal’ and ‘3-1 to the arsenal’ in all too easy to understand accents to which we replied, ‘Live round the corner, you only live round the corner, live round the corner, you only live round the corner’ (to the tune of Guantanamera) and when we realised they were Greek Cypriot, we knew exactly how to get under their skin by keeping the tune but changing the lyrics to ‘You’re just a small town in Turkey.’

They sang in loud European style up until our five minute spell at the end of the second half when we put three passed them. They even managed a small rally after their consolation goal. Now if they got the verbal support like that down in their local Finsbury Park stadium, the players in red and white may actually be able to hear their fans.

The story if the night belonged to Jermain Defoe. We sang his name while he warmed up, we sang it when he came on and we screamed it when he scored his goals. There were still echoes of the Lane in full voice after play resumed with the cry of ‘Jermain Defoe is a Yiddo, Jermain Defoe is a Yiddo.’ You could see the smile through the top of his head as he tried to remain professional and get on with the game but he’s told us how it made him feel this morning. He said:

“There was a lot of things said during the summer but when the fans are like that with me I don’t want to go anywhere. If it wasn’t for them I don’t think I’d have been able to score the two goals. They lifted me and gave me energy, it was quite emotional because I’ve not been involved much and the fans were just unbelievable.”

‘It was quite emotional.’ Yes, it certainly was and it makes me well up a little and pretend I’ve got dust in my eye to read his words and know that Jermain Defoe is indeed a Yiddo.

The Bagel.

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