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Pat Healy, Leader of the I
fear for us if they score early as they're masters at killing the game.
Ideally we score first, but not too early! and make
them come out and play. I think we'll win 2-1 with Bent being one of the
goalscorers! Mark Astaire I started supporting Spurs at the time of the
1967 final. Half the family supported Chelsea and the rest Tottenham
including my grandfather who has supported the club since the 20's. So this
is a sentimental final for me and I am taking all four of my kids. Hans Meekers
( I'll
be there, but in fairness I can't see anything but a Chelscum
win.... If they play like they did against us in the Prem,
we're f*cked. You never know, we might play a
blinder and they might be a little less focused on this trophy... living in
hope Laurence Coss: Final Thoughts This
sunday's final will hopefully show how far we have
come in terms of both fitness and tactical acumen since Ramos has taken
charge. I can't offer any
predictions in terms of scoreline, but hope that the Spurs players go into
the game expecting to win, because mental blocks can defeat you before you
even start. Yes, We are definitely
second favourites, but we have a better chance of winning it than Arsenal
(Ha, ha). A win takes us back into Come on You Spurs OneDannyThomas: My
prediction involves a few ifs and buts depending upon the team selection of
both sides. My general feeling is
that, although Chelsea are rightly favourites and therefore largely expected
to win by most neutrals, we have a better chance of winning this cup final
against Chelsea than had we played them at any other time in the last five
years. Its not often we have days like
Sunday so I'm going to allow myself to be uncharacteristically optimistic and
say 2-1 to Spurs. Eric Mallia
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Will Dyson: I was reminded the
other week that my pre-season piece for Topspurs had said “I’ve
never been more confident in us winning a trophy than I am right
now……. so why do I feel sick whenever I think about the
Premiership?” So bearing in mind
we’re already in one final, on our way to another and languishing in
that oh so familiar mid-table obscurity in the Premier League, I’m
feeling like I might just stick my neck out and ignore the fact that I hate
making pre-match predictions on individual games (as, inevitably, my heart
will always rule my head where Spurs are concerned). Win this one game and
we all get some more European awaydays next season. One game against a
team we KNOW that an in-form Spurs side are more than capable of beating. A game where most of
the neutrals want, but don’t really expect us to win. In a stadium packed
with well over our allocation of 31,000 fans, desperate to see us win. I just have a feeling
that it might just be our day…… 3-1. It’s gonna be a nail
biter…. Come on you Spurs! Oh, and as Adebayor isn’t going to be on the pitch on Sunday,
maybe we could all save our breath, not bother singing about him and just get
behind Tottenham? Just a thought….. ;o) Jason “Awayday
Jonah” Barnett I
don't always do predictions, however I think Spurs will win 2-1 with the
goals coming from Keane and Lennon. Diamond White: Ramos is the key man
for us. He knows how to win finals, he has that bit of nous that Jol was
sadly lacking and I think he simply would not allow our players to freeze on
the day. Chelsea are a better side than us, let not kid ourselves otherwise,
but with the right tactics, tempo and concentration we are talented and
capable enough to win this. I'm also a great believer in the law of averages.
We lost our last final, Il Falcone: While it is a shameful
slur on our current standing in the game that Spurs are regarded as
‘underdogs’ going into a cup final with that little club from
Fulham, the weight off Tottenham shoulders can be used to the team’s
advantage. On paper, But fack it, Audere est Facere
and all that. We have good players, and a couple of matchwinners in our ranks. Fitness allowing, we have a
much-improved defence and a general upsurge in stamina and application. And
in the shape of Juande Ramos, we have a potential trump card. If his tenure as Spurs boss has shown
nothing else, it is that he is prepared to make bold, innovative changes to
shape games. He is a proven winner and has the experience of knowing what it
takes to prevail in cup competitions. Avram Grant,
by contrast, is an unknown commodity. Nothing about Chelsea post Mourinho has told us anything about Grant’s
competence, merely that when it comes to grinding out wins and shutting up
shop with the world’s most expensive squad, he can follow Mourinho’s predictable template. Depending on who Grant
picks, there are In
the words of some pundit or other I don’t make predictions and never
will. All I expect is to see Spurs have a go and take risks. Better to go
down fighting and live up to the club’s ethos rather than play the role
of plucky but obliging loser to the big four hegemony. Christopher Dean If we play our game
and go at them from the start we will be in with a chance. What we cannot do
is get drawn in to tight, cat-and-mouse exchange
– They are in a great
run of form, and have Terry, Lampard and Drogba
back to bolster an already formidable line-up. But they have been unconvincing
when up against the top sides this season, and with our performances against
Arsenal in the semi-final and Man Utd in the league fresh in the memory,
there is great cause for optimism. We must play an
attacking game though – it’s the Spurs way, and the only way this
team knows how. Prediction: Spurs 2 Lemmo In
my mind our defence will be the key.
If as many of us are anticipating, Ramos has
been saving King for the game to (hopefully) play along side Woodgate we
should be solid at the back, fitness pending of course. If then the midfield and attack play like
they have been recently I will be confident going into the game. chelski
will be favourites and may be over-confident, which may be their undoing,
especially if we play like we have done recently against united and the goons
in cup games where we have been underestimated. Spurs for the cup: Spurs 3:1 chelski Martin Cloake: We've
had too many nearlys, now is the time to win.
Remember Dave Mackay lifting the Cup in 67 after coming back from two broken
legs. Remember playing them off the
park for 70 minutes of last season's FA Cup quarter final. A win makes
everything possible. It's time for Spurs to show what they're made of. Shane O’Sullivan ( Worried
and anxious about Sunday. My 1st cup final and I desperately don't want it
ruined by defeat. I keep looking for positives but the names in the In
our 125 year history who would ever thought we'd ever be underdogs to that
little club from west Hoping
for a miracle on Sunday and with Ramos at the helm and a fit Ledley in the
back 4 we could be in with a shout of doing something special. If we turn
them over it will be one of the happiest days of my life. Head -
Chelsea Heart
- My Spurs Steve Edmunds ( I
think we are geared up to win. We are a cup side again, a la 'Burkinshaw' but
'Juande' style! 2-1 to us in ET! Guy Edema: I'm like a kid looking
forward to Christmas at the moment and this has certainly been one of the
longer weeks of my life. Will Sunday ever come ? I
cannot wait to see the west side of Wembley Stadium in the lillywhite of Spurs with the flags flying and belting out
the WHL songs we know and love. My only hope is that the boys don't get
overawed by the occasion and 'turn up' on the day and if they do, and we can
be as clinical as we were against the Goons in the second leg of the semi, we
can win 3-1. Come On You Spurs!! TV’s Rabbi Crackers I
honestly believe that the key man on the day is Ramos. I think he has given
the likes of Wenger and All
i ask is that we play to our new found
capabilities. If we do that and are un-phased by the occasion (hence Ramos
being key as this is his job) there is no reason why don’t have a 50 /
50 chance of doing the business. It is also important that all fans of Spurs
enjoy the occasion. Take in the atmosphere, the walk up Wembley way et all,
and hopefully celebrate hard that evening on the High Rd N17!!!! Come On You
Spurs Mario Sergides: "I
really think that we are with a shout to lift the cup on Sunday. Ramos has
the tic tacs to beat Grant and hopefully it will be
the first of many in the Ramos era. 2-1 Spurs. Grahame Howells ( Would
love to raise an old chant – to the tune of the Stones: I’m
gonna tell ya how its gonna be And
I’m gonna tell ya who’s gonna score Berby (Gilzean) 1, Keane
(Greaves) 2 more However,
feel there will be less goals ( (and
now there in reality with a last minute ticket and flights from Jurgen B: There
can only be one winner, and that’s Spurs. The club is desperate for a
trophy – any trophy – unlike Colin Ashby: What do I want to see today? Before I get onto
seeing us winning I want to see us play a cup final that will grace the new
stadium. WE do stutter a bit but on our day we can and should beat anyone in
the Premier League. So to summarise, I want us to play well, no bad
luck- they can have plenty for all I care. I want us to show the world that
we are a good football club, who entertain and score goals. I would love us to
be 3-0 up at half time and win 5-1 again, and bury the ghost. But any score win for us will do. I believe that
today is our day! Richard Pymont I
am going to think positive and say we'll win 2-1 in ninety minutes with a
display along the lines of the Arsenal semi 2nd leg. What
the Chelsea hater in me would like to happen is they totally outplay us but
can't score, then Drogba puts in his own net trying
to clear a corner in the last few seconds- as Kevin Keegan would say " I
would love it, love it" if that happened. Andy Varley
( As
to a prediction: 4-3 Spurs, Juande’s
attacking options will outshine a one dimensional Jonathan Arundale 99
was dull till the diving Dane 2002
we went in as favourite and just never turned up 2008
we are going in as underdog's and lets just hope we shine, a season that
started with so much hope that vanished so quickly, we are now building on
something great, lets just hope the Spanish Magician can get that little
extra out of the 16 on Sunday and take us up the 107 Wembley steps to glory. My
prediction for the final is a Robbie Keane summersault or 2 Come On You Spurs Andy Nicholson Predictions
eh? I'm afraid I never make them for Tottenham because of superstition. However,
Juande seems to have won us all over for his supreme tactical nouse which has softened the blow of the disgraceful way
in which Jol was treated. Whatever happens on Sunday, Spurs will not roll
over and Jim Duggan In a close game, I fancy Spurs to nick it
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